Actress Tamara Aleshina is best known to the viewer as the performer of the role of Masha Svetlova - senior lieutenant from the film "Heavenly Slow-moving". What other creative works is the Soviet actress known for, what was her career, and how did her personal life develop?
Biography
Tamara Ivanovna Aleshina was born on May 10, 1919 in Petrograd (modern St. Petersburg). From childhood, family and friends noted acting inclinations in Tamara - she spoke loudly, told stories well and always knew how to make them laugh. At school, the girl also showed herself as an artist, arranging evenings and participating in skits. After graduating from 10 classes, the seventeen-year-old Tamara did not even doubt that her vocation was a stage, and therefore decided to enter the acting department. She was accepted to the Leningrad Theater Institute, which Tamara Aleshina graduated in 1940. In the photo below Alyoshin at the age of 22 years.
Upon graduation, Tamara Aleshin was assigned to serve in the Leningrad Pushkin Theater (now the Alexandrinsky Theater), in which the actress played until 1995, never once entering the stage of another theater. Her debut role was Parasha in the play "Hot Heart" based on a play by Ostrovsky.
In the same 1940, Tamara Aleshina’s film debut also took place - she played the girl Irina in the film "Friends". From 1940 to 1945, Alyoshina played supporting roles in such films as Front Friends and Sea Battalion.
Slow-moving heavenly
Tamara Aleshina became a universal favorite in 1945, after the release of the musical-military film "Heavenly Slow-moving", in which she played the role of senior lieutenant Maria Svetlova.
Although the role was not the main one, the brisk beauty Svetlova instantly won the hearts of all spectators. According to the plot of the film, the heroine Aleshina becomes the bride of pilot Sergei Kaisarov, one of three friends who swore to each other not to fall in love until the end of the war. The film is especially interesting in that all military uniforms and military equipment were real, front-line. And although critics were dissatisfied with the film, considering it frivolous, "Heavenly Squeegee" remained the leader of the Soviet box office until 1946.
Other notable works
After filming in "Heavenly Quiet", Tamara Aleshina left the shooting for eight whole years, devoting herself to her newborn son and her beloved theater. Return to the cinema happened in 1953, when the actress played the mother of the protagonist in the film "Alyosha Ptitsyn will work out the character." In 1955, Alyoshina played an unusual, but very successful role for herself, Empress Elizabeth Petrovna in the film "Mikhailo Lomonosov". After the release of the film about Alyoshina, they again spoke in film circles, calling her a serious dramatic actress.
From 1955 to 1960 Tamara Aleshina actively starred in films, but films with her participation, shot during this period, did not have much success. Continuing to work in the theater, from 1960 to 1965. Alyoshina chose a closer genre of cinema for herself, starring in television films, such as "Children of Vanyushin", "Oblomov" and others. But soon the actress decided to leave the cinema again, this time for as long as 19 years.
The last year in which Tamara Aleshina acted in films was 1984. This year, four films were released with the participation of a 65-year-old actress: Charlotte’s necklace, Drive, Alien wife and husband under the bed, Mimosa bouquet and other flowers. At this, Tamara Aleshina’s career in cinema was completed forever.
Personal life
In 1944, Alyoshina married an actor, who also served in the Pushkin Theater, Andrei Tolubeev, becoming his second wife. In 1945, their son Andrei was born, later he, like his parents, became an actor in theater and cinema. The exact date of the divorce of Tamara and Yuri is unknown, but since 1965 they lived separately, since Tolubeev went to another woman whom he later married. Tamara was having a hard time breaking up with her husband, this was one of the reasons for her leaving the cinema in 1965.
In 1995, Tamara Aleshina left the stage - she was often sick and had problems with her legs. Tamara Ivanovna died on September 21, 1999, at the age of 80. She was buried in the Orthodox Volkovsky cemetery.