Video: Favorite actress of Stalin: the most beautiful film star of the 1930-1940s
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
She played weavers and housekeepers in the movies, wrote “from employees” in the column “social origin”, and she herself was a descendant of an old Russian noble family. In the 1940s, thousands of Soviet women imitated her - they dyed themselves blondes, cut their hair and dressed in her style. Stalin admired her, and she quietly hated him all her life. At a home play as a child, Chaliapin saw her and said: "This miracle will become a great actress!" And he was not mistaken! Her name - Lyubov Orlova, legend Soviet cinema.
The Orlovs are one of the twelve oldest Russian noble families. In the family of the actress was Grigory Orlov - the one who elevated Catherine II to the throne, and the Decembrist Mikhail Orlov, the hero of 1812. But Lyubov Petrovna not only was not proud of her noble origin, but also carefully concealed it - this did not fit in with the image of the first magnitude of Soviet cinema!
Before becoming a movie star, Orlova performed as an opera singer at the Moscow Musical Theater. We can also hear her singing in films. But there were mixed opinions regarding her vocal abilities. Even her friend Faina Ranevskaya said: "When she sings, it seems as if someone is peeing into an empty bucket."
Lyubov Orlova starred in only 18 films - by today's standards, an insignificant number to become famous throughout the country! But she succeeded. The most famous of her works were "Funny guys", "Circus", "Volga-Volga", "Spring". With Stalin's approval, "Merry Fellows" were shown in all cinemas in the USSR and even sent to the Venice Film Festival. According to rumors, the film was such a success there that even the Venetian gondoliers began to sing the song "Heart, you don't want peace …" Orlova became the first "visiting" Soviet actress - she often went on tour abroad.
Once Stalin promised his beloved actress to fulfill any of her wishes, expecting that the list of requests would be banal - a car, a dacha, an apartment. And Lyubov Petrovna asked to inform about the fate of her first husband, Andrei Berzin, who was arrested several years ago. The request was fulfilled. And at one of the receptions in the Kremlin, Joseph Vissarionovich asked Orlova: “Does your husband offend you?” “Sometimes he does, but rarely,” she replied. “Tell him that if he offends you, we'll hang him!” comrade Stalin? - Aleksandrov intervened in the conversation. “By the neck,” the secretary general answered gloomily and seriously.
The legend of Soviet cinema always looked great, but she preferred to hide her age - she was terrified of old age. On the eve of her 70th birthday, she told everyone that she was 39. She was one of the first stars to do plastic surgery. According to the memoirs of contemporaries, “sometimes Lyubov Orlova was too arrogant about her age. So, in 1974, she starred in the role of a thirty-year-old woman in Grigory Alexandrov's film "Starling and Lyre", which the witches immediately "baptized" in "Sclerosis and Menopause."
In our time, the attitude towards Soviet cinema is rather ambiguous. Someone is ironic, someone is creative and gives a new life - so, Soviet artists, without knowing it, sang Zemfira's song
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