Description

Description: Maria Ouspenskaya (1876-1949) studied singing at the Warsaw Conservatory and acting at Adasheff’s School of Drama in Russia. At the Moscow Art Theatre she worked with the director Konstantin Stanislavski, whose method she promoted thereon. She became a Broadway actress and founded the School of Dramatic Art in New York in 1929. A temperamental actress–she did both prestigious films (Love Affair [1939], Waterloo [1940]) and B-Movies. She is best known for her role as Maleva in The Wolfman (1941) and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943). In this sharp, delightful 10” x 8” full-length photograph, Ouspenskaya, dressed in a stylish black gown, leans forward with a treat in hand towards a white toy poodle (?), “Skippy”, standing on its hind legs; they are in an elaborately furnished vestibule. Signed, vertically, to “J. Pitcherale / Maria Ouspenskaya” in the middle blank space. 

Item #A02029

Condition: Several very light creases, only visible when raking light across the surface. Generally in very good condition.