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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.
May 31, 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.
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. 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.
In the early 20th century, 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.
Nazimova, Alla (1879–1945) Russian actress who enjoyed a varied career as silentfilm star, director, producer, and as one of the most brilliant theater actresses of her era. Pronunciation: Allah Naz-IM-ohvah.
Alla Nazimova, one of the most exotic actresses of the late 1910s and 1920s, had an exotic Russian background to begin with. Born of Jewish parents in Yalta, and educated in a Swiss Catholic convent, she took up the violin and in her school orchestra played under Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.
Kenneth Anger’s claim that Nazimova hired only “homosexual” cast members cannot be verified, but retains significant power (Anger 1975, 113). As film historian Patricia White puts it, Salome stands today as a unique effort to produce a “female movie modernism” (White 2002, 61).
Jun 16, 2022 · That busy Manhattan corner once housed Nazimova’s 39th Street Theater, named for pioneering Jewish producer, screenwriter, director, actor and onetime international sensation, Alla Nazimova.
Alla Nazimova (Russian and Ukrainian: Алла Назимова; 3 June [O.S. 22 May] 1879 – 13 July 1945) was an American film and theatre actress, a screenwriter, and film producer.
