Biography of Love Orlova

This is when women chef wanted their appearance, like a famous actress. Love Orlov was called Russian Marlene Dietrich. She raised domestic cinema to a new level with her beauty and skill. Childhood and the beginning of his career, Lyubov Orlov was born on February 11 in a noble family. Her father Pyotr Fedorovich served in the military department and had rewards from the emperor.

The mother of Evgeny Sukhotin came from the old family of the State Council, General Nikolai Sukhotin, who served the head of the Nikolaev Military Academy and was related to Count Leo Tolstoy. The actress, by the way, was stored the book “Caucasian captive”, signed and donated to her as a child by the writer. Singer Fedor Chaliapin often looked into the House of Orlovs in Zvenigorod near Moscow.

Once he saw a home performance with the participation of young Lyuba and stated that the girl would become a famous artist. He advised his parents to give his daughter to the theater studio, but they more wanted to see the heiress as a musician. At seven, love was taken to a piano music school. And in M ​​she entered the Moscow Conservatory. But the time was troubled, and three years later the girl had to leave the educational institution in order to earn a living.

She began to teach music and work with taper in the capital's cinemas. Lyubov Orlova in the film "Funny Guys". Photo: a frame from the film of the year, however, during this period, Orlova managed to study in GITIS, which was then a simple theater technical school. At first, she was given small roles in performances, but her appearance and talent quickly determined the girl to the fore.

In the year, the director led her out of the choir, making the soloist of the operetta Jacques Offenbach “Pericola” - Orlova got a major role and became famous among theateraries. Viewers in crowds went to this production. Personal life in her youth, Lyubov Petrovna, married a prominent official of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture Andrei Berzin. Together they lived for four years, they arrested a man and exiled to Kazakhstan in m.

Two years later, Orlova met the Austrian impresario Franz Franz The story did not remember the name, with whom she lived in a civil marriage for several months. Well, in M ​​the actress met director Grigory Alexandrov, who made her famous. Their novel quickly led to the wedding. The couple lived together until the artist’s death, but they did not have children.

Lyubov Orlova in the film "Circus". Photo: A frame from the film of the year of the Cinema Year in the year the young actress was seen on stage by the novice film director Grigory Alexandrov. A friend-artist advised him to look at the talented girl in the theater. The director was struck by the beauty and skillful game Orlova, after which he invited her to shoot his film.

At that moment, he just needed an artist for the role of Anyuta in the film “Funny Guys”. Initially, this character was not so important: all the attention was paid to the hero Leonid Utesov and his orchestra “Thera-Jazz”. But during the filming, fascinated by Love Petrovna, the director increased the screen time of Anyuta, making her a full -fledged heroine. Utesov was offended and began to tease Alexandrov’s favorite on the topic that she plays a young girl at 32.

It is curious that the actress came to shoot with a foreign lawyer, and the director with his wife and child. But this did not prevent their stormy novel on the site, and after the end of the picture, the couple got married. Lyubov Orlova in the film "Volga-Volga". Photo: Global Look Press “Funny Guys” became Orlova’s hallmark: her magnificent soprano and the ability to dance made the image of Anyuta brilliant.

Lyubov Petrovna quickly became the star of Soviet cinema and even the beloved actress of Joseph Stalin himself. The authorities favored the blonde from the screen, and with her to the director Aleksandrov. A brilliant actress contributed to the fact that the cinema became a popular form of art in the USSR, squeezing the traditional theater both according to the box office and in the number of spectators.

In the year, the second film of Alexandrov was released in the year - the musical picture “Circus”, which broke a large box office. And in the main role, Lyubov Orlov appeared again. At the time of filming, she was already 34 years old, and her character was slightly over twenty. However, the audience did not notice the difference in age: on close -ups, the artist was removed in a “soft” focus.

The film received the Grand Prix at the World Exhibition in Paris, and in M ​​was awarded the Stalin Prize. Two years later, the Volga-Volga musical comedy came out-another creation of Tandem Orlova and Alexandrov. Lyubov Orlova in the film "Spring". Photo: Frame from the film of the year, even the war years did not arrange the popularity of Orlova.

The actress often escorted the soldiers to the front, traveled with concerts all the locations of the army - from Minsk to Kursk. And after the war, Lyubov Petrovna starred a lot. The musical comedy “Spring” was published in M, in which she again played a girl in love, although at that time she was already 44 years old. The lighting and angle of shooting hid age, but Orlova still decided that after the end of the film she would leave the cinema and become the actress of the Mossovet Theater.In order to arrange future colleagues to Lyubov Petrovna, her husband-director included in the cast of the picture of the leading artists of this theater-Rostislav Plyatt and Faina Ranevskaya.

A curious fact: it was in the “spring” that the famous Mosfilm screensaver with the image of the “worker and collective farmer” appeared for the first time. The premiere of the comedy was watched by 18 million Soviet spectators, the picture was also released abroad. She was sent to the first post -war Venice Film Festival, where the tape won prizes for the best script and the best actress - Orlova shared this award with Ingrid Bergman.

Lyubov Orlova in the film "Square and Lira." Photo: a frame from the film of the year in the theater Lyubov Petrovna continued to combine from the movie, the career decline was indicated from her only in the early years. Then the audience saw another comedy with her participation - “Russian Souvenir”. And only in M ​​did the film “Starry and Lira”, who became the last for the actress.

Look for news from the life of celebrities in the Telegram channel "Star dust". The resemblance to Marlene in his youth's appearance was significantly different from the image of the Soviet Marlene, which made her popular. Instead of platinum hair and thin eyebrows, Orlov stood out with a round face and dark chestnut braids. Moreover, Lyubov Petrovna loved her natural color very much, but her husband-director insisted that she should become a blonde.

Contemporaries noted that Alexandrov literally blinded her according to Marlene Dietrich. Orlova suddenly had many similar features with a Hollywood movie star. In “Funny guys”, Anyuta had exactly the same cylinder as Dietrich in the film “Blue Angel”. In the “circus”, the heroine of Orlova’s hair is black in half with platinums - like Marlene. Marlene Dietrich. There were rumors that Alexandrov was familiar with Dietrich and even twisted a novel with her.

After 30, the Primadonny Soviet cinema, Orlova carefully cared about her appearance and was the first domestic actress who regularly used the new products of cosmetology. There is a legend that she was the first to do plastic surgery. But even without surgical intervention, an aristocratic appearance and scrupulous grooming for a long time allowed a woman to hide her age. Even close friends and colleagues did not know the true year of her birth.

Death and memory Lyubov Orlov died on January 26 of the year at the age of 72 years. The cause of death was called pancreatic cancer. The star of the movie was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery. Grigory Alexandrov survived his wife for eight years. Love Orlova and Grigory Alexandrov. Photo: VK. Memorial coins and stamps were produced with her face. Two dozen documentary and artistic paintings were shot about the bright fate of Orlova.

In the year, the best lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky acquired the cottage of the actress and her husband in Vnukovo near Moscow. He became the owner of the personal archive of the great actress - her photographs and diaries. In an interview, the lawyer dispelled the myth that Lyubov Petrovna was in love with Stalin: Orlova allegedly hated the Secretary General since her first husband was sent to exile.

The lawyer counted in the diary of the Kino -Divine that one day Stalin invited her to dinner. There, the artist asked the fate of her disgraced spouse that Joseph Vissarionovich really did not like. After this episode, he no longer attempted to meet a star. By the way, even being in a relationship, Orlova always slept alone. During the arrest of Andrei Berzin, the Chekists “almost bayoned” a man from a married bed.

This episode left the artist a psychological trauma. In the year, the series “Orlova and Alexandrov” was released, shot on the basis of the biography of the actress. Olesya Sudzilovskaya, her husband, Anatoly Bely, played the main character.

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