Alla Nazimova

Her contribution to the film industry has been recognized through a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her sister Dedee Pfeiffer is also an actress. Alla Nazimova died in 1945 in Los Angeles and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. As a singer, she became most widely known with her role in The Fabulous Baker Boys. With little choice, she gave up on the film industry, returning to perform on Broadway until the early 1940s when she appeared in a few more films, ostensibly in need of money. Her most recent work includes roles in the movies Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, What Lies Beneath, White Oleander, and I Am Sam. By 1925 she no longer could afford to invest in more films and financial backers withdrew their support. Her first starring role was in the 1982 musical Grease 2.

However, her creativity did not meet consumer tastes and the films lost a great deal of money. Kelley, the creator of the Chicago Hope and Ally McBeal television series; a son was born in 1994. Daring for the times, in her adaptations of works by such notable playwrights as Oscar Wilde or Henrik Ibsen she instituted her own ideas for filmmaking. In 1993, Pfeiffer adopted a girl; later that year, she married producer David E. In 1918, at age 39, Nazimova felt confident enough in her abilities that she began producing and writing films in which she also starred. In 1981, she married actor Peter Horton, but they later divorced. Loyal Davis, Nazimova was made godmother to their daughter, former first lady Nancy Davis-Reagan. Born in Santa Ana, Orange County, California to Dick and Donna Pfeiffer, she has three siblings, an older brother and two younger sisters.

A friend of Edith Luckett and her husband, Dr. Michelle Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an American actress and singer. Her studio squelched the stories surfacing about her bisexual lifestyle and to cover it up, for more than a dozen years she lived in a partnership of mutual convenience with the homosexual actor Charles Bryant. The Hollywood Knights (1980). She became widely gossiped about for the outlandish and allegedly debauched parties in her large mansion on Sunset Boulevard known as the Garden of Allah. Falling in Love Again (1980). Over the next few years she made a number of highly successful films that earned her a considerable amount of money. Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981).

She toured Europe as well the United States where her first Broadway performances in 1906 drew critical acclaim. Deciding to make the USA her home, she worked on stage until she made her silent film debut in 1916. Grease 2 (1982). Under the stage name, Alla Nazimova, her career blossomed and she married a fellow actor but it did not last long. Scarface (1983). As a teenager she began to pursue an interest in the theatre and took acting lessons before joining a theater company in Moscow. Into the Night (1985). Her emotional distress caused her to rebel against authority as a way to gain attention but nonetheless, she was a talented child who was playing the violin by age seven. Ladyhawke (1985).

She grew up in a very dysfunctional family and was shuffled between foster homes and relatives. Sweet Liberty (1986). Born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon, into a Jewish family in Yalta in the Crimea which at the time was a part of Russia but today is an autonomous region of Ukraine. The Witches of Eastwick (1987). Alla Nazimova, born May 22, 1879 - died July 13, 1945, was a Ukrainian born stage and film actress, scriptwriter, and producer. Amazon Women on the Moon (1987). Married to the Mob (1988).

Tequila Sunrise (1988). Dangerous Liaisons (1988). The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989). The Russia House (1990).

Frankie and Johnny (1991). Batman Returns (1992). Love Field (1992). The Age of Innocence (1993).

Wolf (1994). Dangerous Minds (1995). Up Close & Personal (1996). To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996).

One Fine Day (1996). A Thousand Acres (1997). The Prince of Egypt (1998) (voice). The Deep End of the Ocean (1999).

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999). The Story of Us (1999). What Lies Beneath (2000). I Am Sam (2001).

White Oleander (2002). Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (voice).