Mary Tarcai (July , â€" September , in New York City) was an
actress. She was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, immigrated to
the United States with her family when she was a child and grew up in
Cleveland, Ohio.She began her career as an actress at the Neighborhood
Playhouse in New York City and later taught there. Her background was
in the Stanislavski method and in New York at the beginning of her
career she worked with Isaac Boleslavsky and Maria Ouspenskaya.After
leaving the Neighborhood Playhouse she went to Atlantic City, where
she started her own theater and produced her own shows. She then went
to Los Angeles and worked with the Actors' Lab for seven years and
also as an assistant to many film directors.Returning to New York in ,
she began teaching acting, both at the Neighborhood Playhouse and
privately. She was one of the first to teach classes centering on cold
readings. Her students over the years included Shirley MacLaine,
Florence Henderson, Charlotte Rae, Edmond O'Brien, Valerie Harper,
Raymond Burr, Julie Newmar, Ralph Waite, Lilia Skala, Ann B. Davis.
She was married to Arthur H. Singer, a writer on the original Star
Trek series, until his death in .
actress. She was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, immigrated to
the United States with her family when she was a child and grew up in
Cleveland, Ohio.She began her career as an actress at the Neighborhood
Playhouse in New York City and later taught there. Her background was
in the Stanislavski method and in New York at the beginning of her
career she worked with Isaac Boleslavsky and Maria Ouspenskaya.After
leaving the Neighborhood Playhouse she went to Atlantic City, where
she started her own theater and produced her own shows. She then went
to Los Angeles and worked with the Actors' Lab for seven years and
also as an assistant to many film directors.Returning to New York in ,
she began teaching acting, both at the Neighborhood Playhouse and
privately. She was one of the first to teach classes centering on cold
readings. Her students over the years included Shirley MacLaine,
Florence Henderson, Charlotte Rae, Edmond O'Brien, Valerie Harper,
Raymond Burr, Julie Newmar, Ralph Waite, Lilia Skala, Ann B. Davis.
She was married to Arthur H. Singer, a writer on the original Star
Trek series, until his death in .
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