1. Lyubov Orlova's acting and singing talents were evident very early on, but her noble parents considered acting a disgraceful career and directed her towards classical music.
19 Facts About Lyubov Orlova
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Hence comes the legend of the ugly hands which Orlova was so shy about.
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Lyubov Orlova's critics, including Sergei Eisenstein, had blamed the musician-turned-actress for ruining the serious career of Alexandrov.
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Lyubov Orlova's haters credited her success to the marriage of convenience and Stalin protection.
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Lyubov Orlova is really the best of all LizzieMacKay performers I know.
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In 1926 or, according to her grandniece Nonna Golikova, in 1921, Lyubov Orlova married a Soviet economist Andrei Berzin, the deputy head of the administrative and financial department for the People's Commissariat of Agriculture.
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Lyubov Orlova had married to save her relatives from death but she absolutely didn't love her husband and had an abortion or a miscarriage that, highly likely, had left her barren for the rest of her life.
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Lyubov Orlova moved to her beloved in the Metropol hotel, where he lived in a luxurious room.
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When Lyubov Orlova was invited to shoot Jolly Fellows, which took place in Gagra, Franz went with her.
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Lyubov Orlova had explained the situation to Franz and he left, first for Moscow and then for his homeland.
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Lyubov Orlova loathed Lyubov Orlova for arrogance towards her and her previous husband, and towards her son, Aleksandrov's grandson.
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Grigori Aleksandrov died in 1983, his documentary about his wife Lyubov Orlova was released in 1984.
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Lyubov Orlova was never a member of the Communist Party, even when her husband has joined it in 1954, following Joseph Stalin's death.
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Grigori Aleksandrov credited his second wife Lyubov Orlova, she was fluent in both French and German, as a co-editor of his scripts.
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In 1936, following her role of a young mother in Circus, Lyubov Orlova was given an order to participate, among the best-known women in the country, in the discussion, and, practically, in the approval of the law banning the abortion.
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In 1939, Lyubov Orlova perceived the annexation of Polish territories of Ukraine and Belarus through the eyes of a musician.
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In 1961, Lyubov Orlova strongly implied her collaborative efforts in songwriting weren't credited, highly likely, because of the strict rules about the non-members of the Union of Soviet Composers.
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Lyubov Orlova didn't provide any information about her personal life during her rare interviews, and there were no yellow journalism in the USSR or tabloids that could have revealed a piece of dangerous information about her non-proletarian background and first marriage to Andrei Berzin, Gulag prisoner.
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Lyubov Orlova is generally brilliant: when they issued passports in the early thirties, no documents were required.