Celia Adler
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| Born | Celia Feinman Adler December 6, 1889 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| Resting place | Mount Hebron Cemetery Yiddish Theatre Section |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1937–1961 |
| Spouse(s) | Lazar Freed Jack Cone Nathan Forman |
Celia Feinman Adler (December 6, 1889 – January 31, 1979) was an American actress, known as the "First Lady of the Yiddish Theatre".[1]
Early life
She was the daughter of Jacob Adler and Dinah Shtettin, and the older half-sister of Stella, Luther Adler and Jacob Adler's five other children.[1][2] Unlike Stella and Luther, who became well known for their work with the Group Theater, their film work and as theorists of the craft of acting, she was almost exclusively a stage actress.[2]
Career
Mainly known for her work in Yiddish theater, where she was associated with the Yiddish Art Theater movement of the 1920s and 1930s,[2] she also gave one of the first theatrical portrayals of a Holocaust survivor, in Luther Adler's 1946 Broadway production of A Flag Is Born (written by Ben Hecht and featuring a 22-year-old Marlon Brando, Stella Adler's prize pupil in method acting).[3] Adler, along with co-stars Paul Muni and Marlon Brando, refused to accept compensation above the Actor's Equity minimum wage because of her commitment to the cause of creating a Jewish State in Israel.[4]
In 1937, Celia Adler starred in the Henry Lynn Yiddish film, Where Is My Child. From 1937-1952, she appeared in several films and television programs.[5] Her last film was a 1985 British documentary with archive footage, Almonds and Raisins,[6] narrated by, among others, Orson Welles, Herschel Bernardi and Seymour Rechzeit.[1]
Personal life
She was married three times,[7] to actor Lazar Freed, theatrical manager Jack Cone, and businessman Nathan Forman.[1]
Death
She is buried in the Yiddish Theatre Section of Mount Hebron Cemetery having died from a heart attack
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Celia Adler at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
- ↑ Bridge of Light (Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds), pages 36,51,111n,209,212,253,306, J. Hoberman, Museum of Modern Art, Published by Shocken Books, 1991, YIVO translations
- ↑ Bridge of Light (Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds), page 358n, J. Hoberman, Museum of Modern Art, Published by Shocken Books, 1991, YIVO translations
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.(subscription required)
External links
- Judith Laikin Elkin, Celia Adler, Jewish Women Encyclopedia
- Celia Adler at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Celia Adler at AllMovie
- Adler Family Papers.; P-890; American Jewish Historical Society, Boston, MA and New York, NY.
- Pages containing links to subscription-only content
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- Articles with hCards
- 1889 births
- 1979 deaths
- American stage actresses
- American television actresses
- Jewish American actresses
- Actresses from New York City
- Yiddish theatre performers
- 20th-century American actresses
- American film actresses
