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Советская красавица, которую считали конкуренткой Мэрилин Монро. ФотоNonna Terentyeva conquered men, one eye.

Elegantly subtle beauty of this actress ruined the stereotype of Soviet women – the Builder of communism. In Soviet films, it was the sensuality, and abroad it was often compared with such Hollywood beauties as Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo.

Creative life

Despite the fact that fate was not to her particularly supportive, Nonna Terentyeva still left his mark on the theater and the cinema.

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During her studies at the Shchukin school, nonnu noticed Vladimir Motyl and was invited to play a role in his film “Eugene, Zhenechka and Katyusha”.

Almost simultaneously, the young actress received an offer from Joseph Heifits – the role of Ekaterina Turkina in the film based on Chekhov’s “Ionych” “One day in the city of S.”

Nona had to make a difficult choice. But being a fan of Chekhov, she decided to accept the offer of Joseph Heifits.

Removed she had such outstanding actors as Igor Gorbachev, Anatoly Papanov and Lydia Stegan.

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With its role as Nona was the perfect fit. After the premiere, she immediately became famous, there were crowds of fans, guard her on the way out. And she often had to hide from them, running away from school through the back door.

Soon this picture was to send to the festival in Cannes for the out-of-competition screening. The delegation of the artists for the presentation of the film includes young Terentyev.

The unusual beauty of our Actresses are not left without attention, Nonna was a welcome guest at all passing there receptions. Began Dating, among others, she met with famous actors Simone Signoret and Yves Montand. Got to talking, and Simon said Nonna:”If Your film was in competition, You would surely have taken the prize for best actress, for beauty.”

After graduation, the actress worked in the theater of Stanislavsky, nonnu and saw a photographer Vasily Malyshev, who offered to do her portrait.

And Nona agreed.

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And in 1967 in Paris at the exhibition of UNESCO this work was awarded first place. Foreign visitors admired the subtle beauty and elegance of a Russian actress, so unlike their familiar Soviet “Girls with an oar”.

It so happened that this photo posted in one of the Newspapers published for the American pilots.
They were all smitten by the beautiful Russian actress and became known not only as “Queen of the air”. The pilots literally filled up their “Queen” letters offering her his hand and heart.

At the foot of our beauties then were all American aircraft.

In addition to these letters, the young artist began to receive tempting offers from Hollywood Directors, inviting her to star in your movies. But our officials from the cinematography rejected such proposals under the pretext that the actress we’ve got enough loaded.

But it was a lie. In their country Directors are not filled up nonnu Terentyev proposals in the ten years it took just a few movies, and then only in small roles.

The only serious work in those years was the role of beauty-adventuress in the movie “Crash of engineer Garina”, which again propelled the actress to stardom.

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Советская красавица, которую считали конкуренткой Мэрилин Монро. Фото

Directors, of course, admired “non-Soviet” beauty of the actress, and they began to offer her the role of babe-avanturistic, treacherous and cynical. In such similar roles, she starred in the movies Samson Samsonov’s “Furious gold”, Eldora urazbaeva “TRANS-Siberian Express” and Alexander Pankratov-Black “the adventures of count Nevzorov”. Then, as often happens, began to consider the actress of one role.

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In the late 80-ies the situation in the country was very difficult. I touched it and cinema, many actors were without work and were forced to drive across the country with concerts.

For many it was very tiring, but not for Nona.

TV presenter Sergei Mayorov, who knew her, recalled those times:

“She was our lifesaver: never traded and went to the ends of the earth. And if many of the artists whined, shaking on the bumpy road in the jeep, she is all cheered and joked: “It’s lovely! Because this will never happen again!]”.

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Stunning outfits “from mom”

Act the artists had in different places, often very modest, God-forgotten stage.
But Nonna never went on stage in normal clothes, the audience always has a gorgeous woman in furs or lush feather boa of ostrich feathers, elegant and glamorous as Marlene Dietrich or Marilyn Monroe. And although many of her outfits were already quite worn, the audience did not notice.

And sewed all of these stunning outfits mother Nonna, a superb dressmaker. A former actress, she knew a lot about the outfits…

At Nonna had a great voice, in concert, she often sang with famous jazz compositions of Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald.

And completed his speech is usually the song “Kalinushka”, under which the whole hall literally cried…

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Personal life

At 23, Nona married graduate student from Kiev Boris Terentyev.

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They had a very strong love in marriage a daughter Xenia, but they lived together for a short time. Relations between them soured and the couple divorced.

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After the divorce, Nona left the Kyiv theater and returned to Moscow. There also moved and her colleague Vladimir Skomorovsky, who by that time for Nonna family and loved one. However, after some time, Skomorovsky went to America and Nonna remained in Moscow. At first there were frequent letters and dreams about the meeting, but gradually the love has passed, and they parted forever.

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Although beautiful Nonna has never been without male attention, his personal life she never managed to arrange.

And then her life intervened insidious disease, which she never told anyone, even his family, and never complained.

In anticipation of his death, she sent the daughter Ksenia in America.

Left Nonna Terentyeva of life in women’s day – 8 March 1996.

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