Maria Ouspenskaya (July 29, 1876 - December 3, 1949) was a Russian born actress who achieved success as an stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman in Hollywood films. July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. ... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... See also: 1948 in film 1949 1950 in film 1940s in film 1950s in film years in film film Events Top grossing films North America Adams Rib Jolson Sings Again Pinky I Was a Male War Bride, The Snake Pit, Joan of Arc Academy Awards Best Picture: All the... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... ... Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ...

Born in Tula, Russia, Ouspenskaya studied singing in Warsaw and acting in Moscow and performed extensively in Russian theater. A member of the Moscow Art Theatre, she was directed by Konstantin Stanislavski, and for the remainder of her life advocated and taught his method. The Moscow Art Theatre travelled widely throughout Europe and when it arrived in New York in 1922 she decided to remain. 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 the then unknown teenager, Anne Baxter. Tula (Ту́ла) is an industrial city in the European part of Russia located 165 km to the south of Moscow, on the river Upa, at 54°13′ N 37°36′ E. Population (1990): approx. ... Warsaw (Polish: Warszawa, see also other names, in full The Capital City of Warsaw, Polish: Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa) is the capital of Poland and its largest city. ... Moscow (Russian: Москва́, Moskva, IPA: listen â–¶(?)) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed... The Moscow Art Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow, Russia, founded in 1897 by Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. ... Konstantin Stanislavski at a young age Konstantin (Constantin) Stanislavski (Stanislavsky) (January 5, 1863–August 7, 1938) was a Russian theatre and acting innovator. ... Method acting is an acting technique in which actors try to replicate the emotional conditions under which the character operates in real life, in an effort to process an acting role. ... Europe forms the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... Note on spelling: While most Americans use er (as per American spelling conventions), the majority of venues, performers and trade groups for live theatre use re. ... Anne Baxter in The Blue Gardenia (1953) Anne Baxter (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 1985) was an American actress. ...

Although she had appeared in a few Russian silent films many years earlier, Ouspenskaya had avoided making a career in film, until the financial hardship of her school forced her to consider the possibilities of film to help her build her finances. Her first Hollywood role, in Dodsworth (1936) brought her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She received a second nomination in 1939 for her role in Love Affair. She was also best known for her portrayal of Maleva, the old Roma fortuneteller in the 1941 horror classic The Wolf Man. Her other successes included The Rains Came (1939), Waterloo Bridge (1940), The Mortal Storm (1940), and Kings Row (1942). Despite her two Academy Award nominations her later films were inferior productions such as Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) and Tarzan and the Amazons (1945). Dodsworth is a novel by Sinclair Lewis, published in 1929. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... There is also a musical group named Love Affair. ... The Roma people (pronounced rahma; singular Rom; sometimes Rroma, Rrom), along with the closely related Sinti people, are commonly known as Gypsies in English. ... For prophecy in the context of revealed religions see Prophet. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Wolf Man is a 1941 horror film written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner, starring Lon Chaney Jr, Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Bellamy, Patrick Knowles, Bela Lugosi, and Maria Ouspenskaya. ... The Rains Came is the title of novel by Louis Bromfield and the 1939 20th Century Fox film version which followed it. ... The film Waterloo Bridge is a popular Broadway drama written by Robert E. Sherwood and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Mortal Storm was a 1940 film that was one of the most direct anti-Nazi Hollywood films released before the American entry into the Second World War. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Kings Row is a 1942 film which tells the story of a group of children who grow up leading supposedly idyllic lives in a small town with disturbing secrets. ... This article is about the year. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Ouspenskaya died from a stroke several days after receiving severe burns in a house fire, which she had caused by falling asleep while smoking a cigarette. A stroke or cerebrovascular accident (CVA) occurs when the blood supply to a part of the brain is suddenly interrupted. ...

External links

• Maria Ouspenskaya at the Internet Movie Database