1. Maria Alekseyevna Ouspenskaya was a Russian actress and acting teacher.
14 Facts About Maria Ouspenskaya
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Maria Ouspenskaya achieved success as a stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an older woman in Hollywood films.
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Maria Ouspenskaya was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Dodsworth and Love Affair.
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Maria Ouspenskaya studied singing in Warsaw and acting in Moscow.
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Maria Ouspenskaya was a founding member of the First Studio, a theatre studio of the Moscow Art Theatre.
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The Moscow Art Theatre traveled widely throughout Europe, and when it arrived in New York City in 1922, Ouspenskaya decided to stay there.
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Maria Ouspenskaya performed regularly on Broadway over the next decade.
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Maria Ouspenskaya taught acting to Lee Strasberg among others, at the American Laboratory Theatre, and in 1929, together with Richard Boleslawski, her colleague from the Moscow Art Theatre, she founded the School of Dramatic Art in New York City.
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One of Maria Ouspenskaya's students at the school was an unknown teenaged Anne Baxter.
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Maria Ouspenskaya's pupils included Marge Champion, the model for Disney's Snow White.
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Maria Ouspenskaya portrayed Maleva, an old Romani fortuneteller in the horror films The Wolf Man and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, both with Lon Chaney Jr.
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Maria Ouspenskaya's films depicting World War II were Frank Borzage's The Mortal Storm, and Darryl F Zanuck's The Man I Married.
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Maria Ouspenskaya was buried in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
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In February 2024, an award-winning documentary She-Wolf in Hollywood: The Story of Maria Ouspenskaya became available on YouTube.