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  1. Feb 22, 2017 · Adler was born Leah Posner in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1920 and raised during the twenties and the Great Depression, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She studied music and later home...

    • She Was An Accomplished Piano Player and Painter.
    • She Owned A Kosher Restaurant in Los Angeles.
    • She Was Not Related to The Famed Acting Coach Stella Adler.
    • She Apparently Had Quite The Sense of Humor.

    Spielberg has gotten his share of accolades over the years, including multiple Oscars. But as The Fabelmans makes clear, he gets his artistic bent from his mother. Adler began playing piano at a young age and studied at the music conservatory in her hometown of Cincinnati. After moving to Phoenix in the 1950s, she operated an art gallery. She was a...

    Opened by Leah and her second husband, Bernie Adler, in 1977, the Milky Way restaurant aimed to “offer fine kosher food to the Jewish community.” Although the cuisine was kosher, the menu wasn’t restricted to matzo balls and kugel. The restaurant offered up a variety of cuisines that weren’t easily accessible to observant Jews at the time, includin...

    While her second husband may have shared a surname with the legendary Stella Adler, there was no familial relationship with the instructor whose students included Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro and Martin Sheen. (Stella Adler was also born into a famous Yiddish theater family.) But in 2008, Spielberg helped launch a scholarshipat the acting school i...

    In a 1994 interviewwith the Los Angeles Times, she threw out this quip: “I told Steve, if I’d known how famous he was going to be, I’d have had my uterus bronzed.”

  2. Feb 21, 2017 · Leah Adler, the mother of Steven Spielberg who fostered his interest in filmmaking, died Tuesday. She was 97. A former concert pianist and painter, Adler died at her home in Los Angeles...

  3. Feb 22, 2017 · Steven Spielberg ‘s mother, Leah Adler, known for operating The Milky Way restaurant in Los Angeles, died Tuesday at her Los Angeles home surrounded by her children. She was 97. Adler, known as...

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  5. LOS ANGELES ( JTA) — Leah Adler, the mother of director Steven Spielberg and a well-known restaurateur, has died. Adler, also a former concert pianist and accomplished painter, died Tuesday...

  6. Feb 22, 2017 · Steven Spielberg’s mother, Leah Adler, known for operating The Milky Way restaurant in Los Angeles, died Tuesday at her Los Angeles home surrounded by her children. She was 97. Adler, known as...

  7. Feb 23, 2017 · Steven Spielberg's mother Leah Adler, a Cincinnati native who gave birth to Steven here in 1946, died Tuesday in Los Angeles where she had operated The Milky Way restaurant. She was 97. She was...

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