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Aleksandr Semenovich Menaker
Александр Менакер
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8 April 1913 - 6 March 1982
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Born on September 12, 1913 in Moscow. In 1929, he entered the acting department of the 1st Art Studio at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre, in 1930 he moved to the directing faculty of the Institute of Stage Arts. Since 1932 he worked in the State Association of Music, Pop and Circus and in Lengorestrad, performing musical parodies and feuilletons. Since 1933 - in the Leningrad Music Hall, since 1934 - actor, director, since 1935 - artistic director at the Jazz Theater of the All-Ukrainian House of the
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Born on September 12, 1913 in Moscow.
In 1929, he entered the acting department of the 1st Art Studio at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre, in 1930 he moved to the directing faculty of the Institute of Stage Arts. Since 1932 he worked in the State Association of Music, Pop and Circus and in Lengorestrad, performing musical parodies and feuilletons.
Since 1933 - in the Leningrad Music Hall, since 1934 - actor, director, since 1935 - artistic director at the Jazz Theater of the All-Ukrainian House of the Red Army in Kharkov. In 1936-38 - in the Leningrad Music Hall. In 1939 - in the Moscow theater of pop and miniatures, where he first performed with M.V. Mironova with musical humoresques.
In 1942 he was the director of the anti-fascist program “That’s good!”, the author and performer of the musical feuilleton “Pray for him!” One of the directors of the program “Moscow countrymen” (1942).
In 1948, after the theater closed, Menaker and Mironova began to perform independently.
Among their first joint works: "Moscow meetings", "Family portraits".
Menaker and Mironova participated in the program of the theater "Hermitage" and "Here comes the steamer" (1954). Since 1954, Menaker and Mironova - in the Moscow stage theater until its closure. In these years, the Theatre of two actors - Mironova and Menaker (director and artistic director) released the play "Talking Letters", a review "In Our House" (mainly on the texts of Laskin), the play "Family Affairs" (1954), the basis of which was Laskin's play "Hearing the divorce case".
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1978).
He died on March 6, 1982. Heart disease, two heart attacks... He died suddenly and his heart stopped.