Alla NazimovaFilmography

Born:: Yalta, Russia
Occupation:: Actor, Producer
Biography:: Alla Nazimova was a legend of the Russian and American stages in the early part of the century who went on to star in numerous Hollywood films. As a child, Nazimova studied music at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and at Odessa where she became an excellent violinist. Later she studied acting with...Read More

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Since You Went Away

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Monty Woolley, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: David O. Selznick's first production since 1940's Rebecca, Since You Went Away, based on Margaret Buell Wilder's bestselling novel, is a long but rewarding paean to the World War 2 "home front". Claudette Colbert plays the wife of a businessman who, though well past draft age, volunteered to serve Read More

1944
The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Actors: Lynn Bari, Akim Tamiroff, Francis Lederer, Alla Nazimova, Louis Calhern

Synopsis: First filmed in 1928, Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey is given a ponderous treatment in this 1944 remake. Like the novel, the film begins at the end, with the collapse of a rope bridge in 18th century Peru. The story then flashes back to the lives of the five Read More

1944
In Our Time

Actors: Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Nancy Coleman, Mary Boland, Victor Francen

Synopsis: More a romantic melodrama than the uplifting propaganda piece the producers perhaps envisioned, In Our Time stars Ida Lupino as Jennifer Whittredge, a young antique buyer marrying a Polish count, Stephan Orvid (Paul Henried), after a whirlwind romance in a Warsaw at the brink of World War II. The Read More

1944
The Song of Bernadette

Actors: Jennifer Jones, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper, Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis: The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing up in the tiny French village of Lourdes in the 19th century, Bernadette (Jennifer Jones) experiences a vision of the Virgin Mary in a nearby grotto. At least, she believes Read More

1943
Blood and Sand

Actors: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Alla Nazimova, Anthony Quinn, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Vincente Blasco Ibanez, Blood and Sand is the beautifully rendered story of the rise and fall of a young, cocksure Spanish bullfighter, played by Tyrone Power. Working his way slowly up the ladder to success, Power achieves fame when he is praised to skies by fatuous, fickle Read More

1941
Escape

Actors: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt, Alla Nazimova, Felix Bressart

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Ethel Vance, Escape stars Robert Taylor as a young American, the son of a widowed European woman (Alla Nazimova). The mother has been imprisoned in a German concentration camp, compelling her son to ignore America's neutrality and attempt a rescue. Sneaking into German-occupied Read More

1940
My Son

Actors: Alla Nazimova, Jack Pickford, Hobart Bosworth, Ian Keith

Synopsis: Alla Nazimova, an ethereal Russian actress who preferred to bill herself as just plain Nazimova, tops the cast of My Son. The "son" in this instance is Portuguese youth Jack Pickford, who lives and works in a New England fishing town with his devoted mother (Nazimova). Pickford courts disaster Read More

1925
The Redeeming Sin

Actors: Alla Nazimova, Lou Tellegen, Carl Miller, Otis Harlan, Rosita Marstini

Synopsis: The careers of both actress Alla Nazimova and director J. Stuart Blackton were on the wane when they made this low-budget drama. Joan (Nazimova) is part of a French underworld gang, which includes her rough sweetheart, Lupin (Lou Tellegen). After provoking Lupin, she heads for a low-down cabaret Read More

1925
Madonna of the Streets

Actors: Alla Nazimova, Milton Sills, Claude Gillingwater, Courtenay Foote, Tom Kennedy

Synopsis: Alla Nazimova had been away from the screen for over a year when she made this drama, and she was paid well under half her former salary. To add box-office value, she was given Milton Sills as a co-star, but even so, the film did not do well either in film receipts or reviews. Reverend John Morton Read More

1924
Salome

Crew: Producer

Actors: Alla Nazimova, Rose Dione, Mitchell Lewis, Nigel de Brulier, Earl Schenck

Synopsis: Seeking to bring High Art to the American hinterlands, silent film star Alla Nazimova sank a great deal of her own money into her 1922 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Salome. Art director Natacha Rambova (notorious as the contentious second wife of Rudolph Valentino) based her set designs on the works Read More

1922
A Doll's House

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alan Hale, Alla Nazimova, Philippe DeLacy

Synopsis: Henrik Ibsen's play had already been filmed twice before, in 1917 starring Dorothy Phillips, and in 1918 with lsie Ferguson. But this time around the star was dramatic actress Alla Nazimova, who had played Nora Helmer on stage in New York twice -- once in 1907 and again in 1918. The biggest Read More

1922
Camille

Actors: Alla Nazimova, Rudolph Valentino, Arthur Hoyt, Zeffie Tilbury, Rex Cherryman

Synopsis: Although by no means the definitive version of the Alexander Dumas story -- scenarist June Mathis modernizes it and the overall tone is rather cool for such a group of supposedly hot-blooded characters -- this picturization is notable for a number of reasons. To play Camille's lover, Armand Duval Read More

1921
Stronger Than Death

Synopsis: Because of a heart condition, Sigrid Freson (Alla Nazimova) has to give up her career as a dancer. She travels to a British outpost in India, where she rejects the advances of a Eurasian merchant in favor of Major Tristram Boucicault (Charles Bryant), an impoverished doctor who is fighting a Read More

1920
The Heart of a Child

Synopsis: Sally (Alla Nazimova), a resident of London's Limehouse district, finds herself alone when her drunken father kills her mother. She goes to work in a factory, but is hit by a car containing Lady Dorothea (Claire DuBrey) and Lord Kidderminster (Charles Bryant, Nazimova's real-life partner). Read More

1920
The Brat

Synopsis: Alla Nazimova went from heavy-handed dramatic spectaculars to light comedy-drama with this picture, based on a hit play by Maude Fulton. The Brat (Nazimova) is a crude little chorus girl who has just been fired from a Broadway show. She is rescued by Mac Millan Forrester (Charles Bryant, Read More

1919
Out of the Fog

Synopsis: Alla Nazimova indulges her penchant for high melodrama in this screen adaptation of an Austen Adams stage play, Ception Shoals. She plays a woman, Faith, whose life is shattered when her lover dies. Faith's brother Job (Henry Harmon) locks her away in a lighthouse, but she jumps from the tower Read More

1919
Red Lantern

Synopsis: In this atmospheric Chinese tale, (Alla Nazimova) plays Mahlee, a half-white, half-Chinese girl educated in Western ways by missionaries. She falls in love with one of the missionaries' sons, but he spurns her for an American girl (also played by Nazimova). The Chinese girl seeks revenge against Read More

1919
Eye for Eye

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Alla Nazimova's Eye for Eye has been described by Nazimova biographer De Witt Bodeen as "the ultimate in sweet exoticism." Adapted from L'Occident, a play by Henry Kistenmachers, the film casts Nazimova as Hassouna, daughter of an Arab sheik. Falling in love with a French military officer Read More

1918
Revelation

Synopsis: Dramatic actress Alla Nazimova made her leap from the stage into the screen world with this Metro picture. Joline (Nazimova) is a dancer who gives up the cabarets to be the model and mistress of an American artist, Paul Granville (Charles Bryant, Nazimova's business and romantic partner). His Read More

1918
War Brides

Synopsis: Alla Nazimova had been presented with motion picture contracts before, but she turned them down until Lewis J. Selznik offered to shoot a film version of this one-act play by Marion Craig Wentworth. The stage star had been successfully performing in it on Broadway and on the road for many months Read More

1916