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Olga Konstantinovna Chekhova (née Knipper; Russian: лa онстантиновна еова; 14 April 1897 – 9 March 1980) was a Russian-German actress known in Germany as Olga Tschechowa. She played the female lead in Alfred Hitchcock's Mary (1931).
Biography
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Olga Konstantinovna Knipper was born on April 14, 1897, the daughter of railway engineer Konstantin Knipper (1868-1929) and Yelena Luise "Lulu" Knipper (née Ried, 1874-1940), both Lutherans of ethnic German descent. Olga was the niece and namesake of Anton Chekhov's wife, Olga Knipper. She went to Tsarskoye Selo school, but after seeing Eleonora Duse, she entered the Moscow Art Theatre's studio. In 1914, she met the Russian-Jewish actor Mikhail Chekhov (Anton's nephew) and married him the following year, adopting his surname. In 1916, their daughter, also called Olga, was born. She rose to fame as Ada Tschechowa, an actress.
Chekhova divorced her husband but preserved his name during the 1917 October Revolution. In the first year of the revolution, she joined the cabaret-theatre troupe Sorokonozhka (The Little Centipede), which had only twenty members and forty feet. Chekhova was also cast in the silent film Anya Kraeva. She was cast in Cagliostro and The Last Adventure of Arsène Lupin the following year, in 1918. Despite being a member of the Moscow Art stage's social circle, she never played a role there, despite her subsequent claims to have had her first stage role in The Cherry Orchard.
She obtained a travel passport from the Soviet Union, probably in exchange for her collaboration, allowing her to escape Russia. She traveled to Vienna on a train with a Soviet spy, then to Berlin in 1920. She married Frederick Yaroshi that same year, but they divorced in 1921. In Germany, her debut film role was in F. W. Murnau's silent film Schloß Vogelöd (1921). At UFA, she appeared in Max Reinhardt's productions. She successfully transitioned from silent to talkies. In the 1930s, she ascended to become one of the Third Reich's biggest stars, and Adolf Hitler admired her. She appeared in films such as The Hymn of Leuthen, but she liked comedy. She married Marcel Robbins for the third time in 1936, and the marriage ended in divorce in 1938.
Chekhova with Walter Janssen at the Göttinger Film Festival in October 1953.
Goebbels, Joseph
A photograph published of her seated next Hitler at a reception gave Soviet intelligence leaders the notion that she had close contacts with Hitler. She had increased contact with Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda, who referred to her in his diaries as "eine charmante Frau" ("a charming lady").
She is also said to have been a communist spy in a Soviet plot. According to British historian Roger Moorhouse's book Killing Hitler (2006), she was encouraged by Stalin and Beria to flirt with Adolf Hitler in order to gain and convey intelligence so that Hitler might be killed by secret Soviet operatives.
Olga later gained considerable success in the motion picture industry. Between 1917 and 1974, she had 138 credits as an actor, director, and producer. She resided in Berlin's Soviet quarter after the war, but she eventually managed to get away from her Soviet acquaintances. In 1949, she relocated to Munich, Bavaria, and established Olga Tschechowa Kosmetik, a cosmetics company.
At the same time, she continued to act, appearing in over 20 films as a supporting player or in a cameo. After authoring a memoir, she essentially retired from performing in her 70s. Her letters to Russian actresses Olga Knipper and Alla Tarasova were exposed after her death.
Her cousin Marina Ried and granddaughter Vera Tschechowa both went on to become actors.
Selected filmography
- Anya Kraeva (1917)
- Poslednie priklucheniya Arsena Lupena (1918)
- Kaliostro (1918)
- Schloß Vogelöd (1921) - Baronin Safferstätt
- Impostor (1921)
- Violet (1921) - Violet
- The Circle of Death (1922) - Olga Petrowna
- Der Kampf ums Ich (1922)
- Nora (1923) - Nora
- The Pagoda (1923)
- Certificates of Death (1923)
- Tatjana (1923) - Tatjana
- The Lost Shoe (1923) - Estella
- Debit and Credit (1924) - Sabine
- The Enchantress (1924)
- The Venus of Montmartre (1925) - Gräfin Sullivan
- The City of Temptation (1925)
- The Old Ballroom (1925, part 1, 2)
- Should We Get Married? (1925)
- Love Story (1925)
- The Company Worth Millions (1925)
- The Fallen (1926) - Malwa, Freundin von Hammer
- The Mill at Sanssouci (1926) - Tänzerin Barberina
- Der Mann aus dem Jenseits (1926) - Seine Frau
- The Schimeck Family (1926) - Olga, seine Frau
- Trude (1926)
- The Man in the Fire (1926) - Diva Romola
- His Toughest Case (1926) - Mary Melton
- Grandstand for General Staff (1926) - Gräfin Landieren
- Aftermath (1926)
- The Italian Straw Hat (1927)
- The Sea (1927) - Rosseherre
- His Late Excellency (1927) - Baronin von Windegg
- The Italian Straw Hat (1928) - Anaïs de Beauperthuis
- Moulin Rouge (1928) - Parysia
- Pawns of Passion (1928) - Ala Suminska
- Woman in Flames (1928) - Gräfin Clarissa Thalberg
- After the Verdict (1929) - Vivian Denys
- Diane (1929) - Diane Mervil
- The Love of the Brothers Rott (1929) - Theresa Donath
- Der Narr seiner Liebe (1929)
- Incest (1929) - Lisbeth Kröger - deren Tochter aus erster Ehe
- Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer (1930) - Helene Willfüer
- Love in the Ring (1930) - Lilian
- Troika (1930) - Vera Walowa
- Der Detektiv des Kaisers (1930) - Olga
- The Three from the Filling Station (1930) - Edith von Turoff
- Darling of the Gods (1930) - Olga von Dagomirska
- Zwei Krawatten (1930) - Mabel
- The Road to Paradise (1930) - Edith de Tourkoff
- A Girl from the Reeperbahn (1930) - Hanne Bullová
- The Great Longing (1930) - Herself
- Liebe auf Befehl (1931) - Manuela
- Mary (1931) - Mary Baring
- Panic in Chicago (1931) - Florence Dingley
- The Night of Decision (1931) - Maria Iwanowa (Marya Sablin)
- The Concert (1931) - Maria Heink, Gattin
- Night Convoy (1932) - Inka Maria, seine Frau
- Trenck (1932) - Elisabeth, Zarin von Rußland
- The Gala Performance (1932) - Miß Harris
- The Hymn of Leuthen (1933) - Gräfin Mariann
- Liebelei (1933) - Baronin v. Eggersdorff
- A Love Story (1933) - Baronin von Eggersdorf
- Ways to a Good Marriage (1933) - Claire Veiler, die unbefriedigte Frau
- Ein gewisser Herr Gran (1933) - Frau Mervin
- Un certain monsieur Grant (1933) - Mme Merwin - une espionne
- The Country Schoolmaster (1933) - Teresa van der Straaten
- Um ein bisschen Glück (1933) - Helene, seine Frau
- Police Report (1934) - Gisela Ostercamp
- Between Two Hearts (1934) - Inge Leuthoff
- L'amour qu'il faut aux femmes (1934) - Le troisième couple
- The World Without a Mask (1934) - Betty Bandelow
- Maskerade (1934) - Anita Keller - seine Braut
- What Am I Without You (1934) - Lilly Petrowa, Schauspielerin
- Abenteuer eines jungen Herrn in Polen (1934) - Gräfin Lubenska
- Peer Gynt (1934) - Baronin
- Regine (1935) - Floris Bell, Schauspielerin
- Asew (1935) - Tanja Asew, seine Frau
- The Eternal Mask (1935)[13] - Madame Negar
- Rêve d'Amour (1935) - Gräfin Madeleine Duday
- Artist Love (1935) - Olivia Vanderhagen
- Ein Walzer um den Stephansturm (1935) - Sylvia von Polonska
- The Empress's Favourite (1936) - Elisabeth Kaiserin von Russland
- L'argent (1936) - Baronne Sandorff
- Manja Valewska (1936) - Gräfin Pola Valewska
- His Daughter is Called Peter (1936) - Nora Noir
- Hannerl and Her Lovers (1936) - Frau von Stahl
- Court Theatre (1936) - Baroness Seebach
- Petersburger Romanze (1936)
- Die weissen Teufel (1936)
- Liebe geht seltsame Wege (1937) - Antonia Delvarez
- Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit (1937) - Brigitte Sparrenberg
- Die gelbe Flagge (1937) - Helen Roeder - amerikanische Journalistin
- Gewitterflug zu Claudia (1937) - Frau Mainburg
- Das Mädchen mit dem guten Ruf (1938) - Mirandolina
- Red Orchids (1938) - Maria Dorando
- Zwei Frauen (1938) - Paula Corvey
- Verliebtes Abenteuer (1938) - Olivia
- The Stars Shine (1938) - Herself
- Bel Ami (1939) - Madeleine Forestier
- Ich verweigere die Aussage (1939) - Nora Ottendorf
- Parkstraße 13 (1939) - Evelyne Schratt
- Die unheimlichen Wünsche (1939) - Feodora, Schauspielerin
- Liberated Hands (1939) - Kerstin Thomas
- Passion (1940) - Gerda
- Angelika (1940) - Angelika
- The Fox of Glenarvon (1940) - Gloria Grandison
- Menschen im Sturm (1941) - Vera seine Frau
- Andreas Schlüter (1942) - Gräfin Vera Orlewska
- With the Eyes of a Woman (1942) - Marie-Louise v. Ditmar, Baronin von Stein
- The Eternal Tone (1943) - Josephine Malti, Singer
- Reise in die Vergangenheit (1943) - Marianne von der Halden
- Gefährlicher Frühling (1943) - Juliane von Buckwitz
- Melusine (1944) - Nora
- In the Temple of Venus (1948) - Carola Weber
- One Night Apart (1950) - Vera, seine Frau
- Kein Engel ist so rein (1950) - Margot
- Two in One Suit (1950) - Catherine Turner
- Maharadscha wider Willen [de] (1950) - Susanne de Bogne - Journalistin
- Trouble in Paradise (1950) - Myriam Esneh
- The Man Who Wanted to Live Twice (1950) - Irene Hesse
- Begierde (1951) - Frau des Bankpräsidenten
- Eine Frau mit Herz (1951) - Vera von Wesener
- Das Geheimnis einer Ehe (1951) - Tina Camphausen
- My Friend the Thief (1951) - Percys Schwester
- Behind Monastery Walls (1952) - Priorin
- Everything for Father (1953) - Frau von Pleskow
- Rose-Girl Resli (1953) - Mrs. von Weidersheim
- Heute nacht passiert's (1953) - HImself - Gast im Modesalon
- Captain Wronski (1954) - Frau von Eichhoff
- I Was an Ugly Girl (1955) - Luise Raymond
- The Barrings (1955) - Amelie von Eyff
- U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien (1958) - Die Fürstin
- Jack and Jenny (1963) - Mutter Johannsen
- The Twins from Immenhof (1973) - Großmutter Arkens
- Spring in Immenhof (1974) - Großmutter (final film role)