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Alla Nazimova

Alla Nazimova

Actress

From Wikipedia Alla Nazimova (Russian and Ukrainian: Алла Назимова; 3 June [O.S. 22 May] 1879 – 13 July 1945) was an American film and theatre actress, a screenwriter, and film producer. She is perhaps best known as simply Nazimova, but also went under the name Alia Nasimoff. She emigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire. In 1927, Nazimova became a naturalized citizen of the United States. She was signed up by the American producer Henry Miller and made her Broadway debut in New York City, in 1906 to critical and popular success. She quickly became extremely popular (a theatre was named after her) and remained a major Broadway star for years, often acting in the plays of Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov. Dorothy Parker described her as the finest Hedda Gabler she had ever seen. Due to her notoriety in a 35-minute 1915 play entitled War Brides, Nazimova made her silent film debut in 1916 in the filmed version of the play, which was produced by Lewis J. Selznick. A young actor with a bit part in the movie was Richard Barthelmess whose mother taught Nazimova English. In 1917, she negotiated a contract with Metro Pictures, a precursor to MGM, that included a weekly salary of $13,000. She moved from New York to Hollywood, where she made a number of highly successful films for Metro that earned her considerable money. She was influential in the film industry in the silent era and continued to play character roles until the end of her life. Between the years of 1917 and 1922 Nazimova wielded considerable influence and power in Hollywood. By all accounts she was extremely generous to young actresses in whom she saw talent and became involved with at least some of them romantically. By 1925 Nazimova could no longer afford to invest in more films; and financial backers withdrew their support. Left with few options, she gave up on the film industry, returning to perform on Broadway, notably starring as Natalya Petrovna in Rouben Mamoulian's 1930 New York production of Turgenev's A Month in the Country and an acclaimed performance as Mrs. Alving in Ibsen's Ghosts. In the early 1940s, she appeared in a few more films, playing Robert Taylor's mother in Escape (1940) and Tyrone Power's mother in Blood and Sand (1941). This late return to motion pictures fortunately preserves Nazimova and her art on sound film. She died of a coronary thrombosis, age 66, in the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles. Her ashes were interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Her contributions to the film industry have been recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Born: June 3, 1879 in Yalta, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire [now Crimea, Ukraine]

Died: July 13, 1945 (Age 66)

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Alla Nazimova  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
7.3
ActressZofia Koslowska1944
Movie
6.9
ActressSenora Augustias1941
Movie
6.4
ActressSalomé1922
Movie
6.8
ActressEmmy Ritter1940
Movie
5.4
ActressDoña Maria - The Marquesa1944
Movie
6.3
ActressMarguerite Gautier1921
Movie
6.1
ActressPrincess Triloff1920
Movie
6
ActressNora Helmer1922
Movie
6.4
ActressMahlee & Blanche Sackville1919
Movie
ActressFaith / Eve1919
Movie
5.1
ActressHassouna1918
Movie
6.1
ActressJoan1916
Movie
7
ActressJane Goring / Gloria Cromwell1920
Movie
ActressJoline1918
Movie
6.8
ActressSigrid Fersen1920
Movie
ActressAna Silva1925
Movie
7.5
ActressMary Carlson / Mary Ainsleigh1924
Movie
6.4
ActressZofia Orwid (as Nazimova)1944
Movie
ActressSally Snape (as Nazimova)1920
Movie
6.9
ActressSelf (archive footage)1961
Movie
ActressThe Brat1919
Movie
ActressJoan1925
Movie
ActressZorah / Hagah1918
Short Film
5.3
ActressSelf1940
Short Film
ActressLouise1918
Short Film
ActressSelf (archive footage)1942
Movie
6.4
DirectingProducer, Director1922
Movie
6.1
EditingEditor1920
Movie
6
WritingWriter, Producer1922
Movie
5.1
DirectingDirector1918
Movie
7
WritingAdaptation, Producer, Writer1920
Movie
WritingWriter1919
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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