Lyubov Orlova
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Lyubov Petrovna Orlova was a Soviet and Russian actress, singer, dancer, and People's Artist of the USSR.
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
Lyubov Orlova sings with Grigoi Aleksandrov in 1937
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
Lyubov Orlova
…In the future, no one was able to repeat this trick, it has stayed as a semi-legendary fact of history. In 1933, she met the then-unknown director Grigory Alexandrov, who was looking for actors for his film Jolly Fellows (1934). The two began a relationship and later married. Orlova's performance in this comedy…
Aleksandrov in 1934
Aleksandrov walking the wire as Glumov for Eisenstein's Wise Man production
Aleksandrov in the studio, 1950s