Lyubov Orlova
Lyubov Petrovna Orlova (born 29 Januarjul / February 11 1902greg in Zvenigorod, .. † January 26, 1975 in Moscow ) was the first star of Soviet cinema, theater actress and singer.
Life
Her father Peter Orlov served as a military engineer and came from the tsar dynasty of Rurik, more precisely, the prince of Tver. Her mother Yevgenia Suchotina came from an old noble family.
Lyubov grew up in Yaroslavl on the Volga River, 280 kilometers northeast of Moscow. The parents dreamed that her daughter is a pianist, and sent Lyubov already with seven years in the piano lessons.
Among the friends of the family were among many artists, including opera singer Feodor Chaliapin. As Chaliapin once again stayed at the home Orlov, Lyubov played in a children's theater, on which the opera singer to have said: " This girl is a famous actress! "
She studied at the Moscow Conservatory, but had to stop the study. In the years 1922-1925 she studied at the Moscow Ballet Academy, a division of the Moscow Theatre School. This training was the foundation of their work in the years 1926-1933 at the Nemirovich -Danchenko Music Theatre, one led by Vladimir Nemirovich -Danchenko department of the Moscow Art Theatre.
Orlova in 1934 made her film debut Notsch as Grushenka in Dostoyevsky Grigori Roschals adaptation Peterburgskaja. With the movie Jolly Fellows (1934 ) they earned Stalin's sympathies and the following year the award " Honored Artist of the RSFSR ." Then they became mostly directed by Grigori Aleksandrov with your roles in musical comedies for female superstar of Soviet film. The following four films Circus ( 1936), Volga -Volga (1938 ), The bright path (1940 ) and Spring (1947 ) earned her several awards and were immediately each classics of Soviet film.
Orlova was awarded the Lenin Prize. 1941 ( for circus and Volga -Volga ) and 1950 ( for meeting on the Elbe ), she received respectively the Stalin Prize. In 1947 she was awarded the People's Artist of the RSFSR, 1950, she also received the award as a People's Artist of the USSR. In addition to the medal " For the Defense of the Caucasus" Orlova twice received the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.
After two composers ' biographies - Melody of Life (1950 ) by Modest Mussorgsky and song of home (1952 ) by Mikhail Glinka - Orlova went back increasingly to theater and played from 1955 on Mossoviet Theatre.
Orlova was with the film director Grigori Aleksandrov - the author of Jolly Fellows, Circus and Volga -Volga - married. In 1984 the film compilation of Alexandrov together with Jelena Mihailova made about them Lyubov Orlova.
Others
- One on the Crimean Observatory, discovered by Soviet astronomer of Ljudmyla Schurawlowa in Nautschnyj on August 18, 1972 Small Planet of the asteroid belt is called 3108 Lyubov (1972 QM).
- Orlova was named after the passenger ship built in 1976 Lyubovy Orlova.