Stella Adler and Marlon Brando

Yiddish Book Center
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Published 2017-09-15
Ellen Adler Oppenheim, daughter of actress Stella Adler, talks about seeing her mother teach and her memories of some of the most successful students.

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All Comments (12)
  • @cgab12
    He did have an amazing sense of humor, his autobiography was down right hilarious at times.
  • @romanclay1913
    Marlon Brando is the greatest actor because of his unmatched acting range. From 1950-60 he played a paraplegic in THE MEN, Stanley Kowalski in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, a Mexican revolutionary in VIVA ZAPATA, Mark Anthony, a Hell's Angel in THE WILD ONE. Terry Malloy in ON THE WATERFRONT, Napoleon in DESIREE, sang and danced in GUYS AND DOLLS, a Japanese man in TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON, a contrite nazi in YOUNG LIONS then directed ONE EYED JACKS.
  • @skidmarkman321
    I was fortunate to have sat in on her classes in Los Angeles in the 1970s, my Uncle was an actor, Kurt Grayson, a character actor from the 1960s through the 1990's. Kurt was The Tijuana smalls man in the TV ads, buses billboards, magazines, it was US Cigars most successful ad campaign, it introduced a new generation to cigars, Clint Eastwood smoked them in films they were said to look like marijuana to some I have read, the competition for the job was intense, Kurt did many commercials and almost every TV show Steven J Cannell productions made and much more, he was Doggo in The Octagon and the 1st pilot shot down in the battle of Midway with Charleston Heston and Glen Ford
  • @DCFunBud
    She looks like her mother. Her mother was a great beauty.
  • @garrison6863
    Brando never liked Lee Strasberg and always said it was Adler who taught him acting. Her ideas were different than Strasberg's pure method acting.