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Maria Ouspenskaya (; July 29, 1876 – December 3, 1949) was an Oscar
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
-nominated Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n actress who achieved success as a stage actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 as a young woman in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, and as an elderly woman in Hollywood film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
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Ouspenskaya was born in Tula, Russia
Tula, Russia

Tula is an industrial types of inhabited localities in Russia in the European part of Russia, located 193 km south of Moscow, on the river Upa River....
 to a lawyer father. She studied singing in Warsaw and acting in Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
 and performed extensively in Russian theater.

A member of the Moscow Art Theatre
Moscow Art Theatre

Moscow Art Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow, Russia, founded in 1897 by Constantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. It was conceived as a venue for Naturalism theatre, in contrast to the melodramas that were Russia's dominant form of theatre at the time....
, Ouspenskaya was directed by Constantin Stanislavski, and for the remainder of her life advocated and taught his 'system', which in Amercia became 'method acting
Method acting

Method acting is a technique in which actors aim to engender in themselves the thoughts and emotions of their characters in an effort to create a lifelike performance....
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Maria Ouspenskaya (; July 29, 1876 – December 3, 1949) was an Oscar
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
-nominated Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n actress who achieved success as a stage actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 as a young woman in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, and as an elderly woman in Hollywood film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
s.

Ouspenskaya was born in Tula, Russia
Tula, Russia

Tula is an industrial types of inhabited localities in Russia in the European part of Russia, located 193 km south of Moscow, on the river Upa River....
 to a lawyer father. She studied singing in Warsaw and acting in Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
 and performed extensively in Russian theater.

A member of the Moscow Art Theatre
Moscow Art Theatre

Moscow Art Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow, Russia, founded in 1897 by Constantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. It was conceived as a venue for Naturalism theatre, in contrast to the melodramas that were Russia's dominant form of theatre at the time....
, Ouspenskaya was directed by Constantin Stanislavski, and for the remainder of her life advocated and taught his 'system', which in Amercia became 'method acting
Method acting

Method acting is a technique in which actors aim to engender in themselves the thoughts and emotions of their characters in an effort to create a lifelike performance....
'. The Moscow Art Theatre travelled widely throughout Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 and when it arrived in New York in 1922 she decided to stay there. She performed regularly on Broadway over the next decade, and in 1929 she founded the School of Dramatic Art in New York. One of Ouspenskaya's students at the school during this period was Anne Baxter
Anne Baxter

Anne Baxter was an Academy Award-winning United States actress....
, 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. Her first Hollywood role in Dodsworth
Dodsworth (film)

Dodsworth is a 1936 in film United States drama film directed by William Wyler. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his Dodsworth of Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis....
 (1936) brought her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
. She received a second nomination in 1939 for her role in Love Affair
Love Affair

Love Affair is a romantic film starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer and featuring Maria Ouspenskaya. It was directed by Leo McCarey and written by Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart, based on a story by McCarey and Mildred Cram....
. She portrayed Maleva, an old Gypsy
Roma people

The Romani are an ethnic group of Europe tracing their Origins of the Romani people to middle kingdoms of India.The Romani are Romani diaspora with their largest concentrated populations in Europe, especially the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe, with more recent diaspora populations in the Americas and, to a lesser extent, in other par...
 fortuneteller in the horror films The Wolf Man (1941) and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, released in 1943, is an United States monster film horror film produced by Universal Studios starring Lon Chaney, Jr....
 (1943). Her other successes included The Rains Came
The Rains Came

The Rains Came is the title of novel by Louis Bromfield, published in 1937 in literature, as well as the 1939 in film 20th Century Fox film version which followed it....
 (1939), Waterloo Bridge (1940), The Mortal Storm
The Mortal Storm

The Mortal Storm is a 1940 in film film that was one of the most direct anti-Nazism Hollywood films released before the American entry into the World War II....
 (1940), and Kings Row
Kings Row

Kings Row is a 1942 film which tells the story of a group of youths who grow up leading supposedly idyllic lives in a small town with disturbing secrets....
 (1942).

Ouspenskaya died from a stroke
Stroke

A stroke is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to a disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. According to the National Stroke Association, a "stroke" occurs when a blood clot blocks and artery or a blood vessel breaks, interrupting blood flow to an area of the brain....
 several days after receiving severe burns in a house fire, which she allegedly caused by falling asleep while smoking a cigarette. Her interment was located in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale

Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately-owned cemetery in Glendale, California, Los Angeles County, California, in the United States. It is the original location of Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries, a chain of cemeteries in Southern California ....
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