Since You Went Away
1944
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Alla Nazimova (Russian: Алла Назимова; 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. She later ...
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. Alla Nazimova was born Miriam Edez Adelaida Leventon in 1879, in Yalta, Crimea, in the ...
Mar 28, 2024 · Alla Nazimova (born June 4, 1879, Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died July 13, 1945, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.) was a Russian-born and Russian-trained actress who won fame on the American stage and screen.
In the late 1910s, Crimea-born theater star Alla Nazimova became the highest-paid movie actress in the world, earning a staggering $13,000 a week with Metro Pictures, the forerunner of today’s...
Alla Nazimova is often credited as Nazimova. She used the pseudonym Peter M. Winters for her work as a screenwriter. While the credits on the films and FIAF and AFI limit Nazimova’s contributions to producer and actress, and for a few titles, screenwriter, her work on her films was quite extensive.
Jun 16, 2022 · The incredible life of Alla Nazimova, Jewish superstar of the 1920s, is the focus of a new one-woman play. By Emily Jaeger June 16, 2022 2:56 pm. Romy Nordlinger channels Alla Nazimova in...
Dec 28, 2023 · 1918: Tremendously Happy, Alla Nazimova. Jon Ponder. 1890s Farms and Estates. 1923: Addiction Kills Movie Star Wallace Reid. In 1918, Alla Nazimova, the famed Broadway actress, was lured to Hollywood by Metro Pictures, one of the studios that later became MGM.
