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Rasputin and the Empress
John Barrymore (left) and Lionel Barrymore in Rasputin and the Empress (1932), directed by Richard Boleslavsky.
Richard Boleslavsky
Polish-born director
Also known as: Bolesław Ryszard Śrzednicki, Richard Bolesławski, Richard Boleslavski
Quick Facts
- Boleslavsky also spelled:
- Bolesławski, Boleslavski, or Boleslawski
- Original name:
- Bolesław Ryszard Śrzednicki
- Born:
- February 4, 1889, Dębowa Góra, Poland, Russian Empire [now in Poland]
- Died:
- January 17, 1937, Los Angeles, California, U.S. (aged 47)
- Notable Works:
- “Men in White”
- “Painted Veil, The”
Richard Boleslavsky (born February 4, 1889, Dębowa Góra, Poland, Russian Empire [now in Poland]—died January 17, 1937, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was a motion-picture and stage director who introduced the Stanislavsky method of acting to the United States. He directed such popular American films of the 1930s as Rasputin and the Empress (1932), Les Misérables (1935), and Theodora Goes Wild (1936). Boleslavsky first acted onstage in Odessa in 1904, and in 1906 he entered the school of the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT) under director Konstantin Stanislavsky. In the Stanislavsky method of acting, playing a character onstage is as much a ...(100 of 901 words)