Video: The bitter glory of the queens of the episode: 5 famous Soviet actresses who were not offered leading roles in films
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
They were not considered beauties, but they did not take charm, they did not get the main roles, but they managed to earn all-Union glory. They were called the queens of the episode - appearing on screens for only a few minutes, they sometimes overshadowed the main characters and were immediately remembered by the audience. But almost all of them felt unhappy because the directors did not give them the opportunity to realize their creative potential to the fullest. And this often led to tragedies.
Faina Ranevskaya was probably the most famous of all the supporting actresses. She played only one major role, but the audience remembered as an eccentric actress of the episode: after the release of the movie "Foundling" she was haunted everywhere with the phrase "Mulya, don't make me nervous!" This aroused Ranevskaya's indignation - she herself did not consider this work outstanding and was very upset because it was in this role that everyone remembered her. The actress admitted that she felt deeply unhappy because of the fact that she received so few worthwhile proposals from the directors: "".
Ekaterina Zelenaya became Rina due to the fact that her name did not fit on the theatrical poster. But it was under this name that millions of Soviet viewers recognized her. Her creative destiny can hardly be called happy - there are more than 50 works in her filmography, but in all films she appears only in episodes. Although thanks to her, these schematic images came to life, and the replicas of the next aunt from the bus, the governess, the old woman, the poetess, invented by her, the neighbors immediately went to the people (“They don’t wear such lips now!”). And the roles that glorified her throughout the Union, she played after 70 years. Reena Zelenyaya was upset that everyone knew her only as the tortoise Tortilla and Mrs. Hudson. After "The Adventures of Pinocchio" the actress joked: "". And Mrs. Hudson did not like to remember at all: "". More than once she complained that in this film "was the same piece of furniture as a wardrobe."
Maria Vinogradova was one of the most filmed actresses of Soviet cinema, in her filmography there are more than 100 roles, but all of them were secondary: in her youth she got the role of adolescents, and then she played all kinds of housekeepers, cleaners, watchmen, controllers, aunts and old women. Her colleague, actress Lydia Smirnova, said about her: "".
Olga Volkova played boys in the school drama club, in the Youth Theater she was trusted only as a frog, an imp or even … a window, and other actresses played fairies and Cinderellas. Later, she could not free herself from the role of drag queen, from which she quickly grew. In the theater, her ill-wisher colleagues called her "crookedness, tongue-tied, with a big head." And she took and turned this phrase into a ditty: "". Because of her specific appearance, she was not offered either the main characters, or romantic young ladies, or beautiful ladies, and at the Lenfilm film studio they immediately said: “”. But she herself did not regret it: "". The audience remembered her in the image of Lotte from "The Bat", the waitress Violetta in the film "Station for Two" and the official from "Forgotten Melody for the Flute". She played her first major role only after 50, in the film Promised Heaven. Eldar Ryazanov admired this actress: "".
One of the best Soviet comedic actresses Elizaveta Nikishchikina did not get the main roles in the cinema, although in the episodes she was unsurpassed: her phrase "High, high relations!" from the "Pokrovskie gates" surely everyone remembers. The press called her "the most charming kikimora of Soviet cinema", but such a dubious compliment was not offensive to her - this is exactly the role she played in the film "There, on unknown paths …". All her life she remained a hostage of one image - the role of an eccentric clown. Due to her creative lack of demand and failures in her personal life, the actress became addicted to alcohol. As a result, she lost both her job and loved ones. In 1997, Elizaveta Nikishchikhina passed away in complete loneliness, poverty and oblivion.
I was not worried about the fact that she gets mostly episodic roles, actress Lyudmila Ivanova: "Love is the most important thing in life …".
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