Val Lewton
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Val Lewton was a Russian-American novelist, film producer, and screenwriter best known for a string of low-budget horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s. His son, also named Val Lewton
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Alla Nazimova
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Alla Aleksandrovna Nazimova was a Russian-born American actress. Hailed by modern scholars as the "founding mother of Sapphic Hollywood", Nazimova was a celebrated nonconformist artist who appeared in
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…son of moneylender Max Hofschneider and Anna "Nina" Leventon, a pharmacist's daughter. The family converted to Christianity. He was nephew of actress Alla Nazimova. His mother left his father and moved to Berlin, taking their two children with her. In 1909, they emigrated to the United States as second cabin class…
Nazimova in 1913
Nazimova and actor Charles Bryant in 1912
Nazimova with Herbert Brenon, 1916
Nazimova Marionettes