| Maryam Nouhy |
An American actress born in New York, USA to theatrical actor parents Jacob and Sarah Adler, the youngest of six children who all appeared on Broadway. She made her stage debut at the age of 4 at her family-owned theater, and at 18 years old she appeared on stage in London. She studied in NYU and afterwards spent 10 years in vaudeville and Yiddish theaters across the Americas and Europe, and appeared in around 100 plays, then appeared on Broadway.
She left for Russia to study theater at the Moscow Art Theatre and came back to work in Hollywood. She appeared in 3 films: Love on Toast (1937), Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), and My Girl Tisa (1948). She then decided to found the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City, which teaches method acting. So many great actors studied there such as Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, and Elizabeth Taylor. She died of heart failure on 21 December 1992 in Los Angeles, California.
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