Olga Baclanova
Olga Baclanova; actually Olga Vladimirovna Baklanowa, Russian Ольга Владимировна Бакланова; * ( 7 Augustjul / August 19 1896greg in Moscow, .. † September 6, 1974 in Vevey, Switzerland ) was a Russian actress of the late silent movies and early sound era.
Biography
She began her career as an actress in Moscow and emigrated in 1923 during a tour in the United States. After a small supporting role in The Dove with Norma Talmadge in 1928 she got a contract with Paramount, which they tried to launch a " new Garbo " under the name Baclanova with massive publicity. Olga Baclanova had her breakthrough with a role in Josef von Sternberg's masterpiece Docks of New York, and next to Emil Jannings in Street of Sin, directed by Mauritz Stiller.
The highlight of their short-lived career was the year 1929 when the rotated with much effort film A Dangerous Woman Baclanova presented as amoral seductress in Indochina, who died at the end by a snake bite. Something similar happened to the film that was not a wide audience, given the less convincing story and in the light of the triumphant march of the talking. Your strong accent at first prevented that Olga Baclanova found work in sound films. Only some time later, she returned to MGM in some supporting roles back to the big screen, including Downstairs, in which John Gilbert co-authored the screenplay, and turned with freaks, an adventurous horror story directed by Tod Browning, her best-known film.
In later years, Olga Baclanova worked increasingly in the theater and on the radio.
In an interview with John Kobal, which was reprinted in People Will Talk, they commented negatively about the collaboration with von Sternberg, whose leadership style she perceived as autocratic.