Ironically, at first Strasberg was not asked, but by 1951 he had become its artistic director.

Weill was asked to develop the project by the socially-conscious Group Theatre, but much of his music was scrapped when original director Harold Clurman was replaced by Lee Strasberg, who opted to emphasize text over music.

Padres promotion director Andy Strasberg knew Smith could perform backflips, but that he only did them during practice before fans entered the stadium.

Clurman was the scholar of the group — he knew multiple languages, read widely, and listened to a broad array of music ( Smith 16 ), while Strasberg dealt with acting and directing, and Crawford dealt with the business side of things.

It included such actors as Franchot Tone, John Garfield, Ruth Nelson, Art Smith, Luther Adler, Sanford Meisner, Paula Strasberg and Carnovsky's wife, Phoebe Brand.

Stella Adler, an actress and acting teacher whose fame was cemented by the success of her students Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and Robert De Niro, also broke with Strasberg after she studied with Stanislavski himself, the only Group Theatre teacher to do so, after he had modified many of his early ideas about acting.

To illustrate the difference between the two methods, Stanislavski has the actor ask himself, " What would I do if I were in this circumstance " while Strasberg adopted a modification, " What would motivate me, the actor, to behave in the way the character does?

Strasberg wrote: " At the studio, we do not sit around and feed each other's egos.

He must somehow be able to convince himself of the rightness of what he is doing in order to do things fully on the stage. According to film critic / author Mel Gussow, Strasberg required that an actor, when preparing for a role, delve not only into the character's life in the play, but also, " ar more importantly, into the character's life before the curtain rises.

He claimed to have abhorred Lee Strasberg's teachings: " After I had some success, Lee Strasberg tried to take credit for teaching me how to act.

Pacino studied " method acting " under acting coach Lee Strasberg, who later appeared with Pacino in the films The Godfather Part II and in ... And Justice for All.

" During another interview he added, " It was exciting to work for him Strasberg because he was so interesting when he talked about a scene or talked about people.

Newman later attended the Yale School of Drama for one year before moving to New York City to study under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.

In fact, most post-1930 acting philosophies have been strongly influenced by Method acting, and it continues to be taught at schools around the world, including the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York and Los Angeles, the Actors Studio Drama School in New York, the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York and Los Angeles, the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, Calif., HB Studio in New York, Le Studio Jack Garfein in Paris and American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

Hal is wary about going to the picnic, but Alan nudges him into it, saying Hal's " date " for the picnic will be Madge's bookish younger sister Millie ( Susan Strasberg ), who is quickly drawn to Hal's cheerful demeanor and charisma.

Millie, the independently minded girl who memorizes Shakespeare sonnets and rebels against her older sister, was an early role for Susan Strasberg, the daughter of prominent ' Method ' drama teacher Lee Strasberg.

Stage 1 also was used for the filming of one of Orson Welles ' last films, The Other Side of the Wind, with John Huston, Oja Kodar, Susan Strasberg, Bob Random and Peter Bogdanovich.

Among the people becoming disenchanted with the Guild and turning to the Lab for a more radical, challenging environment were Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg, Franchot Tone, Cheryl Crawford and Harold Clurman.

In fact, shortly after the premiere in 1974, Lansky phoned Strasberg and congratulated him on a good performance ( Strasberg was nominated for an Oscar for his role ), but added " You could've made me more sympathetic.

This is due in large part to the Actors Studio on West 44th, which rose to prominence under Lee Strasberg and is famed for its method acting style.

The film represents the second time Pacino was nominated for these awards in a movie in which he acted alongside his famed acting teacher, Lee Strasberg, the other being The Godfather Part II.

* In the Cards — Adapted by Ross Thomas for Tales of the Unexpected, July 14, 1985 ( Season 8, Episode 2 ), starring Susan Strasberg, Max Gail ( famous for his role as Detective Stan " Wojo " Wojciehowicz on the television sitcom Barney Miller ), Elaine Giftos, and Kenneth Tigar.

Crawford suggested that Harold Clurman, then a play reader for the Guild, invite Odets to a meeting to discuss new theatre concepts they were developing with Lee Strasberg.

Later, during the first full season ( 1933 – 34 ), Men in White, written by Sidney Kingsley and directed by Lee Strasberg, became the Group's first financial success and also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

As an actor, Strasberg is probably best known for his role as gangster Hyman Roth in The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ).

Young Strasberg took refuge in voracious reading and the companionship of his older brother, Zalmon, whose death in the influenza epidemic of 1918 was so traumatic for the young Strasberg that, despite being a straight-A student, he dropped out of high school.

Philip Loeb, casting director of the Theater Guild, sensed that Strasberg could act, although he was not yet thinking of a fulltime acting career, and was still working as a shipping clerk and bookkeeper for a wig company.

By the end of the 20th century, critics were praising its resonant portrayal of small-town life in America during the Eisenhower era, along with its melodic soundtrack and strong performances by a supporting cast, including Arthur O ' Connell ( reprising the role he played during Picnics successful run on Broadway ) and a young Susan Strasberg.

Strasberg, during a regular lecture shortly after this accident, discussed Dean.

Fredo later betrays Michael when approached by Johnny Ola ( Dominic Chianese ), an agent of rival gangster Hyman Roth ( Lee Strasberg ), during the negotiation of a business deal between Roth's organization and the Corleone family.

Apparently she had caught the infection after a trip to New York City during which she had visited her acting coach, Lee Strasberg of The Actors Studio, to go over her role.

* In the spring of 1985 Ms. Lortel received the first annual Lee Strasberg Lifetime Achievement in Theatre Award during the 30th Anniversary celebration of the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

In 2008, Andy Strasberg, Bob Thompson and Tim Wiles ( from the Baseball Hall of Fame ) wrote a comprehensive book on the history of the song, Baseball's Greatest Hit: The Story of ' Take Me Out to the Ball Game.

During later interviews he spoke about Strasberg and the Studio's effect on his career.

In Kazan's autobiography, Kazan writes of the " lasting impact on him of the Group ," noting in particular, Lee Strasberg and Harold Clurman as " father figures ", along with his close friendship with playwright Clifford Odets.

Meisner broke from Strasberg on the subjects of sense memory and affective memory, basic techniques espoused by Strasberg through which actors access their own personal experiences in order to identify with and portray the emotional lives of their characters.

Some modern acting theorists and teachers have noted that Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner, Stella Adler, and others often misunderstood each other's work, and that their criticisms were based on this misunderstanding.

Meisner often said that Strasberg actors were too focused on themselves, but Strasberg trained many of the most respected actors of the 20th century.

* The character Hyman Roth, portrayed by Lee Strasberg, and certain aspects of the main character Michael Corleone from the film The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ), are based on Lansky.

Baldwin also knew Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Billy Dee Williams, Huey P. Newton, Nikki Giovanni, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet ( with whom he campaigned on behalf of the Black Panther Party ), Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, Rip Torn, Alex Haley, Miles Davis, Amiri Baraka, Martin Luther King, Jr., Margaret Mead, Josephine Baker, Allen Ginsberg and Maya Angelou.

It was directed by Lee Strasberg ( and a version of it was preserved on film ).

Also that year Adams played the role of " Bomber " the paper boy in the widely popular film adaptation of Picnic ( 1955 ) which was mostly filmed on location in Kansas and starred William Holden, Kim Novak and Susan Strasberg.

Susan Strasberg, who had worked with him 13 years earlier on the hit film Picnic and was living in Italy, encountered a thoroughly demoralized Adams in a Rome bar.

This was acting of a sort that one rarely saw on the American stage ... here there was little stress on the psychology of the characters or their interactions .... Strasberg was galvanized.

Its privacy is guarded ferociously against the casual intruder, the seeker of curiousities, and the exploiter ... he Studio helps actors to meet the enemy within ... and contributes greatly to Strasberg's utterly pragmatic views on training the actor and solving his problems ... is kept deliberately modest in its circumstances, its essence being the private room where Lee Strasberg and some talented actors can work.

Historian Sam Staggs writes that " Marlon Brando was the hot, sleek engine on the Actors Studio express ", and called him " embodiment of Method acting ", but Brando was trained primarily by Stella Adler, a former member of the Group Theatre who had a falling out with Strasberg over his interpretations of Stanislavsky's ideas.

I sometimes went to the Actors Studio on Saturday mornings because Elia Kazan was teaching, and there were usually a lot of good-looking girls, but Strasberg never taught me acting.