#russian actress

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Russian actress V.Istomina as Vasilisa Melentyevna in the play of the same name,Saint Petersburg

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Marina Aleksandrova photographed by Alekseii Kolpakov for HELLO Magazine (2023)

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Thanks to this clip, Sergey Lazarev's song "Make A Wish For Love/Загадай любовь" will forever be associated with Mark and Dasha.

They have amazing chemistry both in the film and in real life.

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Natalya Varley Russian Actress

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Alla Nazimova ❤️

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Yelana Proklova

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portrait of actress

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"Prior to the advent of Dietrich, studios had been scrambling for a Garbo in their backlot. Now they wanted a Dietrich as well. Browless, languid, chain-smoking creatures poured into Hollywood from every corner of the globe. If they weren't born with a foreign accent, they quickly acquired one. They appeared through screens of cigarette smoke and vanished into them as quickly as they arrived … Hollywood talent scouts rummaged through Europe, returning with waves of exotics in their tow. In the search for substitutes many talented actresses were sacrificed." / From the book Marlene Dietrich (1968) by John Kobal /

The sacrificed talented continental actresses Kobal cites would number Franciska Gaal, Sari Maritza, Isa Miranda, Gwili Andre … and exquisite Russian actress Anna Sten (née Anna Petrovna Fesak, 3 December 1908 - 12 November 1993), who died on this day thirty years ago. In the 1930s Sten faced constant unfavorable comparisons to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich (who could measure up to them?) but she was a radiant, sensitive actress in her own right. Her key Hollywood vehicles Nana (1934), We Live Again (1934) and The Wedding Night (1935) were all critical and commercial failures, but in retrospect they’re interesting failures and worth catching (some of them are viewable on Amazon Prime). Funnily enough, one of my favourite Sten performances is much later in the forgotten 1956 juvenile delinquent exploitation flick Runaway Daughters. In a secondary role, Sten plays the adulterous “bad role model” mother still clinging to her partying flapper ways into middle age, and she attacks the part with a febrile intensity that anticipates Isabella Rossellini. 

Anna Sten, 1934 (by pictosh)

…for “The Wedding Night” (USA 1935)

Costume Design by Omar Kiam

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Russian actress Yelizaveta Sadovskaya as Ariel in the play "The Tempest",Moscow (1905)

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Sofia Nikitchuk (Sofia Viktorovna Nikitchuk) - Russian Actress -

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Renata Litvinova

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"Accents have always had it tough in Tinseltown. For every Garbo and Dietrich there are dozens of Franciska Gaals from The Buccaneer and from Hungary. That faraway quality in their voices sent them far away after casting directors ran out of foreign outposts in which to station them. (Samuel) Goldwyn tried hard with Anna Sten, or Anna Stench, as she was known to his stockholders. He spent a fortune promoting Sten, but in glamorizing her he buried her natural beauty under doll-like make-up. She’s remembered as a famous flop, Goldwyn’s very own Edsel.” / From the book Flesh and Fantasy by Penny Stallings (1978) /

Born on this day 115 years ago: exquisite Russian actress Anna Sten (née Anjuschka Stenski Sudakewitsch, 3 December 1908 - 12 November 1993). Ignore received wisdom! In an ideal world, Sten (who looked like a Tamara de Lempicka painting come to life) would be remembered as a luminous, sensitive, fragile and intense actress who was bedeviled by unfavorable comparisons to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich (who could measure up to them?). Her key Hollywood vehicles Nana (1934), We Live Again (1934) and The Wedding Night (1935) were all critical and box office failures, but they’re interesting failures and worth catching (some of them are viewable on Amazon Prime). Pictured: portrait of Sten in Nana.

Anna Sten dans Nana, 1934.