Paula Strasberg
| Paula Strasberg | |
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| Born | Paula Miller 1911 New York City, New York, United States |
| Died | April 29, 1966 (aged 54) New York City, New York |
Paula Miller Strasberg (1911 – April 29, 1966) was a former stage actress who became actor and teacher Lee Strasberg's second wife, mother of actors John and Susan Strasberg as well as Marilyn Monroe's acting coach and confidante.
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[edit] Career
Her first Broadway credit, as Paula Miller, was in 1927 when she was 16 years old, appearing in The Cradle Song. She appeared in more than 20 more stage roles until Me and Molly in 1948.
She was blacklisted for her membership in the American Communist Party, although her husband was not and apparently suffered no adverse effects on his career. Paula Strasberg would go on to become Marilyn Monroe's acting coach and confidante until Monroe's death in 1962.
[edit] Personal life
Her children John Strasberg and Susan Strasberg were also actors. Susan Strasberg described her mother as a "combination delicatessen, pharmacist, Jewish mother".[1]
[edit] Death
Strasberg died of cancer in 1966 and is interred at Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York.
[edit] References
- ^ Summers, Anthony (1986). Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe. New American Library. p. 173. ISBN 0451400143.
