Magnificent film and theater actress Olga Vladimirovna Baklanova, the sister of the Soviet military commander Gleb Baklanov was born on August 19, 1896 in Moscow in a wealthy family. Her mother Alexandra, an actress in the past, devoted herself to raising children, and Olga received a classical education, and at the age of sixteen at the insistence of her mother and took part in a competitive recruitment to the Moscow Art Theater. Of the four hundred applicants, Olga Baklanova was accepted into
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Magnificent film and theater actress Olga Vladimirovna Baklanova, the sister of the Soviet military commander Gleb Baklanov was born on August 19, 1896 in Moscow in a wealthy family. Her mother Alexandra, an actress in the past, devoted herself to raising children, and Olga received a classical education, and at the age of sixteen at the insistence of her mother and took part in a competitive recruitment to the Moscow Art Theater. Of the four hundred applicants, Olga Baklanova was accepted into the troupe of the famous K. S. Stanislavsky.
She began her career early: “Symphony of Love and Death” (1914), “The Afterlife Vagrant” (1915), “Vampire Woman” (1915), “The Loop of Death” (1915) and many other paintings were always accompanied by bright and catchy roles performed by Baklanova.
After the revolution, she married lawyer Vladimir Tsoppi, with whom she gave birth to a son. She continued to act a lot, played in the theater and for high skill in 1925 received the title of Honored Artist of the Republic. As part of the troupe, Baklanova went on tour abroad and stayed in the United States, where in 1927 she starred in a small role in the film “Dove”. In this film, Baklanova was seen by Conrad Feidt and invited to his new film “The Man Who Laughs” based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. After the release of the film on wide screens in Hollywood lit the star Olga Baklanova.
“The Secret of the Queen”, “Sin Street”, “Docks of New York”, “Avalanche”, “Forgotten Faces”, “Three Sinners”, “The Wolf of Wall Street” – the Russian emigrant did not miss a single role.
In 1929, she divorced her lawyer and married Nicholas Susanin, an immigrant and actor like herself. Invitations to shoot especially should not be and the spouses were interrupted by small episodic roles. In the early thirties, she starred in her last films: “The Great Lover”, “Down the stairs”, “Down the stairs”.
Freaks "Billion Dollar Scandal" and the short musical "Blues on the Phone", and then left the cinema.
Olga Baklanova focused on the theater, but her career continued with varying success, relations with her husband deteriorated and in 1939 they divorced. Olga married for the third time. Her chosen one - the owner of the New York theater Richard Davis insisted that his wife left the stage and after several performances Baklanov resigned. In 1974, at the age of seventy-eight, Olga Baklanova died. /