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OLGA BAKLANOVA , RUSSIAN -AMERICAN ACTRESS BORN 1893 AUGUST 19 - 1974 SEPTEMBER 6

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 OLGA BAKLANOVA , RUSSIAN -AMERICAN ACTRESS BORN 1893 AUGUST 19 - 1974 SEPTEMBER 6   Olga Vladimirovna Baklanova ( Russian : О́льга Влади́мировна Бакла́нова ; 19 August 1893 – 6 September 1974), known professionally as Olga Baclanova, was a Russian actress, opera singer, and ballerina. [1] She achieved prominence during the silent film era, after taking several years off her age and changing the spelling of her Russian surname from Baklanova. She was often billed under her last name only, as Baclanova, similarly to the surname-only nomenclature of her fellow countrywoman Nazimova . [2] [3] [4] An exotic blonde temptress, she was known as the "Russian Tigress". She emigrated to America in 1925, and started appearing in Hollywood films, which she remains most noted for portraying the fictional Duchess Josiana in the Universal Pictures silent The Man Who Laughs and evil circus trapeze artist Cleopatra in Tod Browning 's cult horror movie Freaks (1932), which featu...

OLGA ZUBARRY ,ARGENTINA ACTRESS BORN 1929 OCTOBER 30,

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OLGA ZUBARRY ,ARGENTINA ACTRESS BORN 1929 OCTOBER 30, Olga Zubarry (30 October 1929- 15 December 2012) was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in film between 1943 and 1997. She made over 60 appearances in film, spanning 6 decades of Argentine cinema, but is best known for her work during the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema. Throughout the course of her career, she received four Silver Condor Awards, two Martín Fierro Awards, a Konex Foundation Award and several others for her films and television performances. She is credited with starring in the first film in Argentina which featured nudity, though only her back was shown and she stated repeatedly that she wore a flesh-colored mesh and was not truly nude. Biography[edit source] Olga Adela Zubiarriaín was born on 30 October 1929[1][2] in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Parque de los Patricios.[3] She attended 3 years at the Liceo Nacional de Señoritas Nº1 José Figueroa Alcorta, but quit school when her acting care...

HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS OLGA BACLANOVA RUSSIAN BEAUTY DIED 1974 SEPTEMBER 6

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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...