Full Name Paulina Miller Role Actress | Name Paula Strasberg Occupation Actress, acting coach | |
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Died April 29, 1966, New York City, New York, United States Children Susan Strasberg, John Strasberg Similar People | ||
Grandchildren Jennifer Robin Jones | ||
Marilyn monroe and paula strasberg
Paula Strasberg (March 8, 1909 – April 29, 1966) was a former stage actress who 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.
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- Career
- Personal life
- Death
- Filmography
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Marilyn monroe paula strasberg relaxing in the 20th century fox dressing room 1962
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.
Personal life
Her children, Susan (1938-1999) and John (born 1941), were also actors. Susan Strasberg 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. She was survived by her husband, their two children, and a younger sister, Beatrice.
