By the way, according to a 2010 survey, Vysotsky was voted second most beloved idol of the 20th century, after Yurin Gagarin. Vysotsky was also famous as a film and theater actor, and one of his major roles was Hamlet in the Taganka Theatre. Vysotsky's calling card was his low hoarse voice, which can immediately be recognized in his soul-rending, guitar chord-ripping songs several generations of Soviet citizens grew up on these songs. 5. The principal bard, Vladimir VysotskyĪctor Vladimir Vysotsky in Georgia. In Look for a Woman (1982) he plays a villain who kills the lover of his boss's wife. One of his most memorable roles was in the film Carnival (1981), in which he seduces a simple girl from a village and then abandons her. Source: Dmitry Korobeinikov/RIA NovostiĪbdulov and his first wife Irina Alferova were the most beautiful film couple in the Soviet Union. 4. The most charming scoundrel, Alexander AbdulovĪlexander Abdulov, actor of the Lenkom Theater. This film popularized and immortalized the phrase, "There's a profession called defending your country." It helped make the military one of the most prestigious professions. Another of Lanovoy’s major roles was in the cult film Officers (1971), in which men from three generations of the same family go to different wars and become heroes. His most important roles are related to love stories: the young Captain Arthur Grey in the film Scarlet Sails (1961), Anotol Juragin in Bondarchuk's screen adaption of Tolstoy's War and Peace (1966-1967), and Alexei Vronsky in Anna Karenina (1967). He also had a unique timbre and still hasn’t lost his charm. It’s enough to look at Lanovoy to understand why women loved him.
Vasily Lanovoi as Anatol Kuragin on set of the movie 'War and Peace' directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. 3. The main romantic hero, Vasily Lanovoy His friends remembered that he was calm, diligent and cheerful – an ideal man. The first man to visit the stars was a real idol. The photograph of Gagarin in his spacesuit took the world by storm, and then Gagarin himself did his famous world tour as a superstar. Upon returning to Earth he had to conquer everyone with his smile. Some people say the decisive factor in selecting Gagarin as the first man to go to space was his radiant smile.
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union Yury Gagarin. Watch the films and tell us who’s better - Vyacheslav Tikhonov, or Richard Gere. Later, Tikhonov starred in a dozen other films, such as the Soviet version of the story of Hachikō, White Bim Black Ear (1977).
Tikhonov won fame and admiration thanks to his roles as a teacher in the drama We'll Live Till Monday (1968), as Andrei Bolkonsky in Sergei Bondarchuk's epic series War and Peace (1966-1967) and as Soviet spy Stierlitz in the cult TV series Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) where Stierlitz works as an SS-officer in Nazi Germany, constantly risking his life and showing his courage. She gave Cary Grant one of his first featured roles.Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Stierlitz (R) in feature film "Seventeen Moments of Spring" directed by Tatiana Lioznova. One of the first female screenwriters, West controlled and crafted her material herself. West would continue battling censors in Hollywood. She scored a couple more successes and was signed by Paramount. West was brought up on obscenity charges and jailed for ten days. Her first play Sex caused controversy and the police stopped the show.
After several years in stock, she moved into burlesque and began to write her own material. The daughter of a heavyweight boxer, West went into entertainment at the age of five. Labelled box office poison, Crawford jumped to Warner Brothers.
She started out the flapper in the 20s, the hardworking girl in the 30s and the glamor queen in the 40s. Hardworking, Crawford would change with the decades. While a part of a Broadway chorus line, she was signed to MGM. Lombard would become the queen of screwball comedies and one of the most versatile actresses ever.īorn Lucille LaSueur, Crawford began her career as a dancer. In 1934, Lombard’s big break came opposite John Barrymore in the Howard Hawks directed Twentieth Century. She appeared in two dozen of the Sennett trademark style two-reelers. Lombard began to gain her comedy chops two years later when she signed with the comedy giant of the silent era Mack Sennett. She completed junior high and returned to films in 1925 with Fox. A great actress and one of the best female comediennes, Lombard’s first role came at the age of twelve. Born in Fort Wayne Indiana, her family moved to California when she was six.