Love Orlova: filmography and biography

Love Orlova (1902-1975) - People's Artist of the USSR, known to the audience for the films "Circus", "Volga-Volga", "Russian Souvenir".

Biography: childhood

Lyubov Orlova was born, the filmography of which totals only eighteen films, on February 11, 1902 in the city of Zvenigorod. The mother of the future artist Yevgeny Sukhotin came from Tula and even was a distant relative of Count Leo Tolstoy. Grandmother of a girl in her youth was a maid of honor at the sister of the emperor of Russia.

Lyuba's father was Peter Orlov, although he was an ordinary official in the military chancery, but personally he knew Shalyapin, and even occasionally performed romances with him when they were staying together at a dacha near Sobinov. Often Shalyapin was a guest and at the Orlovs. Once, when Lyubov was only seven years old, she performed a role in the fairy-tale "Repka" before Shalyapin. The guest liked the game of the girl so much that he took her in his arms and said that she would be a wonderful actress.

In childhood, Orlova met with Leo Tolstoy. The well-known writer gave the girl his book "The Prisoner of the Caucasus" with a dedication inscription. This book Love Orlova, movies with which later instantly became megapopular in the USSR, carefully kept under the glass for many years.

Not all childhood years in the biography of the actress, unfortunately, were cloudless and happy. The girl's father was an avid gambler. He lost to the cards not only all the property of the family, but also three estates, which brought the main income to the family. Left without a livelihood, the family for some time moved to a small house in Zvenigorod, which belonged to the beloved mother. Orlova attended a gymnasium in Moscow, her parents, having lost their last money, left to live with their aunt in the city of Voskresensk, located in the suburbs. In the gymnasium, Lyubov studied music, attended classes on playing the piano. As a result, the girl began to play beautifully on the piano and for a while even moonlighting in the theater tapered.

Biography: career

In 1926, the girl went to work in the Stanislavsky Theater as a choir. Later in the same theater she was taken to the corps de ballet. The first role of Luba was Gercilia in the operetta of Nemirovich-Danchenko "Daughter of Ango". In this role, Orlova needed to pronounce only three phrases on the stage. Because of his agreeable nature, Lyubov Orlova (the filmography of the girl was quickly replenished with new roles) was liked by filmmakers as an actress. Soon she played a role in the play "Corneville Bells". Love was also moonlighting singing in front of the cinema shows in theaters.

Noticing the musical talents of Lubov Orlova, director Alexandrov invited her to the role in the movie "Jolly Fellows". At that time the girl sang well, danced and moved. With Anyone signed an employment contract, according to which she was to perform the role of Anyuta in the picture. The amount of the fee was very modest, but Orlova wanted to become a movie actress so much that she was ready to play in the film for free. "Funny guys" did not like the critics. Only thanks to the intervention of writer Maxim Gorky, the film was allowed to be released for hire. The picture received a lot of praise from the audience. Lubov Orlova became a well-known actress in the USSR. Now roles in the films she was offered one after another.

In 1936 on the screens there was a film "Circus" in which for the first time the song "Shiroka my native land" was sounded. Orlova performed in it the role of an American Marion Dixon, who came to the USSR with a circus on tour. At the International Exhibition in Paris, the film received the highest award. "Volga-Volga" - a comedy directed by Alexandrov, in which the main role, the postman Strelka, was performed by Lyubov Orlova. The filmography of the actress after the movie "Volga-Volga" was supplemented with the tapes "The Bright Path", "Artamonov's Case", "Spring" and others.

In the films Orlova sang, danced, played the piano, performed acrobatic numbers. To look good on the television screen, the actress already in those years resorted to plastic surgery. Well-groomed appearance, carefully selected wardrobe - something that always differed Love Orlov.

Biography: private life

The first husband Orlova became Andrei Berzin. He was older than Lyuba for ten years, was in the party and worked as an agronomist in the People's Commissariat of Agriculture. Her husband moved the entire family of Orlovs from Moscow to their Moscow apartment. Berzin fiercely defended his ideas and served time first in the Tsar's hard labor, and then in Stalin's prison. He was arrested in 1929, and his fate remained unknown for almost twenty years after that. It turned out that during these years he worked in Kazakhstan.

From 1932 to 1933 Lyubov Orlova lived in a civil marriage with a man from Austria named Franz.

The next chosen actress was director Grigory Alexandrov. Orlova fell in love with him at first sight. The director at that time was already married. Feelings were mutual. Love and Gregory were married and lived together until the death of the actress in 1975.

Orlova Lyubov Petrovna: the filmography of the actress

In the USSR, a large number of very different films were annually rented. In what films has Lyubov Orlova played during the years of her work in film? The filmography of the actress includes the following films:

• In 1934, the paintings "St. Petersburg Nights", "Jolly Fellows", "Love Alena."
• In 1936 the film "The Circus".
• In 1937 the film "Our Circus".
• In 1938 the painting "Volga-Volga".
• In 1939, "Error engineer Cochin."
• In 1940 the film "The Light Way".
• In 1941, the "Battle Cinema Book No. 4" and the painting "The Artamonov Affair".
• In 1943 the film "One".
• In 1947 the film "Spring".
• In 1949, "Meeting on the Elbe".
• In 1950, the painting "Mussorgsky."
• In 1952 the film "Composer Glinka".
• In 1960, the "Russian Souvenir".
• In 1963 the film "Melodies of Dunayevsky".
• In 1974, the painting "Starling and lyre."

Death of the actress

On the birthday of Alexandrov 23.01.1975, the actress lost consciousness. Orlova discovered pancreatic cancer. Three days later, the actress died. The funeral was organized at the Novodevichye Cemetery. Many people came to lead Love in the last way.

conclusions

Orlova is an actress whose fate was full of trials, ups and downs. Despite life's difficulties, Love has reached unprecedented popularity in the Soviet Union.

Not only Love Orlova herself - biography, personal life, the filmography of the actress, has always been the subject of conversations all over the USSR. The politician and the housewife were discussing the actress with equal enthusiasm. Lyubov Orlova is a laureate of the Stalin Prizes of the 1st degree in 1941 and 1950. In 1950, the actress received the title of People's Artist of the USSR.