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Uta Hagen
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{{short description|German-American actress and drama teacher (1919â2004)}}- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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- {{marriage|José Ferrer|1938|1948|reason=divorce{edih}
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Life and career
Early life
Born in Göttingen, Germany,NEWS, Uta Hagen, 84; Tony Winner, Teacher at Famed Acting School,weblink Los Angeles Times, 16 January 2004, 164, Newspapers.com, 7 March 2019, {{Open access}} daughter of Thyra A. (née Leisner), a trained opera singer, and Oskar Hagen,BOOK,weblink Current Biography Yearbook, 1964, H. W. Wilson Company, 14 November 2013, Google Books, an art historian and musician, Hagen and her family emigrated to the United States in 1924. Uta was raised in Madison, Wisconsin; her father taught at the University of WisconsinâMadison.NEWS,weblink Dr. Oskar Hagen to talk on art, 21 March 1930, Cornell Daily Sun, 4 April 2019, She appeared in productions of the University of Wisconsin High School and in summer stock productions of the Wisconsin Players. She studied acting briefly at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1936.Port of New York, passenger list of the S.S. Westernland, 24 December 1936, sheet 165. After spending one semester at the University of WisconsinâMadison, where her father was the head of the department of art history, she left for New York City in 1937.JOURNAL,weblink Lady Invincible, Miles, S. A., Fall 2000, Wisconsin Academy Review, 19â23, 46, 4, 28 February 2019, Her first professional role was as Ophelia opposite Eva Le Gallienne in the title role of Hamlet in Dennis, Massachusetts, in 1936.Career
Hagen was cast, early on, as Ophelia by the actress-manager Eva Le Gallienne. Hagen went on to play (at age 18) the leading ingénue role of Nina in a Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. "The Lunts," she later stated, "were an enormous influence on my life." She admired "their passion for the theatre, and their discipline."MAGAZINE,weblink Stage To Screens: A Chat with Theresa Rebeck; Remembering Uta Hagen, Michael, Buckley, 18 January 2004, Playbill, 30 March 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121020143817weblink">weblink 20 October 2012, dead, The New York Times{{'}} critic Brooks Atkinson hailed her Nina as "grace and aspiration incarnate."NEWS, Mel, Gussow, Uta Hagen, Tony-Winning Broadway Star and Teacher of Actors, Dies at 84,weblink The New York Times, 15 January 2004, She played George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan (1951) on Broadway, and Desdemona in a production which toured. Later she acted with Paul Robeson in Shakespeare's Othello; her then-husband José Ferrer was Iago. She took over the role of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire for the national tour, which was directed by Harold Clurman. In Respect for Acting, she credited her discoveries with Clurman as the springboard for what she would later explore with her husband Herbert Berghof: "how to find a true technique of acting, how to make a character flow through me." She played Blanche (on the road and on Broadway) opposite at least four different Stanley Kowalskis, including Anthony Quinn and Marlon Brando. Primarily noted for stage roles, Hagen won her first Tony Award in 1951 for her performance as the self-sacrificing wife Georgie in Clifford Odets' The Country Girl. She won again in 1963 for originating the role of Martha in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. In 1981 she was elected to the American Theater Hall of Fame and in 1999 received a "Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award."Although she appeared in some movies after 1972, the Hollywood blacklist limited her output in film and television. She would later comment about being blacklisted, "that fact kept me pure."She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award as "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series" for her performance on the television soap opera One Life to Live.She taught at HB Studio, a New York City acting school. She began there in 1947, and married its co-founder, Herbert Berghof, on 25 January 1957. Hagen was an influential acting teacher who taught, among others, Matthew Broderick, Christine Lahti, Amanda Peet, Hope Davis, Jason Robards, Sigourney Weaver, Katie Finneran, Liza Minnelli, Whoopi Goldberg, Jack Lemmon, Charles Nelson Reilly, Manu Tupou, Debbie Allen, Herschel Savage, George Segal, Jon Stewart, and Al Pacino. She was a voice coach to Judy Garland, teaching her a German accent for the picture Judgment at Nuremberg.BOOK, Fricke, John,weblink Judy: A Legendary Film Career, 2010, Running Press, 978-0-7624-4368-0, Philadelphia, 751694891, Garland's performance earned her an Academy Award nomination.Later in life, Hagen returned to the stage, earning accolades for leading roles in Mrs. Warren's Profession (1985), Collected Stories, and Mrs. Klein. After Berghof's death in 1990, she became the school's chairperson.BOOK, Hagen, Uta,weblink Respect for Acting, 2023, Haskel Frankel, 978-1-119-91359-7, Expanded, San Francisco, CA, 225, 1361694692, She also wrote Respect for Acting (1973) and A Challenge for the Actor (1991), which advocate realistic (as opposed to "formalistic") acting. In her mode of realism, the actor puts his own psyche to use in finding identification with the role," trusting that a form will result.Hagen, Uta 1991. A Challenge for the Actor. New York: Scribner's. {{ISBN|0-684-19040-0}} In Respect for Acting, Hagen credited director Harold Clurman with a turn-around in her perspective on acting:In 1947, I worked in a play under the direction of Harold Clurman. He opened a new world in the professional theatre for me. He took away my 'tricks'. He imposed no line readings, no gestures, no positions on the actors. At first I floundered badly because for many years I had become accustomed to using specific outer directions as the material from which to construct the mask for my character, the mask behind which I would hide throughout the performance. Mr Clurman refused to accept a mask. He demanded ME in the role. My love of acting was slowly reawakened as I began to deal with a strange new technique of evolving in the character. I was not allowed to begin with, or concern myself at any time with, a preconceived form. I was assured that a form would result from the work we were doing.Hagen later "disassociated" herself from Respect for Acting. In Challenge for the Actor, she redefined a term which she had initially called "substitution," an esoteric technique for mixing elements of an actor's life with his/her character work, calling it "transference" instead. Respect for Acting was used as a textbook for many college acting classes. She also wrote a 1976 cookbook, Love for Cooking. In 2002, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President George W. Bush at a ceremony held at the White House.Harvey Korman talks about studying under her during his Archive of American Television interview in 2004.WEB,weblink Harvey Korman, 20 April 2004, Archive of American Television, 18 June 2012, David Hyde Pierce worked with Hagen in the Richard Alfieri play Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, at the Geffen Playhouse in 2001.MAGAZINE,weblink Review: 'Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks', Steven, Oxman, 10 June 2001, Variety (magazine), Variety, 29 September 2016, Hyde Pierce spoke at her 2004 memorial at Manhattan's Majestic Theater.NEWS,weblink Uta Hagen Memorial, 20 March 2004, The New York Times, 18 June 2012,Students of Uta Hagen
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- Robert DeNiro
- Steve McQueen
- Tony Goldwyn
- Orson Bean
- Faye Dunaway
- Gene Hackman
- Laura Esterman
- Hal Holbrook
- Sandy Dennis
- Griffin Dunne
- Sally KirklandWEB,weblink The Sally Kirkland vu from the land of the silver screen, August 2000,
- Robert LuPone
- Barbara Feldon
- Tovah Feldshuh
- Michael ParéBOOK, Science Fiction Television Series, 1990-2004: Histories, Casts and Credits for 58 Shows,weblink Frank Garcia, Mark Phillips, 2013, McFarland & Company, McFarland & Company, Inc., 978-0-7864-2483-2, 321â322,
- Katie Finneran
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- Victor Garber
- Jerry Stiller
- Anne Meara
- Rita Gardner
- Charles Nelson Reilly
- Lee Grant
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- Eileen Heckart
- William Hickey
- Gerald Hiken
- Anne Jackson
- Harvey Korman
- Geraldine Page
- Jason Robards, Jr.
- Matthew Broderick
- Corey ParkerNEWS,weblink Uta Hagen, legendary actor and teacher, dies at 84, Sylvan, Migdal, 27 January 2004, The Villager (Manhattan), The Villager, 28 February 2019,
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Amanda Peet
- Jack Lemmon
- Lindsay Crouse
- Fritz Weaver
- Prunella Scales
- Kevin Sussman
- Rochelle Oliver
- Peter Boyle
Personal life
Uta Hagen was married to José Ferrer from 1938 until 1948. They had one child together, their daughter Leticia (born 15 October 1940). They divorced partly because of Hagen's long-concealed affair with Paul Robeson, her co-star in Othello. Hagen married Herbert Berghof on 25 January 1957, a union that lasted for 33 years until his death in 1990. Hagen died in Greenwich Village in 2004 after suffering a stroke in 2001.In popular culture
In 2009, Weird Al Yankovicâs âSkipper Danâ referenced Uta Hagen in the opening verse:I starred in every high school playBlew every drama teacher awayI graduated first in my class at JuilliardTook every acting workshop I couldAnd I dreamed of HollywoodWhile I read my Uta Hagenand studied the BardWEB, Lyrics,weblink Musixmatch,Theatre
- Her name was in the song La Vie Bohème from the 1996 rock opera Rent written and composed by Jonathan Larson: "To the stage, To Uta, To Buddha, Pablo Neruda too."WEB,weblink To Uta, genius.com,
Work
{{col-begin}}{{col-break|width=40%}}Stage
- The Seagull (1938)
- The Happiest Days (1939)
- Key Largo (1939)
- Vickie (1942)
- Othello (1943)
- The Whole World Over (1947)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
- The Country Girl (1950)
- Saint Joan (1951)
- In Any Language (1952)
- The Magic and The Loss (1954)
- Island of Goats (1955)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962)
- The Cherry Orchard (1968)
- You Never Can Tell (1986)
- Charlotte (1980)
- Mrs. Klein (1995)
- Collected Stories (1998)
- Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (2001)
Film
- The Other (1972) - Ada
- The Boys from Brazil (1978) - Frieda Maloney
- Reversal of Fortune (1990) - Maria
- (Limón: A Life Beyond Words) (2001) - Narrator
Television
- Victory (1945, TV Movie)
- A Month in the Country (1959) - Natalia Petrovna
- The Day Before Sunday (1970) - Annamae Whiteley
- A Doctor's Story (1984, TV Movie) - Mrs. Hilda Reiner
- The Twilight Zone (1986) - Gloria (segment "The Library")
- Seasonal Differences (1987) - Omi
- The Sunset Gang (1991) - Sophie (segment "The Home")
- King of the Hill (1999) - Maureen (voice)
- Oz (1999) - Mama Rebadow
Awards and nominations
- 1951 Tony Award, ActressâPlay, The Country GirlWEB,weblink 1951 Tony Awards, Infoplease.com, 14 November 2013,
- 1963 Tony Award, ActressâPlay, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Special 1999 Tony Award for Lifetime AchievementWEB,weblink Meet Uta Hagen, HB Studio, 28 February 2019, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100711084013weblink">weblink 11 July 2010,
- 1999 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesBOOK,weblink Book of Members, 1780â2010: Chapter H, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 25 July 2014,
- 2002 National Medal of Arts
Quotes
{{Expand section|date=April 2024}}- "Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, 'That's what theatre's about'. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often."WEB,weblink Uta Hagen Quotes, BrainyQuote, 14 November 2013,
- "Awards don't really mean much."WEB,weblink Uta Hagen Quotes, BrainyQuote, 14 November 2013,
References
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- {{IBDB name|43654}}
- {{iobdb name|3224}}
- {{IMDb name|353467}}
- {{NYPL Archives & Manuscripts|21834|the|Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof papers, 1889â2004}}, Library for the Performing Arts
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