Jacob Adler
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Jacob Pavlovich Adler was an American actor and star of Yiddish theater, first in Odessa, and later in London and in New York City's Yiddish Theater District.
Adler in 1920
from right: Jacob P. Adler, Zigmund Feinman, Zigmund Mogulesko, Rudolf Marx, Mr. Krastoshinsky and David Kessler, 1888
Jacob Adler
Jacob Adler in 1902
Stella Adler
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Stella Adler was an American actress and acting teacher.
Jacob Adler
…would form the core of the persona he defined as the "Grand Jew". Nearly all his family went into theater; probably the most famous was his daughter Stella, who taught method acting to, among others, Marlon Brando. Adler was born in Odessa in the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). Adler's father, Feivel…
Adler in Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Luther and Stella Adler, 1936