Maria Alekseyevna Ouspenskaya (Russian: МариÑ
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a Russian actress and acting teacher. She achieved success as a stage
actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman in
Hollywood films.Ouspenskaya was born in Tula, Russian Empire, and
studied singing in Warsaw, Poland, and acting in Moscow. She was a
founding member of the First Studio, a theatre studio of the
world-famous Moscow Art Theatre. There she was trained by Konstantin
Stanislavsky and his assistant Leopold Sulerzhitsky.The Moscow Art
Theatre traveled widely throughout Europe, and when it arrived in New
York City in , Ouspenskaya decided to stay there. She performed
regularly on Broadway over the next decade. She taught acting at the
American Laboratory Theatre and in , together with Richard
Boleslawski, her colleague from the Moscow Art Theatre, she founded
the School of Dramatic Art in New York City. One of Ouspenskaya's
students at the school during this period was Anne Baxter, then an
unknown teenager.Although she had appeared in a few Russian silent
films many years earlier, Ouspenskaya stayed away from Hollywood until
her school's financial problems forced her to look for ways to repair
her finances. According to ads from Popular Song magazine in the s,
around this time Ouspenskaya also opened the Maria Ouspenskaya School
of Dance on Vine Street in Los Angeles. Her pupils included Marge
Champion, the model for Disney's Snow White.
Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ ÐµÐµÐ²Ð½Ð° Ð£Ñ Ð¿ÐµÐ½Ñ ÐºÐ°Ñ ; July , â€" December , ) was
a Russian actress and acting teacher. She achieved success as a stage
actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman in
Hollywood films.Ouspenskaya was born in Tula, Russian Empire, and
studied singing in Warsaw, Poland, and acting in Moscow. She was a
founding member of the First Studio, a theatre studio of the
world-famous Moscow Art Theatre. There she was trained by Konstantin
Stanislavsky and his assistant Leopold Sulerzhitsky.The Moscow Art
Theatre traveled widely throughout Europe, and when it arrived in New
York City in , Ouspenskaya decided to stay there. She performed
regularly on Broadway over the next decade. She taught acting at the
American Laboratory Theatre and in , together with Richard
Boleslawski, her colleague from the Moscow Art Theatre, she founded
the School of Dramatic Art in New York City. One of Ouspenskaya's
students at the school during this period was Anne Baxter, then an
unknown teenager.Although she had appeared in a few Russian silent
films many years earlier, Ouspenskaya stayed away from Hollywood until
her school's financial problems forced her to look for ways to repair
her finances. According to ads from Popular Song magazine in the s,
around this time Ouspenskaya also opened the Maria Ouspenskaya School
of Dance on Vine Street in Los Angeles. Her pupils included Marge
Champion, the model for Disney's Snow White.
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