Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (775 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00CKNWAO4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 122 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Over her long career, both in New York and Hollywood, she offered her vast acting knowledge to generations of actors, including Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and Robert De Niro. Stella Adler was one of the 20th Century's greatest figures. She is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history. (Applause Books). The great voice finally ended in the early Nineties, but her decades of experience and teaching have been brilliantly caught and encapsulated by Howard Kissel in the twenty-two le
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Though mostly monologs, they include enough exercises and student responses to get the flavor of Adler's work. This is required reading for anyone interested in theater practice.DThomas E. Coming from a theatrical family and having studied with Stanislavsky, she became an old-fashioned autocratic teacher determined to pass on the best that she knows. The lessons are graduated from very basic matters to quite complex issues of textual analysis and decorum. She was certainly the best of her generation. Here Kissel (David Merrick) has taken tapes, transcriptions, notebooks, and other sources to reconstruct an acting course in 22 lessons. Luddy, Salem State Coll., MA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal This second collection of Adler's papers precedes the material found in