![]() She kept her students spellbound by raging, purring, cursing, cajoling and, from time to time, complimenting. Mercurial, with honey-blond hair and expressive gray-green eyes, Miss Adler was aristocratic, physically and vocally, and her teaching was passionate, scholarly and volatile, delivered with evangelical showmanship, wicked wit and pungent phrases. She also shaped the careers of thousands of grateful performers, including Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty and Robert De Niro, at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting, which she founded in Manhattan in 1949 and where she taught for decades. She made her stage debut at the age of 4, appeared in nearly 200 plays in the United States and abroad, and occasionally directed productions. ![]() ![]() Miss Adler was born into a celebrated acting family rooted in the Yiddish theater. She died of heart failure, said Irene Gilbert, the director of the Stella Adler Conservatory in Hollywood. Stella Adler, an exponent of Method acting whom many considered the leading American teacher of her craft, died yesterday at her home in Los Angeles. ![]()
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