ELENA MIRAMOVA Russian dancer actress & playwright SIGNED PHOTO DBW by Apeda NY

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This is a vintage original double weight publicity photograph of
Elena Miramova (1901-1992 )
, a Russian actress, ballet and theatrical dancer. Born in Tsaritsyn, Russia; trained in Seattle, WA, at Cornish School. As a ballet dancer, performed with ballet class act at age 16 on Northwest Pantages vaudeville circuit; worked mainly as a dramatic actress in Los Angeles in productions of A Bill of Divorcement and Sister Beatrice, and on Broadway in The Affairs of Anatol, The Two Mrs. Carrolls, and as the ballerina in Grand Hotel. She wrote several plays, including Dark Eyes, in which she starred on Broadway, Jan-July 1943 at the Belasco Theatre.
Miramova was born in 1901 in Tsaritsyn, Russian Empire (Volgograd, Russia), and emigrated to New York City with a brother who died when she was eleven years old. She worked at a nightgown factory to support herself until a wealthy family with an interest in theatre discovered her and helped put her through school. Samuel James Hume, who discovered Miramova, had been director of the Arts and Crafts Theatre in Detroit, sent her to study acting and work on her accent at the experimental Cornish School in Seattle in 1922. After some months, she came at last to live with the school's founder and director, Nellie Cornish, who having "always wanted a daughter of my own" sometime later adopted Miramova. Her training at the Cornish School formed the basis of a successful theatrical career. While at the Cornish School she met the Russian singer and director, Vladimir Rosing, who had come there to teach a four-week master class. The close relationship with Rosing would continue in New York, London and later in California.(further biography available on Wikipedia).
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