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Olga Baclanova

1893 - 1974

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Olga Vladimirovna Baklanova (Russian: О́льга Влади́мировна Бакла́нова; 19 August 1893 – 6 September 1974), known professionally as Olga Baclanova, was a Russian-born actress who found success in Hollywood films, as well as stage roles in the US and the United Kingdom, she was mainly billed as an exotic blonde temptress, who was given the title of the "Russian Tigress". Baclanova spent her early years in her native land appearing in silent films from 1914 until 1918, reducing her age by several years and changing the spelling of her surname Baklanova. She was often billed under her surname only, similar to her fellow countrywoman Nazimova. She emigrated to the United States in 1925, and started appearing on stage and subsequently in Hollywood films, where she was celebrated for the Universal Pictures silent The Man Who Laughs as the evil Duchess Josiana and in Tod Browning's cult-classic horror film Freaks (1932) at MGM, as scheming circus trapeze artist, Cleopatra. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Olga Baclanova is the 2,738th most popular actor (down from 2,089th in 2019), the 1,147th most popular biography from Russia (down from 986th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Russian Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Olga Baclanova ranks 2,738 out of 13,578. Before her are Clark Gregg, Kari Wuhrer, Raymond Massey, Aldo Fabrizi, Kathleen Freeman, and Henri Vidal. After her are Paul Wesley, Charles Bickford, John Doman, Sarah Siddons, Jimmy Smits, and Kelly Reilly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Olga Baclanova ranks 157. Before her are Freya Stark, Herbert Read, Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony, Rahul Sankrityayan, Vicente Huidobro, and Archduke Leo Karl of Austria. After her are Huey Long, Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Henry Murray, Aarre Merikanto, and Ramón Encinas. Among people deceased in 1974, Olga Baclanova ranks 127. Before her are Silvio Moser, Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, Pink Anderson, Richard Huelsenbeck, Clyde Cowan, and George Van Biesbroeck. After her are Werner Kohlmeyer, Aman Andom, Rashid Nezhmetdinov, André Marie, Fritz Szepan, and Elisabeth Abegg.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Olga Baclanova ranks 1,147 out of 3,761. Before her are Alexander Alyabyev (1787), Sergei Gerasimov (1906), Valery Nepomnyashchy (1943), Alexander Yakovlev (1923), Oleg Protopopov (1932), and Konstantin Novoselov (1974). After her are Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia (1825), Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752), Natalia Gutman (1942), Sergei Shtemenko (1907), Yuri Orlov (1924), and Matrona Nikonova (1881).

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Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, Olga Baclanova ranks 39. Before her are Oleg Basilashvili (1934), Alexander Kaidanovsky (1946), Anastasiya Vertinskaya (1944), Savely Kramarov (1934), Yury Solomin (1935), and Georgy Vitsin (1917). After her are Vera Alentova (1942), Maria Ouspenskaya (1876), Margarita Terekhova (1942), Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1883), Irina Skobtseva (1927), and Ivan Mosjoukine (1889).

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