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880: 1321: 33: 311: 679:(the supporting categories weren't established until the following year), her character portrayal was a model of a sinister screen villain. In close-up, she flashed a look of steely malevolence; in her speech to the revolutionary tribunal – asking for the conviction and execution of Charles Darnay – she played it large and to the rafters. The film was only nominated in the Best Film and Best Editing categories, not even its star, 719:(1940), in which Yurka played a gangster matriarch closely based on the contemporary outlaw, Ma Barker. Her severe, vaguely imperious looks led to her casting in a rogue's gallery of austere or villainous parts. Through the 1940s and with decreasing frequency in the 1950s, she appeared in a succession of B parts that wasted her talents, occasionally landing supporting character parts in A list movies. Among the latter were 235:. Her father was a teacher and librarian. She inherited her father's artistic and scholarly interests, including a love of music and acting. She finished grade school before her father lost his job teaching Czech language at the Jefferson School in St. Paul. He found a new position with the Czech Benevolent Society in New York and moved the family to the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 1900. 1449: 668:, who turned it down but recommended Yurka, declaring her the "only" actress for the part. The two women hadn't yet met but were well acquainted with one another's work inasmuch as they were the leading Ibsen heroines on the Broadway stage. Despite Nazimova's endorsement, Yurka was the 67th actor tested for the role. 805:
On occasion, she could be critical of Broadway for production values which did not live up to the highest standards. In a letter to the New York Times, published November 6, 1955, she reproached the theater community's "passion for ugliness that seems so much a part of our theater today." Before the
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Yurka never left the theater, but as her Hollywood roles became less satisfying after the war, the pace of both her film and stage roles fell off. During World War II, she contributed her time and talent to the war effort as a theater performer. She toured with theater troupes in Europe both before
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but was dismissed from there for the same reason. Having lost her chance at an operatic career, she took the Institute director's suggestion and tried for a career on the theater stage. Through persistence, she managed to get an audition with the theater impresario
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singled out her contribution: "And while pointing out the beauty of the work of the principals, it is a pleasant privilege to lay a wreath at the feet of the little lady who carried the Grail with such reverent and touching consecration to her sacred duties."
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Yurka was active in theater causes all her life. She supported the 1919 actors' strike. She later vigorously defended the interests of American actors against a British invasion of American theaters. She aligned herself with
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Her parents used their modest income to provide Blanche with singing lessons in New York even before she entered high school (1901–03). Her vocal talent attracted the admiration of composer and singer
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year was over, she announced her retirement from the stage – a short-lived retirement that would find her back onstage exactly a year later in the Phoenix Theatre's
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at the 1939 Senate Appropriations Committee hearings that de-funded the program in reaction to productions that were deemed sympathetic to the political left-wing.
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Yurka was foremost a stage actress and for a long time considered film-making an inferior art form. Her low opinion of the movies started to change when she saw
871:(1969). When the play traveled to off-Broadway in 1970, the New York critics' reception was lukewarm, and Yurka retired from acting soon after the show closed. 297:(1906), and the following year, he extended her a contract, at which time she changed her surname to "Yurka", a homophone of her true surname. 1553: 1528: 816:
under the aegis of the United States International Exchange of Artists to open the Greek Drama Festival. There, she appeared in a reading of
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In the last 15 years of her life, few stage or film roles came her way. She appeared sporadically in television shows in the '50s, notably,
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debut in 1906 and established herself as a character actor of the classical stage, also appearing in several films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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She continued her studies at the Met Opera School but was dismissed when she injured her voice singing the role of Leonora in
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in the 1933 film. She concluded her career on a note of personal triumph with her critically acclaimed London performance as
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and died June 6, 1974, at age 86. She was interred in the same burial plot with her good friend, actress
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in an amateur production. She transferred to the Institute for Musical Art (1905–07), forerunner of the
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Yurka threw herself into the part – quite literally. Her final fight scene with
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Building on her repertoire of classic characters, Yurka starred in a quartet of
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and made her Metropolitan Opera stage debut in the Christmas 1903 production of
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In addition to her many stage roles, which included Queen Gertrude opposite
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Yurka collected her thoughts about acting technique in the book
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America's Longest Run: A History of the Walnut Street Theatre
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and after the war. In December, 1945, she appeared at the
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ANTONIN JURKA, A PIONEER CZECH SCHOOLMASTER IN MINNESOTA
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In the year 1932 alone, she played the title role in
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Univ of California Press. 957:(1941) as Mrs. Augusta Stack 861:(1969) – the role played by 650:, adapted from the novel by 7: 1569:Burials at Kensico Cemetery 1149:Sicherman, Barbara (1986). 891:(1959) and wrote a memoir, 595:opposite Cornell's Juliet. 10: 1595: 1246:Internet Broadway Database 1061:(1950) as Herrera's Mother 1026:The Bridge of San Luis Rey 981:(1942) as Mrs. Anna Taylor 732:The Bridge of San Luis Rey 610:, which reunited her with 1472:Blanche Yurka discography 1105:; accessed April 1, 2015. 127: 119: 102: 87: 68: 42: 30: 23: 1549:American stage actresses 1370:Connecticut College News 1085:(1959) as Louise Dauphin 1053:(1947) as Madame Thillot 973:(1942) as Julia Alderson 874: 868:The Madwoman of Chaillot 604:Gregorio Martínez Sierra 1539:American film actresses 1486:Blanche Yurka portraits 1207:Yurka, Blanche (1970). 1069:(1952) as Madame Michom 1045:(1947) as Aunt Margaret 1005:(1943) as Widow Grelieu 965:(1942) as Mrs. Savarina 849:Philip Morris Playhouse 812:. 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St. Paul, Minnesota
New York City
Kensico Cemetery
Valhalla
Ian Keith
Metropolitan Opera
Broadway
John Barrymore
Hamlet
Madame Defarge
MGM
A Tale of Two Cities
The Song of Bernadette
Zachary Scott
The Southerner
St. Paul, Minnesota
Bohemia
Harry Burleigh
Michael William Balfe
The Bohemian Girl
Wagner
Parsifal
Bayreuth
Henry Krehbiel
Verdi
Il Trovatore
Juilliard School
David Belasco

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