Maria Ouspenskaya Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
The daughter of a lawyer, Ouspenskaya studied singing at the Warsaw Conservatory and acting at Adasheff's School of the Drama in Moscow. She received her practical training as an actress touring in the Russian provinces. She later joined the Moscow Art Theatre. It was here that she first worked under the direction of the great Konstantin ...
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Perhaps best known for her role as Maleva the Gypsy in The Wolf Man (1941) and _Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man (1943)_.
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Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.
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In 1936 she became the first actress, tied with Gale Sondergaard, of currently 53 actresses to receive an Oscar nomination for their film debut. She was nominated Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Dodsworth (1936).
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Her gravestone at Forest Lawn Cemetery gives her year of birth as 1887, instead of the correct year of 1876.
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Co-founder of the American Laboratory Theater with the Polish actor/film director Richard Boleslawski, she was the first Russian actor from the Moscow Art Theatre to teach the Stanislavski Method in the United States. Her methods greatly influenced her young students Lee Strasberg and Harold Clurman, founders the Group Theater (1931-1940). Strasberg first practiced his very personal variation of the system, now known as "The Method," with the Group actors Stella Adler, Luther Adler, Sanford Meisner, Elia Kazan, Clifford Odets, Franchot Tone, Morris Carnovsky, John Garfield and Robert Lewis. Adler went on to teach Marlon Brando; Meisner taught Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton; Lewis taught Meryl Streep. What the world knows as the psychologically realistic American acting style can be traced back to the enduring influence of Madame Ouspenskaya.
Taught acting at New York's American Laboratory Theatre in the 20s until forming her own acting school, the Maria Ouspenskaya School of Dramatic Arts, in 1929. She moved the studio to Hollywood in the late 30s when her film career began to flourish. Some of her more famous students included John Garfield and acting gurus Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg.
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An actor/instructor with Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre beginning in 1911, she toured throughout Europe during the Communist Revolution and appeared in over 100 plays. When the company departed for Moscow after a tour in the United States, she remained behind.
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Studied opera in both Warsaw and Moscow but switched acting and began studying at the Adasheff's School of Drama at the age of 30.
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She received two supporting Oscar nominations, for the films Dodsworth (1936) and Love Affair (1939). She appeared in the former for only four minutes and in the latter, a total of ten minutes.
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She died of a stroke three days after a lit cigarette set fire to her bed.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Kiss in the Dark
1949
Mme. Karina
Wyoming
1947
Maria (as Mme. Maria Ouspenskaya)
I've Always Loved You
1946
Madame Goronoff (as Mme. Maria Ouspenskaya)
Tarzan and the Amazons
1945
Amazon Queen (as Mme. Maria Ouspenskaya)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
1943
Maleva
Mystery of Marie Roget
1942
Mme. Cecile Roget
Kings Row
1942
Madame von Eln
The Shanghai Gesture
1941
The Amah
The Wolf Man
1941
Maleva
Dance, Girl, Dance
1940
Madame Lydia Basilova
The Man I Married
1940
Frau Gerhardt
The Mortal Storm
1940
Mrs. Hilda Breitner
Waterloo Bridge
1940
Madame Olga Kirowa
Beyond Tomorrow
1940
Madam Tanya
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940
Franziska Speyer
Judge Hardy and Son
1939
Mrs. Judith Volduzzi
The Rains Came
1939
Maharani
Love Affair
1939
Grandmother
Conquest
1937
Countess Pelagia Walewska
Dodsworth
1936
Baroness Von Obersdorf (as Mme. Maria Ouspenskaya)
Tanka-traktirshchitsa
1929
Short
Khveska
1920
Short
Med. assistant's wife
Tsvety zapozdalye
1917
Short
The matchmaker (as Mariya Uspenskaya)
Nichtozhniye
1916
Short
Sverchok na pechi
1915
Short as Mariya Uspenskaya
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Love Affair
1939
performer: "Plaisir d'Amour" 1775 - uncredited
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Meet the Stars #1: Chinese Garden Festival
1940
Documentary short
Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness
2007-2011
TV Series documentary
Maleva
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
$500,000
