Also: Teacher, stage director

* 1902, New York, NY - † 21.12.1992, Los Angeles, CA

One of America's foremost acting teachers, and one of few Americans to have studied the "method" with its originator, Constantin Stanislavsky; Adler's former students include Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty and Harvey Keitel.

Adler began her career with the thater company of her father, the legendary Yiddish actor Jacob Adler, before appearing on Broadway and later joining the Group Theater at its inception in 1931. Her most famous performance was in the Group Theater's production of Clifford Odet's Awake and Sing in the 1930s. By the mid-1940s, after a schism with Lee Strasberg over his interpretation of the Stanislavsky method, she turned to teaching, first at the Dramatic Workshop of the New School for Social Research in New York and, in 1949, full-time at her own school.

1937   LOVE ON TOAST  

         Bovenstaande foto werd gemaakt door haar publiciteit fotograaf in 1937 t.b.v. deze film

1941   SHADOW OF THE THIN MAN

1948   MY GIRL TISA