HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS OLGA BACLANOVA RUSSIAN BEAUTY DIED 1974 SEPTEMBER 6
HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS OLGA BACLANOVA RUSSIAN BEAUTY DIED 1974 SEPTEMBER 6 She was born Olga Vladimirovna Baclanova on August 19, 1893, in Moscow, Russia. Her parents, Vladimir Baclanoff and his wife Alexandra, had a strong interest in the arts. The family was wealthy and her mother, Alexandra, had given up her theatrical ambitions to marry and raise six children. After her father took Olga to a theater rehearsal at age ten, her love of the stage never wavered. Upon completion of her classical education at the Cherniavsky Institute in Moscow, Olga in the title role of La Perichole (1920) at the Moscow Art Theatre Musical Studio in Russia. Olga competed with 400 aspiring students for three openings at the Moscow Art Theatre. Despite stiff competition, she was accepted at the M.A.T. at the age of nineteen. During her apprenticeship she would often spend the summers in the Crimea, where unbeknownst to the d...