biography
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Nazimova, Alla
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originally Alla Leventon
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pronunciation:
[nazimohva]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1879–1945)
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| biography:
| Actress, born in Yalta, S Ukraine. She studied in Moscow under Stanislavsky, and made her debut with the Paul Orleneff Company in St Petersburg in 1904, with whom she visited the USA. Such was the impression she made that she was asked to learn English to appear in New York City as Hedda Gabler in 1905. In 1910 she rechristened the 39th Street Theatre ‘The Nazimova’, and became a highly popular dramatic actress, specializing in the plays of Ibsen, Turgenev, Chekhov, and O'Neill. She also had a successful period in films, which included Camille, A Doll's House, and her own Salomé, based on the Beardsley illustrations to Wilde's play. |
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