Talk:Faina Ranevskaya

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To: Ghirlandajo:

I insist on removal of your intro on Ranevskaya. It contains no valuable information, but English language mistakes (quote: "and a hero of many a Russian anecdote"), and there is discrepancy with major biographical sources dedicated to Ranevskaya.

E.g. Ranevskaya's father wasn't a "Jewish oil tycoon", but he owned a dry-ink factory in the city of Taganrog. That's two different things. Then, Ranevskaya was buried on the Donskoe Cemetery, a cemetery of the Donskoy Monastery near Moscow and not on Novodevichie. Another fact - you mentioned the play "The Rest is Silence" - your translation of "Dalshe - tishina" is not correct, since this is a Vina Delmar's play and its original title is "Make Way for Tomorrow".

Thank you for your contribution with photos, but I insist on my version of the text.

-- Ranevskaya never played in Ivan the Terrible, so it couldn't be her photo. As a matter of fact, that is the photo of Serafima Birman, who received a Stalin's Award for her role.
 * Wrong. It seems like you know nothing about her bio. Ranevskaya made sample photos for Ivan the Terrible, but Eisenstein was not satisfied with the result and preferred to cast Birman. The latter looks so different that I'm amazed that you could confuse the two. The photo is taken from Ranevskaya webpage at http://faina.narod.ru/photo02.html --Ghirlandajo 06:58, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

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" (she was never approved for the part) by the Soviet government officials who did not want a Jewish actress to play the part of Princess Staritskaya"--194.145.161.227 16:10, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

(also, I can't help pointing out that replacing a Feldman with a Birman doesn't seem like a great improvement from an Russian anti-Semitic point of view :), as pointed out in this Jewish newspaper article (in Russian), too. --194.145.161.227 16:23, 21 November 2006 (UTC)