Maria Ouspenskaya

Ouspenskaya died from a stroke several days after receiving severe burns in a house fire, which she had caused by falling asleep while smoking a cigarette. Mitchell apparently has made enough claims about being married to Pressly that some sources have reported it as fact. Despite her two Academy Award nominations her later films were inferior productions such as Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) and Tarzan and the Amazons (1945). Pressly, who has never married, has stated she has heard of Mitchell but does not know him. Her other successes included The Rains Came (1939), Waterloo Bridge (1940), The Mortal Storm (1940), and Kings Row (1942). One persistent rumor is that Pressly married a man named Brodie Mitchell in 1998. She received a second nomination in 1939 for her role in Love Affair. Pressly has posed nude for the March 1998 and February 2004 issues of Playboy.

Her first Hollywood role, in Dodsworth (1936) brought her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. As a result, she was offered the lead in the 1997 sequel, Poison Ivy: The New Seduction. Although she had appeared in a few Russian silent films many years earlier, Ouspenskaya had avoided making a career in film, until the financial hardship of her school forced her to consider the possibilities of film to help her build her finances. Pressly worked as Drew Barrymore's body double in the film Poison Ivy. One of Ouspenskaya's students at the school during this period was the then unknown teenager, Anne Baxter. Pressly had herself legally emancipated from her parents at the age of 15. She performed regularly on Broadway over the next decade, and in 1929 she founded the School of Dramatic Art in New York. Pressly studied gymnastics and dancing in her youth and began modeling at an early age.

The Moscow Art Theatre travelled widely throughout Europe and when it arrived in New York in 1922 she decided to remain. Jaime Lynn Pressly was born in Kinston, North Carolina, USA. A member of the Moscow Art Theatre, she was directed by Konstantin Stanislavski, and for the remainder of her life advocated and taught his method. Jaime Pressly (born July 30, 1977) is an American model and actress. Born in Tula, Russia, Ouspenskaya studied singing in Warsaw and acting in Moscow and performed extensively in Russian theater. Unleashed (2003). Maria Ouspenskaya (July 29, 1876 - December 3, 1949) was a Russian born actress who achieved success as an stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman in Hollywood films. Torque (2003).

Johnny Chronicles (2002) (TV movie). Demon Island (2002). Footprints (2002). Tomcats (2001).

Ticker (2001). Not Another Teen Movie (2001). Joe Dirt (2001). Best Actress (2000) (TV movie).

Poor White Trash (2000). 100 Girls (2000). Jack & Jill (1999) (TV series). Coyote Moon (1999) (Direct to Video).

Trash (1999). Ringmaster (1998). Can't Hardly Wait (1998). Push (1998) (TV series).

Mercenary (1997) (TV movie). Against the Law (1997). The Journey: Absolution (1997). Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997).