His daughter Stella, an actress of aristocratic bearing, became a legend as a teacher, instructing or producing disciples who taught a top-drawer lineup: Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Harvey Keitel, Shelley Winters, Susan Sarandon, Martin Sheen, Mark Ruffalo and Benicio Del Toro. The paterfamilias was a Jewish immigrant from Russia, Jacob Adler, one of the greatest actors of the Yiddish stage and the leading force in transforming it from schlock to serious drama. He is, after all, the fourth generation of Adlers in the New York theater, earning his family the right to challenge the Barrymores as an enduring dynasty. Oppenheim is understandably saturated in family legacy. ![]() Oppenheim’s grandmother Stella Adler, the teacher who instructed the definitive Stanley, Marlon Brando, in her version of the Method. When he has heard Stanley Kowalski bellow “Stella!” over the years in assorted productions of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Tom Oppenheim has wondered whether Tennessee Williams chose the name as an insider’s bouquet to Mr.
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