Throwback Thursday and Ludmilla Tcherina
Born in Paris on October 10, 1924, Ludmilla
Tcherina was a dancer and actress known for her radiant beauty. Her father was
an exiled Georgian prince and her mother was French. She trained as a classical
ballet dancer, but loved the world of film and television. As a child, she
appeared in fashion shows. When she was sixteen, she made her debut as a dancer
with the opera in Marseilles.
She joined the Ballet de Monte Carlo and was discovered by
Serge Lifar who gave her the starring role in Romeo and Juliet in 1942. By 1945 however, she became interested in
the movie world and her first film was Un
Revenent in 1946.
In 1951 she formed her own company and created Les Amants De Teruel, a dramatic ballet
choreographed by Mildo Sparemblek. This ballet became a film and Tcherina was
reviewed as “the tragic actress of dance”.
In addition to her work in dance and film, she was also a
painter and sculptor, and she published two novels involving dancers and
tragedy, "L'amour au miroir" (1983) and "La femme a l'envers
(1986). In her later years, she was often seen at theater premieres and galas,
impeccably dressed in elegant style. She died on March 20, 2004.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Dance History Factoid #99:
“Ludmilla Tcherina
was a French dancer, actress and author.”
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