Vadim Uraneff (6 February 1895 – 5 April 1952) was a Russian actor[1] and librettist who helped John Barrymore and Katharine Hepburn when it was hoped they would appear in The Song of Solomon.[2]
Vadim Uraneff | |
|---|---|
| Born | Вадим Уранев 6 February 1895 |
| Died | 5 April 1952 (aged 57) Duarte, California, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, librettist, mime and theater critic |
He was also a mime who played Lucianus in Hamlet in the Ballet Russe.[3] As theater critic, he explained in 1923:
- The [vaudeville] actor works with the idea of an immediate response from the audience: and with regard to its demands. By cutting out everything -every line, gesture, movement- to which the audience does not react and by improvising new thins, he establishes unusual unity between the audience and himself... Stylization in gesture, pose, misen-scène and make-up follows as a result of long experiment before the primitive spectator whose power as judge is absolute.[4][5]
He translated the lyric drama Star (The) Woman from Russian alongside P. Colum.[6]
He directed the theatre drama Anathema by L. N. Andreev at the Apollo Theater, New York.[7]
He is buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.[8]
Filmography
edit- I Believed in You (1934) as Xandy vendor
- Friends and Lovers (1931) as Ivanoff[9]
- The Medicine Man (1930) as Gus
- Midnight Madness (1928) as Joe
- Fazil (1928) as Ahmed.[10]
- Once and Forever (1927) as Axel
- Little Mickey Grogan (1927) as Crooked
- The Magic Flame (1927) as the visitor.[11]
- The Flame of the Yukon (1926) as Solo Jim
- Siberia (1926) as Kyrill Vronsky
- The Blonde Saint (1926) as Nino
- The Silent Power (1926) as Jerry Spencer
- The Sea Beast (1926) as Pip[12]
References
edit- ^ Fortune, Danny (2014). "MIDNIGHT MADNESS Movie Lacks 'Midnight' and 'Madness'". Alt Film Guide. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ Grogan, Christopher (2010). Imogen Holst: A Life in Music. Boydell & Brewer. p. 116. ISBN 9781843835998.
- ^ Dawson, Anthony (15 December 1997). "The 1920s: old ways meet the news stagecraft". Hamlet. Manchester University Press. p. 79. ISBN 9780719046254.
- ^ Jenkins, Henry (2007). The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture. NYU Press. p. 250. ISBN 9780814742839.
- ^ Gebdhart, Nicholas (22 March 2017). Vaudeville Melodies: Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870-1929. University of Chicago Press. p. 141. ISBN 9780226448695.
- ^ Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets, contributions to newspapers or periodicals, etc.; lectures, sermons, addresses for oral delivery; dramatic compositions; maps; motion pictures. Vol. 19. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1923.
- ^ SEEP. Vol. 10. Institute for Contemporary Eastern European Drama and Theatre. 1991. p. 32.
- ^ interment.net
- ^ da Silva, George Batista (15 June 2016). Os Filmes De Laurence Olivier. Clube de Autores. p. 37.
- ^ McBride, Joseph (5 November 2013). Hawks on Hawks. University Press of Kentucky. p. 203. ISBN 9780813144313.
- ^ Shilling, Donovan A. (1 September 2013). Rochester's Movie Mania. Pancoast Publishing. p. 187. ISBN 9780982109045.
- ^ Holston, Kim R. (18 December 2012). Movie Roadshows: A History and Filmography of Reserved-Seat Limited Showings, 1911-1973. McFarland & Company. p. 315. ISBN 9780786460625.