Maria Ouspenskaya as Maleva
Technically a sequel to The Wolf Man, this is the first Universal feature to bring two of the studio's monsters together. Lawrence Talbot is resurrected by grave robbers and then cannot persuade anyone that he's a werewolf. Maleeva tells him to see Dr. Frankenstein, instead they find his creation. Bela Lugosi as the frankenstein monster.
Biography for Maria Ouspenskaya
Date of birth
29 July 1876
Tula, Russia
Date of death
3 December 1949
Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Born the daughter of a lawyer, Ouspenskaya studied singing at the Warsaw Conservatory and acting at Adasheff's School of the Drama in Moscow. She received her practical training as an actress touring stock in the Russian provinces and then joined the Moscow Art Theatre. It was here that she first worked under the direction of the great Stanislavski, whose "Method" she would go on to promote for the remainder of her life. She came to America with the Art Theatre in 1922 and remained after they returned to Moscow to become a dominant Broadway actress for more than a decade. In 1929 she founded the School of Dramatic Art in New York. It was to help keep the school funded that she accepted her first Hollywod film, Dodsworth, in 1936. (She had appeared in a few movies in Russia.) This began a lucrative association, for Ouspenskaya, Hollywood and the viewing public, that would last for more than a dozen years and two dozen films.
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Kiss in the Dark, A (1949) .... Mme. Karina
Wyoming (1947) .... Maria
I've Always Loved You (1946) .... Madame Goronoff
... aka Concerto (1950) (UK)
Tarzan and the Amazons (1945) (as Mme. Maria Ouspenskaya) .... Amazon Queen
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) .... Maleva, the Old Gypsy Woman
Kings Row (1942) .... Madame von Eln
Mystery of Marie Roget (1942) .... Madame Cecile Roget
... aka Phantom of Paris (1942)
Shanghai Gesture, The (1941) .... The Amah
Wolf Man, The (1941) .... Maleva, Bela's Mother
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) .... Franziska Spever
... aka Story of Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet, The (1940) (UK)
Beyond Tomorrow (1940) .... Mme. Tanya
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) .... Madame Lydia Basilova
Man I Married, The (1940) .... Frau Gerhardt
... aka I Married a Nazi (1940)
Mortal Storm, The (1940) .... Mrs. Hilda Breitner
Waterloo Bridge (1940) .... Madame Olga Kirowa
Judge Hardy and Son (1939) .... Mrs. Judith Volduzzi
Rains Came, The (1939) .... Maharani
Love Affair (1939) .... Grandmother Janou
Conquest (1937) .... Countess Pelagia Walewska
... aka Marie Walewska (1937) (UK)
Dodsworth (1936) .... Baroness Von Obersdorf
Khveska (1923)
... aka Hospital Guard Khveska (1923)
Tsvety zapozdalye (1917) (as Mariya Uspenskaya) .... The matchmaker
... aka Belated Flowers (1917)
... aka Dr. Toporkov (1917)
Nichtozhniye (1916)
... aka Worthless (1916)
Sverchok na pechi (1915) (as Mariya Uspenskaya)
... aka Cricket on the Hearth, The (1915/II)