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- The son of a
- wealthy
- businessman,
- Stanislavsky was
- an amateur actor
- before setting up
- a progressive
- popular theatre
- company, the
- Society of Art and
- Literature, which
- evolved into the
- Moscow Arts
- Theater
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- Stanislavsky (center) set up the Moscow Arts Theater with the great
- actor/producer Vladimir Nemirov-Danchenko (far left). The theater
- became famous for Stanislavsky's productions of the plays of
- Chekhov (center, reading), many of which were premiered there
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- Stanislavsky's
- guide to the
- Method, An Actor
- Prepares, became
- required reading
- for the profession
- in Europe, but
- even more so in
- America where,
- after the war, his
- teachings were
- adopted by the
- Actors Studio and
- began to have
- an influence
- on Hollywood
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- It was Marlon
- Brando's "T-shirt
- and mumbles"
- performance in A
- Streetcar Named
- Desire in 1949
- which brought
- the Method to
- prominence and
- prompted a
- debate on the
- quality of
- Stanislavsky's
- theatrical legacy
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