Since You Went Away
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Alla Nazimova born Marem-Ides Leventon, Russian: Марем-Идес Левентон; June 3 [ O.S. May 22], 1879 – July 13, 1945) was a Russian-American actress, director, producer and screenwriter. On Broadway, she was noted for her work in the classic plays of Ibsen, Chekhov and Turgenev.
Crimea-born actress Alla Nazimova was once the highest-paid film actress in the world. After a series of scandals and box-office flops, her name is mostly lost to history.
Alla Nazimova seduced Hollywood’s most beautiful actresses, threw the wildest parties, and lived a life filled with intrigue—yet few know her dark history.
Alla Nazimova. Actress: Salomé. The grand, highly flamboyant Russian star Alla Nazimova of Hollywood silent films lived an equally grand, flamboyant life off-camera, though her legendary status has not held up as firmly as that of a Rudolph Valentino today.
Jul 4, 2024 · Born in Russia in 1879, Alla Nazimova witnessed her parents’ deeply unhappy marriage and suffered abuse at the hands of her father. According to one report, he cruelly twisted and broke...
Salomé is a 1922-23 American silent drama film directed by Charles Bryant and Alla Nazimova, [1] who also stars. It is an adaptation of the 1891 Oscar Wilde play of the same name.
Welcome to the Alla Nazimova Society. In the 1910s and 1920s, one of the brightest lights on America’s theatrical stage and on its cinematic screen was actor, director, writer and producer Alla Nazimova. Few women shined as brightly but now she languishes largely forgotten and neglected.
Mar 25, 2016 · Back then, Alla Nazimova was the brilliant star of stage and film who had managed to gain critical and commercial success– as well as Hollywood power and influence. But there was more to this Russian-born actress, whose personal and public faces were so different– then soon came together.
Jan 31, 2022 · Nazimova died of a coronary thrombosis in 1945, age 66, in the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles. Her contributions to the film industry have been recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. These fabulous photos captured portraits of Alla Nazimova in the early 20th century.
Jan 11, 2021 · Alla Nazimova (“NAH-zim-oh-va”) was born in 1879, in Yalta, a seaside resort city on the Crimean peninsula in what was then Czarist Russia. Her name at birth was Adelaida Leventon, but she was called Alla, a diminutive for Adelaida.
