LOVE ORLOVA P.

Russian actress. Filmed in the movies: "Happy Children", "Volga-Volga", "Shining Path", "Meeting on the Elbe", "Spring", etc. Among the theatrical roles: Jesse Smith ( "The Russian Question") , Patrick Campbell ( "Dear Liar"), Ethel Savage ( "The Strange Mrs. Savage), Lizzie Mc-Kay (" Lizzie Mc Cay "), etc.

Lyubov Petrovna Orlova was born on 29 January (11 February) 1902 in Moscow. Her father, Peter F. , Hereditary nobleman, served in the military office, was the king′s highest decorations. No less notable was the kind of love and mother Petrovna - Eugene N. Suhotina. Noble family Suhotinyh was related to the family of Count Tolstoy. Orlov was kept in the house book "Caucasian Captive" with the great writer′s gift inscription: "Lyubochke. L. Tolstoy. "

In one of the home plays a seven Lyuba played turnip. Fedor Ivanovich Chaliapin himself, often stayed in the family Orlov, slobber, and took the girl on the hand, said that it would be a great actress.

Having finished school, Lyubov Orlova entered the Moscow Conservatory in the class piano. "The parents wanted me to become a pianist, they love music and good singing," - says the actress. - But had to give up - not before it. Since the beginning of the NEP, our family was on the rocks. I tried to give music lessons - willing to sit for the piano was not found. Morning went to ballet school at Francesca Beata, and in the evenings worked ballroom pianist in movie theaters. In three sessions, four hours daily. Then, however, the profession elegantly called - "the show movie!"

Love wanted to become a dancer. And when she brought in music-hall "Orfeuma, she was in the seventh heaven of happiness. Orlova otplyasyvala cancan, folk dances and even the modern waltz Drigo on pointe.

In 1926 she married Andrew Gasparovicha Berzina, but the marriage was unhappy. Berzin, a remarkable man in all respects, was one of the champions of the idea that sitting and tsarist penal servitude, and Stalin. In zamnarkomom when he was farming, he finally sat down - in the case Chayanova in 1929-m. About him did not know until the end of the forties, when he was released to die from cancer to the mother in Lithuania.

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Orlov came to the music studio at the Moscow Art Theater VI Nemirovich-Danchenko in the midst of its reorganization, to be exact - at the time of the creation of musical theater. First, she tried to be invisible: she sang in the chorus of, danced in the corps de ballet, but all are intended for larger roles. Orlova taking private lessons in acting at the theater teacher, KI Koltubay.

Finally she trusted in the same role Perikoly operetta, Jacques Offenbach. After a noisy success Orlova plays Gersilyu in the operetta "Daughter of Madame Angot," Georgette in "Straw cap, Serpolettu in Kornevilskih Bells . . .

In 1933, she started to film, playing the role of Mrs Ellen Getvud nemom in the movie "Love, Alena and Grushenki in the sound picture of" St. Petersburg′s night. "

Orlova heroine, comic and lyrical, eccentric and reliable, sings and dances, later appeared - thanks to director Grigori Alexandrov Ва�ильевичу. After returning from America to their homeland, he was looking for the actress to the role of Anjuta in the new movie "Funny guys. " Some of his close friends advised him to look in the Music Theater Perikolu "with the actress Lyubov Orlova in the title role.

"Lyubov Petrovna in" Perikole "beautifully sung and danced - Grigory Vasilevich told later. - After the performance I was backstage, we met. I immediately wanted to close her learn to talk, as they say, face to face. scored courage, I asked her the next day to go with me to the Bolshoi Theater in celebration on Leonid V. Sobinov. She was surprised, but agreed. And after the celebrations sobinovskih we wandered until dawn with her on the streets of Moscow. And they said, talked endlessly . . . "

Orlova niece later admitted: "I saw zolotovolosogo blue-eyed god, and everything was over. "

The director offered her the role of singing and dancing maids Anjuta. Lyubov Petrovna shook her head: "But we probably will often argue . . . This is not to work? "-" No problem, - said the director. - In disputes the truth is born. "

The shooting "Happy Guys" took place in Gagra. Between the Roman eagles and Alexandrov developed rapidly. And although the director had a wife and small son, and the actress - an influential admirer - German businessman, it became clear that they can not live without each other.

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Shortly after the shooting Orlov became the wife of Alexandrov.

The first musical "jazz-comedy" Happy Children "(1934) was greeted with delight the audience. "Do you think - write American newspapers - that Moscow only struggling, studying, working? You are mistaken . . . Moscow laughs! And so contagious, heartily and happily, you′ll laugh along with it! "

When the movie came out in the Soviet screen - it was in December of 1934 - was already known that at the International Film Festival in Venice, he received honorary awards for directing and music.

Next work Alexandrova "Circus" (1936) - the product of the same comedy as it is tragic, a truly innovative, unusual for the Russian cinema of the time. The main role of American Marion Dixon truly glittering Lyubov Orlova. At the International Exhibition in Paris in 1937, the picture won "Grand Prix".

Galina Shakhovskaya, choreographer, put Orlova, all dancing in the film, remembers that became famous for the number of gun had to withdraw with a double - was imported at the end of the film. To take a dance made a special gun, or rather only the upper part of it with a glass platform that covers the mouth. Spot, lit from the bottom of this site, set up so powerful that the glass started quickly warm. Lyubov Petrovna, nothing suspecting, impeccably performed a dance and, as has been previously provided, singing, sat in a hot gun . . . And the actress does not pretend to. After shooting her was taken to hospital with third-degree burn, but the only version of the dance and went into the picture.

Following the "funny guys" and "Circus" kinogruppa Alexandrov began work on a new kinokomediey - "Volga-Volga" (1938). "This is my happiness directing that in the film" Volga-Volga "was filmed Lyubov Orlova, which can do everything - wrote in his book, Grigory Alexandrov. - The role of Lyubov Orlova Arrows in all splendor revealed remarkable qualities of his talent - the ability to combine eccentrically comic picture of the outside with a genuine lyrical sense, with true human emotions. "

In the next picture Alexandrova "Shining Path" (1940) Orlova created a touching and cheerful image of a village girl who came to the factory, and earned fame and recognition due to the hard creative work.

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Some notes Lyubov Petrovna about how she was preparing to shoot in the role of Tanya Morozova. ". . . I passed tehminimum - says the actress - and won the qualification weavers. The rapid development of professional help that I was engaged not only in the classroom. Weaver must have very dexterous fingers to quickly engage in weaver′s knot, this is achieved through long practice. I give this training all the time. In the bag I have always been Motoc threads, like other women were knitting. I knit textile units are always and everywhere. These nodes, I bandaged the house fringe tablecloths, towels, curtains . . . "

Audience captivated beauty and irresistible charm, the plasticity of the actress. The cheerful and fervent, kind and loving, sincere and guileless - as she sang! In music heroin Orlova - Anjuta of "Happy Guys" Duni Petrova (arrows) of the "Volga-Volga", Tanya from "Shining Path" - was expressed in the fullness of life heroines, their feelings of purity, love of life, joy, irony and humor. With its performance related "Song of the Motherland" and "Song of the Volga," "March of Enthusiasts" and "The Moon Waltz, light, sweet song" I′m all the grief and Zhurchat streams.

In December 1939, on the screens is a movie "Failure to engineer Cochin" (director A. Macheret). After a series of positive characters Lyubov Orlova appeared in the form of posobnitsy spy Lebedeva Ksenia. "Fans of her talent indignant: popular favorite - and the role of spy! Some viewers felt that the film was odnofamilitsa a famous actress just like her.

And another unusual role for Orlova - Paula Menotti dancer in the film "The thing Artamonova, its director G. Roshal for novel Gorky. Dramatic actress has the talent and the small role of a significant thought, a realistic expression.

During the war, Orlova played "Martial kinosbornikah, gave concerts at the front and rear, in the armed forces and hospitals, factories, and factories, collective farms and state farms.

In 1942, Alexandrov took off in Baku, a film about friendship and love people: "One Family". Kinogruppa worked day and night, people slept in the pavilions for three to four hours a day: I want to finish the picture as soon as possible: believed that she needed to spectators.

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But the film clearly does not work, and Orlova, it preferred not to remember.

After the war, P. Love continued to work in film and on the concert stage. She truly enjoyed popular love.

In the film "Spring" (1947) Orlova played twin sisters - cheerful, funny actress Vera Shatrova and harsh, inaccessible to scientific Irina Nikitin. And in both roles is easy to capture features of the full fine lyricism, the images it created in music kinokomediyah have become classics of cinema. At Venice festival Lyubov Orlova and Ingrid Bergman shared the prize, awarded the best actress.

In the next picture of "Meeting on the Elbe" (1949) Orlova performed the role of American razvedchitsy Janet Sherwood. Documenteries "Mussorgsky" (1950) and "Music by Glinka (1952), it created a soft, heartfelt images of Russian women: the first - charming singer Platonova, in the second - Welcome Lyudmila Ivanovna, sister of Mikhail Ivanovich.

Owner of three languages and elegant Orlova, accompanied by her husband often abroad. In 1953, a delegation of supporters of peace wife visited the United States. The trip was replete with meetings, reports, briefs . . .

Orlova and Alexandrov were familiar with Charles Chaplin, Fernand Leger, Pablo Picasso, Renato Guttuzo, Eduardo de Filippo, Jean-Paul Sartre, Peter Brook and other masters of the western culture.

In 1949, Lyubov Petrovna returned to the theater. At the stage name Mossovet she played Jessie Smith in the play "Russian question" on the play by K. Simonov. Directed by Yuri Zavadsky said: "Orlova never hoped for a gift, released her nature. She continues to work, polish their skills. The requirements to allow it to be a demanding and others - our partners and directors. This inexhaustible talent. Lyubov Orlova and always delightfully unique. "

Among the memorable theatrical roles Actress: Lydia (Somov and others "), Nora (" Doll′s House "), Patrick Campbell (" Dear Liar "), Lizzie Mc-Kay (" Lizzie Mc Cay "), Ethel Savage ( "The Strange Mrs. Savage). According to critics, "all created by it in the theater of different brightness and fullness of life colors, historical accuracy, high-skill reincarnation, which was characteristic of her always.

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Jean-Paul Sartre, who visited in summer 1962 from the 400-m representation of his plays in the theater of Mossovet, told reporters: "I particularly admired the talented game Lyubov Orlova. After the presentation I said actress, I am delighted by her game. This was not an empty compliment, - stressed the writer. - Lyubov Orlova is indeed the best of all the performers that I know of Lizzie Mc Kay. "

Orlova loved holiday cottage in Vnukovo near Moscow. Here lived Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, Isaac Dunaevsky, Leonid Utesov, Faina Ranevskaya, Iosif Prut . . . All of hectares of land, much good at home. On the Igor Ilyinsky playing tennis.

Among close friends were choreographer Galina Orlova Shakhovskaya, family Anisimova-Wulf, Ranevskaya. Seemingly, it is difficult to imagine anything more unlike: Ranevskaya and Orlov. But they have excellent relations.

Lyubov Petrovna made the seemingly impossible: played - in "Strange Mrs. Savage - after Ranevskaya. Faina Grigorievna perform the role with such success as the Orlov, the case simply incredible. Yes, it was the other Savage, did not have the power Ranevskaya, but more vulnerable, touching . . .

In the early 1970′s, Alexandrov began shooting the film "starling and Lear" about the fate of two Soviet spies (they played Alexandrov and Orlov). Although many scenes of the movie and have been withdrawn, it remained unfinished. The years took their . . .

In early 1975, among the creative intelligentsia increasingly with great concern by word of mouth passed news of the serious illness of Lyubov Petrovna. Its called incurable disease. Shortly before her death, Alexandrov came to the hospital, entered the chamber, and heard something that has not heard from the wife ever. Lyubov Petrovna said: "How long do you . . . " It was the only reproach for life. They have always treated each other with "you. " And never write letters: not long separated.

On the day of birth Alexandrova, 23 January 1975, Lyubov Petrovna Orlova unconscious, 26-th it was not.