Grigori Aleksandrov
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Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov was a Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1973. He was awarded the Stalin Prizes for 1941 and 195
Aleksandrov in 1934
Aleksandrov walking the wire as Glumov for Eisenstein's Wise Man production
Aleksandrov in the studio, 1950s
Aleksandrov singing with his wife Orlova in 1937
Lyubov Orlova
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Lyubov Petrovna Orlova was a Soviet and Russian actress, singer, dancer, and People's Artist of the USSR.
Grigori Aleksandrov
…Aleksandrov became a major director in his own right in the 1930s, when he directed Jolly Fellows and a string of other musical comedies starring his wife Lyubov Orlova. Though Aleksandrov remained active until his death, his musicals, amongst the first made in the Soviet Union, remain his most popular films. They rival…
Orlova with her State Stalin Prize badge in 1945
Lyubov Orlova's parents, Evgeniya Nikolaevna Sukhotina (1863—1945) and Pyotr Fedorovich Orlov (1867—1938), 19th century
Lyubov Orlova with her parents, early 1930s