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...Manhattan flounced Marilyn. She incorporated herself while skeptics snickered. She studied "to improve myself" under Director Lee Strasberg at Manhattan's Actors' Studio. She caused near-riots when she appeared at Broadway openings...
Manhattan critics, hailing the birth of a new star, called Susan Strasberg "enchanting," "radiant" and "breathtaking." A high-school senior at Professional Children's School, Susie stands 5 ft., weighs 96 Ibs. No theatrical novice, she began her career at 14 in an off-Broadway production. She played Juliet on TV when she was only 15, and has already appeared in two movies, The Cobweb and the forthcoming Picnic. Though she was swamped with movie offers after opening night, she will not do another one until next summer...
...diary or so public as a stage, and the two, at times, refuse to dovetail. Again, certain loudspeakered diary passages take on the tone of bulletins. But a play that very largely succeeds with its material everywhere respects it, and in her limelighted Broadway debut, 17-year-old Susan Strasberg plays Anne with obvious talent and much animation and appeal...
Susie's mother is Actress Paula Miller, a knowledgeable guide ("Susie didn't start studying till she was 14 because I loathe child acting"). Her father is Director Lee Strasberg, cofounder of the Group Theater, director of the Actors' Studio, leading U.S. exponent of the Stanislavsky ("live the role") method of acting. He has helped develop many stars, e.g., Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Julie Harris, claims that one of his current students, Marilyn Monroe, will some day amaze skeptics with her dramatic range. Daughter Susie got little formal help from him ("I don't take students...
...native of New Mexico, has been practicing her style since 1949, when she began studying at the Actors Studio with Broadway Directors Elia (A Streetcar Named Desire) Kazan and Lee (Men in White) Strasberg, both of whom worked with the old Group Theater and became two of the ablest craftsmen to influence the U.S. stage. Television jobs and a few good on-and off-Broadway roles helped Kim along. Finally, as the homely, dry-tongued adolescent sister in Picnic (TIME, March 2, 1953), she won both the New York Drama Critics' and Donaldson awards as the year...