Paula Strasberg
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Paula Strasberg (b. circa 1911 – d. April 29 1966) was actor Lee Strasberg's second wife and Marilyn Monroe's acting coach/confidante.
Strasberg was born as Paula Miller in New York City. Her first Broadway credit, as Paula Miller, was in 1927 when she was around 16 years old, appearing in The Cradle Song. She appeared in more than 20 more stage roles until Me and Molly in 1948. She was blacklisted for her membership in the American Communist Party, although her husband was not and apparently suffered no adverse effects on his career. Paula Strasberg would go on to become Marilyn Monroe's acting coach and confidante until Monroe's death in 1962.
Her children John Strasberg and Susan Strasberg were also actors. Susan Strasberg described her mother as a "combination delicatessen, pharmacist, Jewish mother".[1]
Strasberg died of cancer in 1966 and is interred at Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York.
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- ^ Summers, Anthony (1986). Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe. New American Library, 173. ISBN0451400143.
Paula Strasberg was Lee Strasberg's first wife and Ana Strasberg his second wife. Marilyn Monroe's will was the longest probate in history and Paula was dead before probate was finished.
