Antedating of "Method Acting"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Much older; OED has 1923 for Stanislavsky's sense of _method_. I see we
don't specify that it's often as "the method", though; we should fix
this.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:24:00PM -0400, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> A curious antedating, since the phrase "The Method" is older;
>
> For example, a snippet view from Time in 1954:
> "Actress Kim Stanley, 29, belongs to a growing school of young stage people
> (Marlon Brando, *Julie Harris*, Geraldine Page) whose particular brand of
> acting is laughingly called The *Method."*
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> ***DanG
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> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:
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> > method acting (OED3 1958)
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> > 1956 _N.Y. Times_ 29 Apr. 131 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)  Because she
> > [Shelley Winters] and the other members of the fine cast seek authenticity,
> > they continually startle the stagehands by their "method" acting.
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> > Fred Shapiro
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