Maria Ouspenskaya
Maria Ouspenskaya (Russian Мария Алексеевна Успенская / Marija Alexeyevna Uspenskaja; born July 29, 1876 in Tula, † December 3, 1949 in Los Angeles ) was an American stage and film actress and drama teacher of Russian descent.
Life and work
Maria Ouspenskaya first wanted to be an opera singer and studied classical singing at the Conservatory of Warsaw, but wrote later one at the prestigious Adashjew Academy of Drama in Moscow. First, she traveled with migrant theaters by the Russian province until she accepted an engagement at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre.
There they feilte under the guidance of Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky on her acting. Between 1915 and 1922, the actress starred in several Russian silent films before 1922 for a guest performance by the " Art Theatre " no longer returned to the United States. In 1924 Richard took Boleslawski, a study and fellow actor of the Moscow Times, Ouspenskaya at the recently founded by him acting school American Laboratory Theatre in New York - in short " The Lab ". By 1929 Ouspenskaya taught here with her theater career young thespians as adopted in Stanislavsky "method". In 1932 Maria Ouspenskaya founded the still existing School of Dramatic Art in New York. To help this ambitious project from a severe financial crisis, she took her first role in 1936 in Hollywood at. She played under the direction of William Wyler in a time of love, time to say goodbye. The film is based on the eponymous play by Sinclair Lewis, in which Mary Ouspenskaya had played on stage. For her performance she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Three years later, she was nominated in this category again for her appearance in peace lots of love. Her most famous appearances include Mary Walevska next to Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer and your first man on the side of Vivien Leigh. The actress died in 1949 at the consequences of an apartment fire.
A last of Maria Ouspenskayas students at the New York School of Dramatic Art was Anne Bancroft. In Mel Brooks Dracula - Dead and Loving It plays Bancroft a prophetic gypsy named " Ouspenskaya ", a tribute to comparable roles of Maria Ouspenskaya in The Wolf Man and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.