Date 22/02/2017 - News People
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 surrounded by her family, according to a spokesperson for Spielberg's production company, Amblin Partners. She most recently owned a kosher restaurant on Pico Boulevard in West L.A. called The Milky Way. Born in Cincinnati and raised during the Roaring Twenties and the Depression with her older brother Bernard, Leah Frances Posner developed a love of music when she learned piano at age 5.
