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Mariya Skvorcova
Мария Скворцова
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4 April 1911 - 1 December 2000
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Soviet theater and film actress Maria Savelyevna Skvortsova was born on April 4, 1911 in the invisible village of Turino. At the age of ten, she moved to Moscow, to her older brothers. Young Mary from childhood sang well, even participated in the church choir.
Together with friends, after graduation, she went to audition for the All-Union Radio Committee. Of all the contenders, she was immediately noticed and singled out by the then famous actress Seraphim Birman. This was the day of Mary’s death.
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Soviet theater and film actress Maria Savelyevna Skvortsova was born on April 4, 1911 in the invisible village of Turino. At the age of ten, she moved to Moscow, to her older brothers. Young Mary from childhood sang well, even participated in the church choir.
Together with friends, after graduation, she went to audition for the All-Union Radio Committee. Of all the contenders, she was immediately noticed and singled out by the then famous actress Seraphim Birman. This was the day of Mary’s death. On the recommendation of S. Birman, she enters her theater studio for training. And after four years of study, along with the whole course, she goes to the Great Lukes. There was a revival of the local theater, the actress of which was Maria.
In 1941, the theater was evacuated to the city of Irbit, Sverdlovsk region, and since 1943, Maria Savelyevna, as part of the front-line theater brigade of the Second Baltic Front, constantly went with concerts to the soldiers of the Red Army. After the war, she became an actress of the Tsaritsyn Theatre of Young Spectators. Roles were different, from bunnies in children's mornings to Nilovna in the Gorky play "Mother". At the same time, she married the actor of the regional youth theater Semyon Mikhailovich Skvortsov, whose surname she wore all her creative life.
In the movie Maria Savelyevna Skvortsova came quite late. And audiences know her mainly for episodic roles. But each of them M. S. Skvortsova was able to turn into a true masterpiece. Especially remembered her work in the film Vasily Shukshin “Kalina Red”, where she perfectly played the mother of the main character, Lyuba performed by Lydia Fedoseyeva-Shukshina. She had the opportunity to star in talented Soviet film directors together with famous film actors, such as Vyacheslav Tikhonov (“White Bim Black Ear”), Mikhail Kozakov, Leonid Broneva, Oleg Yankovsky (“Trustees”). Alexander Mitta shot Maria Skvortsova in his famous
"Crew" . Skvortsov died on December 1, 2000, outliving her husband and son. /