Personal Life
Adler married three times, first to Horace Eliascheff, the father of her only child Ellen, then from 1943 to 1960 to Harold Clurman, the famous director and critic and one of the founders of the Group Theatre, and finally to Mitchell A. Wilson, the physicist and novelist who died in 1973.
From 1938 to 1946 she was a sister-in-law to actress Sylvia Sidney. Sidney was married to her brother Luther at the time and provided Stella with a niece and nephew. Even after Sidney and Luther divorced, she and Sylvia remained close friends.
She died on December 21, 1992, from heart failure at the age of 91, in Los Angeles, California. Adler was survived by her daughter Ellen, her sister Julia, and two grandchildren, including Tom Oppenheim,current president and artistic director of Stella Adler Studio of Acting, New York City. She was interred in the Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale, New York.
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