Michael Chekhov
Also Known As: Михаил Чехов, Mijaíl Aleksándrovich Chéjov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Chekhov
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Chekhov (29 August 1891 – 30 September 1955) was a Russian-American actor, director, author, and theatre practitioner. His acting technique has been used by actors such as Clint Eastwood, Marilyn Monroe, Yul Brynner, and Robert Stack. Constantin Stanislavski referred to him as his most brilliant student. He was a nephew of the playwright Anton Chekhov. Although mainly a stage actor, he made a few notable appearances on film, perhaps most memorably as the Freudian analyst in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Chekhov, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Birthday: August 28, 1891
Deathday: September 30, 1955
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Gender: Male
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Spellbound
Overview: When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-08
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The Price of Freedom
Overview: The son of a newspaper editor visits his uncle in Germany and learns how government control gradually took away the freedom of the people. He returns and influences his father to print news items which will lead the people of their community to see the world situation as it is instead of as they want to believe it is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-29
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Tercentenary of the Romanov Dynasty's Accession
Overview: This large historical production was staged simultaneously with A. Khanzhonkov's painting "The Accession of the House of Romanov", but it was carried out on a larger scale; It ends with documentary footage of the coronation of Nicholas II.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1913-02-16
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Specter of the Rose
Overview: Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-05
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Rhapsody
Overview: A rich, young beauty, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at the conservatory. A piano student at the conservatory falls madly in love with Louise. The violinist loves his music first and Louise second. The pianist loves Louise first and his music second. Louise must ultimately choose which man she wants.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-16
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Invitation
Overview: A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-29
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Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Overview: Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-16
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Cinema in Russia
Overview: Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutionary feature films, newsreels and Starewicz's animation.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-08-27
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When The Heart's Strings Sound
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1914-01-01
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Holiday for Sinners
Overview: Three old friends reunite during Mardi Gras and try to forget their problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-25
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Cross My Heart
Overview: A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.
Genres: Comedy Music Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-18
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Abie's Irish Rose
Overview: Cultures clash when a Jewish boy wants to marry an Irish girl.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-27
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Phantoms of Happiness
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-01-02
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Song of Russia
Overview: American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city tour. Along the way, they see happy, healthy, smiling, free Soviet citizens, blissfully living the Communist dream. This bliss is destroyed by the German invasion.
Genres: Drama Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-10
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Der Narr seiner Liebe
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-08-01
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In Our Time
Overview: It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine, dine and see the sights though out the city. He wishes to marry, but his family is against plain Jennifer. When she tries to leave, he catches her at the train station and they are married. To be self sufficient, they modernize the family farm with tractors and increase production, but then Germany starts the war.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-19
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Troika
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-04-09
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The Man from the Restaurant
Overview: During the good old days of the Russian aristocracy, that is to say, before the October Revolution, in the city of Moscow there was a fancy restaurant which catered to the appetites and egos of the rich. In one such establishment works a middle-aged waiter who is devoted to serving his bourgeoisie clients correctly. However, his life outside his job is very different: His son was killed during the Russian civil war and the waiter's wife died of grief as a result....
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1927-08-11
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