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Paula Strasberg

American actress

Summary

American actress

Field	Value
name	Paula Strasberg
occupation	Actress, acting coach
birthname	Pearl Miller
alias	Pauline Miller
spouse

children	Susan Strasberg
John Strasberg
birth_date
birth_place	New York City, U.S.
death_date
death_place	New York City, U.S.

John Strasberg

Paula Strasberg (born Pearl Miller; March 8, 1909 – April 29, 1966) was an American stage actress. She became actor and teacher Lee Strasberg's second wife and mother of actors John and Susan Strasberg, as well as Marilyn Monroe's acting coach and confidante.

Career

Born Pearl Miller to a Jewish family, she made her debut on Broadway in 1927, appearing in The Cradle Song. Two years later, she married her first husband, Harry Stein, whom she divorced in 1935. The union was childless. She appeared in more than 20 stage roles until Me and Molly in 1948. A life member of the Actors Studio, she married Lee Strasberg in 1935, just days after her first marriage ended.

She was later blacklisted for her membership in the American Communist Party, although her husband was not a member and suffered no adverse effects on his career. She went on to become Marilyn Monroe's acting coach and confidante until Monroe's death in 1962, supplanting Natasha Lytess. In the 2011 film, My Week With Marilyn, Strasberg is played by Zoe Wanamaker.

Personal life

Her children, Susan Strasberg (1938–1999) and John Strasberg (born 1941), were also actors. Susan described her mother as a "combination delicatessen, pharmacist, Jewish mother".

Death

Paula Strasberg died of bone marrow cancer at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan on April 29, 1966, aged 57, and is interred at Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York.

References

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(1966-05-02). "Paula Strasberg Dies". [[The Sarasota Herald-Tribune]].
Meyers, Jeffrey. (January 19, 2012). "The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe". University of Illinois Press; 1st edition.
Garfield, David. (1980). "A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio". MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc..
(4 April 2022). "Method or Madness: Marilyn at the Actors Studio".
Summers, Anthony. (1986). "Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe". New American Library.
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