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On the day Lee Strasberg died, February 17, 1982, Stella Adler asked actors in her class at the Stella Adler Studio to stand for a moment of silence. After the stunned quiet, so the gossip goes, she said, “It will take the theatre decades to recover from the damage that Lee Strasberg inflicted on American actors” (a variant of this quote in Kazan, A Life, 143).
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Chinoy, H.K. (2013). Strasberg versus Adler. In: Wilmeth, D.B., Barranger, M.S. (eds) The Group Theatre. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137294609_7
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