including Maria Ouspenskaya - TCM's Classic Movie Blog Initially attracting about twenty students, including the influential actress and teacher, Stella Adler, the rigorous training was, in contrast to the clichéd image of the Method actors, was said to be “far from being a lab in ... Softhearted was hardly the term that Vivien Leigh and Virginia Field would apply to the tiny terror's imperious pedagogic style when she played Madame Olga Kirowa, dance mistress of the corps de ballet in Waterloo Bridge (1940-Mervyn LeRoy) . ... http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/09/30/and-5000-others-including-maria-ouspenskaya/
David Carradine, John Gilbert, King Vidor - davekehr.com Did these actors seem “bad” in foreign markets? Do Asian audiences perceive Carradine as not very good in comparison to, say, Tony Leung? I've read that Martine Carol is a famously bad actress but it's hard for me to tell, ... an interesting anticipation of Pasolini's “Teorema” — upsets the order of an aristocratic household by seducing both the baroness who employs him (Olga Baclanova) and the maid (Virginia Bruce) who is married to the sympathetic butler (Paul Lukas). ... http://www.davekehr.com/?p=363
Top 9 Ongoing Cult TV Shows - Listverse As a side note to the film, the actress originally cast as Cleopatra, the trapeze artist who woos and deceives the dwarf man, was Myrna Loy but Irving Thalberg eventually decided to go with all unknowns in the cast. The role eventually went to Olga Baclanova. ... and to those who will say that it was cancelled long ago…. they are in the middle of making a cartoon based tv show of firefly due to the fact that they can't get all of the actors together to do more shows. ... http://listverse.com/2008/05/31/top-9-ongoing-cult-tv-shows/