Word: berghofs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Right Idea. Divorced from Ferrer in 1948, Uta later became the wife of Herbert Berghof. An accomplished actor (The Andersonmlle Trial, Krapp's Last Tape), Berghof is equally appreciated within his profession as a teacher. With Uta he runs the Herbert Berghof Studio in Greenwich Village, an acting school with a student body of 900 and a roster of celebrated alumni like Geraldine Page and Fritz Weaver...
Raisins & Technique. Under Herbert Berghof and his wife Uta Hagen-whose school is less publicized than Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio, but equally esteemed by many-Irene practiced with awesome intensity. Often she phoned fellow actors and routed them out of bed to practice scenes with her at 6 a.m. She was so oblivious to everything but acting that when one fellow student brought her a bunch of white grapes, she set them on a table in her apartment, next noticed them eight months later when the friend returned and exclaimed...
Between more parts in ambitious Broadway flops (Miss Lonelyhearts, Summer of the 17th Doll), she turned away from the Berghof school's advanced classes, went into the basic-technique courses and joined the beginners. Eventually, Berghof hired her to teach the technique courses herself to twelve classes a week and more than 200 students. Last spring, after 47 others had either tried for or turned down the part, she was chosen for Tomorrow in London. Said Irene Dailey last week: "I shall be 40 in September. I have nothing, really nothing. I'm not married. I have...
...Andersonville Trial (by Saul Levitt) took place before a U.S. military court in August 1865. The defendant, Henry Wirz (Herbert Berghof), had been superintendent of the notorious Andersonville, Ga. prison, where some 40,000 Union soldiers lived in unutterable filth and want, and where 14,000 of them died...