Marina Ladynina - the great Soviet actress

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The famous Marina Ladynina lived a long life. She was a great actress, she was very fond of the Soviet people, and many of her works received government awards of the highest rank. In her 95-year life, she knew the years of the highest glory and the time of complete oblivion.

The very beginning of a career

Marina Ladynina was born in 1908 into a peasant family in the village of Skotinino. The name is really unsympathetic, and the future actress in the documents changed the village of Skotinino to Nazarovo, a settlement where the family moved shortly after the birth of Marina. The girl grew up surprisingly pretty, smart and mobile. Later, it seemed to Marina Alekseevna that from birth she wanted to become only an actress. The little girl received her first flowers for theatrical activity at the age of six - she played the fairy of Spring in a rural performance so talentedly that the landowner's son gave her a rose from his own garden.

With a dream of theater

Marina Ladynina learned to read very early, taught literacyyounger sisters and brother (there were four children in the family), and all this time she either participated in all kinds of amateur performances, or simply danced, read poetry or sang, even in the countryside with visiting gypsies. She played her first big role in the school play (Natasha from Pushkin's "Mermaid") so well that she received praise from her mother, who did not want to hear about her daughter's acting future. After receiving a secondary education, a talented girl began to work as a teacher, first in her native village, and then in Achinsk, where there was a drama theater, to which Marina was invited to replace sick actresses. Some actors strongly advised the girl to study theatrical skills.

First films

In 1929, Marina Ladynina went to Moscow on a Komsomol ticket to the Faculty of Social Sciences, and entered GITIS. Moreover, in the examination sheet opposite her last name, a note was made about her special talent. In 1932, she played a small role as a blind flower girl in the silent film No Entering the City. After graduating from college, she was taken to the Moscow Art Theater, but Ladynina continued to act in films when she was invited.

In 1935, she played in the film "Enemy's Paths". On the set, the girl met and married actor Ivan Lyubeznov. The marriage soon fell apart, but they remained good friends for life. She also starred in the film "Outpost at the Devil's Ford", but the picture somehow did not please the authorities, and it was banned, and then completely lost. It should be noted that Ladynina has no relationship with the authorities.formed - either her admirer is Italian, or she flatly refused to cooperate with the NKVD. As a result, the "future of the Moscow Art Theater", as K. S. Stanislavsky called it, was fired from the theater. The following year was very difficult, the actress worked part-time doing laundry and cleaning.

Fateful meeting

But in 1936 Marina met Ivan Pyryev. And her life changes dramatically. This was the epoch-making man of her life, she was happy with him, received all-Union recognition with him, was awarded five Stalin Prizes and bore him a child. I. Pyryev was not an easy person and, probably, by and large, not very decent, either with women or with colleagues. But he was very fond of Ladynin. He left, however, not immediately, from his wife (actress Ada Woyzeck) and son, and at first he defended his beloved in every possible way from the NKVD, which gradually turned the young actress into an anti-Stalinist - many already knew how it could end. But his attempts would have yielded nothing if Stalin had not seen their first joint film, The Rich Bride, shelved. He liked the film, and that decided everything. Outcasts have become popular favorites. Since then, no one has put a spoke in Pyryev's wheels, and only Marina Ladynina starred in his films, whose biography in these years was full of success.

The first joint films that brought all-Union fame

The popularity of the next film has surpassed all expectations. "Tractor drivers" entered the treasury of Soviet cinema. N. Kryuchkov and M. Ladynina were idolized, recognized on the streets, and letters were sent. True, the next film, shot to please Ladynina (since she did not want to enddays to play collective farmers), - "Beloved Girl" - turned out to be unsuccessful. Ivan Pyryev again turned to his favorite genre of musical comedy and started filming the legendary film The Pig and the Shepherd.

Film legend

The film crew was caught by the war when they were returning from Kabardino-Balkaria. First, the troupe broke up - Zeldin was sent to a tank school, Pyryev volunteered for the front, but, again, Stalin, having familiarized himself with the idea of \u200b\u200bthe film, decided that the actors would be more useful by finishing the picture. And indeed, the film was taken along the fronts, it raised the spirit of the fighters. The film "The Pig and the Shepherd" was filmed by a company of like-minded people, mutual understanding, creativity and mutual respect reigned on the set.

War and post-war films

Ivan Pyryev was a director who was completely dedicated to the cause of life, sparing neither himself nor others. During the war years, the picture "Secretary of the Regional Committee" was filmed. Marina Ladynina, whose filmography was replenished during this time with the comedy "Antosha Rybkin", this time starred not with her husband, but with Konstantin Yudin. The next big success was the picture "At 6 pm after the war" - Ladynina's partner in this film was the most popular Yevgeny Samoilov. The film was a big success. However, in 1946, the picture in which Marina Ladynina starred (“Big Life”) was criticized. All the actors and director Leonid Lukov became disgraced, and I. Pyryev also got it - he was fired from the post of editor-in-chief of the Art of Cinema magazine for placing frames from this film on the cover. But then Stalininvited to his place, which means he forgave.

Another success

Immediately after the war, the film "The Legend of the Siberian Land" was staged, confirming the unfading talent of the Pyryev-Ladynin tandem. In this picture, the actress plays an intelligent woman in beautiful clothes, her beautiful hair is visible - before that, in previous works, a cap often flaunted on the head of a beautiful woman. Filmed in the 50s, the film "Kuban Cossacks" became the pinnacle of Ladynina's popularity. The amazing adoration of this actress is evidenced by the fact that at the very beginning of Gorky Street, two huge portraits hung on high-rise buildings - Stalin and Ladynina. People wrote letters to her with a request to take her to their collective farm. The song that Marina Ladynina performed in this picture (“What were you…”) is still popular today.

Divorce

Ivan Pyryev left Ladynin immediately after the release of the film "Test of Fidelity". They lived together for 17 years. The director not only loved, but also respected this wonderful woman, who was called "the aristocrat of the spirit." And after marrying another actress, he did not let his ex-wife pass, pursued her, asked for forgiveness and did not allow him to work or act in films anywhere. It was a very difficult time for Marina, but she survived it, survived, traveled around the vast country with concerts until they were banned in 1993, depriving many celebrities of an elementary piece of bread. In the most difficult time, Naina Yeltsina supported the great actress.

An era died with her…

But this strong woman considered herself a happy person. MarinaLadynina, whose children were limited to the only joint son Andrei with Pyryev, was left completely alone when he left after the divorce to his father. But then, when Ivan Pyryev died, relations between mother and son, who became a popular director, improved.

Marina Ladynina lived to see the wedding of her beloved grandson. The actress was remembered for her 90th birthday (1998) and was awarded "Nick" in the "For Honor and Dignity" nomination. Marina Ladynina died on March 10, 2003. She was a kind, intelligent, talented person, all her life she was supported by true friends - Andrey Borisov, Mark Bernes, Pyotr Glebov, Ivan Pereverziev and Nikolai Cherkasov. These people were the color of pre-war and post-war Soviet cinematography.