Emilia Milton is a famous Soviet actress. Her full name is Milton - Krasnopolskaya. Critics and connoisseurs of domestic cinema called her "the queen of a small role."
Actress Biography
Emilia Milton was born in the town of Uman, located in the Kiev province. Now it is Cherkasy region in Ukraine.
She began her acting career at the Red Torch Theater, which was based in Odessa. Then she performed on the stage of the Kiev Theater of Russian Drama, the Kharkov Drama Theater. When Emilia Milton became already famous and beloved by many actresses, she moved to Moscow. She played in the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, in the capital's Gogol Theater. In 1960, she was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Summing up her long and eventful life, Milton Emilia Davydovna said that just as every person needs to plant a tree, so every actor needs to leave a memory of himself in the hearts of people. Moreover, this should not be an image in the play, but a line of songs or poems.
The actress died in 1978 in Moscow. She was 75 years old. In recent years, she was seriously ill, rarely went on stage, supporting herself only with powerful drugs. Once again, she became ill right on the stage, from where she was taken to the hospital. The disease took its toll, she never returned.
Doctors diagnosed her with myocardial infarction. Milton is buried in the Vvedensky cemetery of the capital.
Movie debut
For the first time on the big screen, Emilia Milton appeared in 1936 in the film "Tom Sawyer." She played the role of the widow of Douglas. Filming took place at the Kiev film studio "Ukrainfilm".
Then in her career there were Leonid Lukov’s drama “Big Life”, Igor Savchenko’s historical drama “Bogdan Khmelnitsky”, Tatyana Lioznova’s melodrama “Early in the morning”, Rolan Bykov ’s children's comedy “Attention, turtle!”, Vyacheslav Brovkin’s detective series “Investigators Are Conducting Investigations” .
In all films, she got secondary or episodic roles, but the audience still immediately remembered actress Milton Emilia Davydovna thanks to her acting talent and skill.
First success
The popularity of Emilia Milton came after her role in the multi-part film by Tatyana Lioznova "Seventeen Moments of Spring". The heroine of our article played the role of Frau Zaurich in it.
Interestingly, this character was largely born by chance. He was not in the novel in which the series was shot, nor in the original version of the script. Frau Zaurich arose in the imagination of Tatyana Lioznova to revive and humanize the image of the Soviet intelligence officer Stirlitz. She needed to at least slightly soften this hero so that he did not look so insensitive.
The film contains several scenes of the meetings between Stirlitz and Frau Zaurich, played by actress Emilia Milton. It is noteworthy that they were written almost on the set, while the actress quickly grabbed any directions from the director and improvised with pleasure.
Frau Zaurich
Describing the appearance of the character to Frau Zaurich, Lioznova recalled that Milton played her heroine in some incredible terrible bots that could be found in the warehouse of the film studio.
Therefore, it sounded particularly colorful when she asked Shtirlits whether she could pass another season in these shoes. This is exactly the phrase that was born to her quite spontaneously, she immediately beat her wonderful.
It was also Milton who came up with the episode with small flower bouquets, which she adored. She literally persuaded Lioznova to allow her to poke the harsh scout Stirlitz straight in the nose with this bouquet. Many critics then admitted that it was a real find.
Theatrical career
Success accompanied Emilia Milton, and when she played in the theater. Especially at the very beginning of his career - in the proletarian Red Torch. She was loved by the viewer; crowds of fans, literally idolizing her, followed Milton.
The actress herself was with the same love for the theater. An attractive, slim and successful woman from the first minutes of appearing on the stage fascinated the audience. She uttered passionate recitations on revolutionary topics, and only a few moments later she depicted the howling of the wind behind the scenes along with the rest of the extras.
Milton mastered a variety of genres. She organically felt both in comedy and in drama.
After she left the Red Torch, she could not find her theater for a long time. Replaced a lot of theatrical stages, played many interesting roles, winning sincere audience love.
Movie roles
In the films, Emilia Milton played, albeit subtle, but memorable roles. For example, she appears in the image of a wise teacher of aesthetics in the children's comedy Igor Voznesensky "The Stunning Berendeev." And in the legendary Soviet detective television series "The Investigators Are Conducting Investigations," he plays Prakhova, who organized a gang of dangerous criminals.
Many actress was remembered for his role in the detective drama Yuri Kavtaradze "Conscience". She plays Kudryavtsev’s neighbor, who is called the “captain of the 14th apartment”. Here her skill manifests itself literally in every movement. Obviously, the image itself, to the smallest detail, was thought out by Milton herself.
In Nikolai Kalinin’s children's adventure film “Dirk”, the actress played the role of grandmother Leli, the widow of a professor at the Podvolotskaya Maritime Academy, in the film “Starling and Lear” plays the fortune-teller Alikhub, in the comedy of Mikhail Grigoryev “Mark Twain against ...” Aunt Wheeler, in the film by Eduard Gavrilov's “Kindness” to Pavel Vasilievna can also be seen in the film adaptation of Charles de Coster's novel “The Legend of Ulenspiegel” entitled “The Legend of Thiel”.