Why Russian Santa is the happiest in the world

Called Ded Moroz (Father Frost), Russian Santa, undoubtedly, is the happiest in the world. And in particular, he is happier than Western Santa. Why? In my opinion, the main difference between him and any Western Santa Claus – he is not alone. Indeed, this is so cool, as he has a beautiful young girl named Snegurochka, or Snow maiden. According to belief, she is his granddaughter. However, nobody knows anything about her parents, and there is no evidence she is his granddaughter. The fact is – she is just a beautiful girl who accompanies him everywhere. And this is a clue why he is endlessly happy.

Besides, Russian Father Frost doesn’t have to crawl through the dirty chimney, like a thief, to enter a house! Ded Moroz in Russia enters houses quite legally with his beautiful girl. Warmly welcomed in every house. And sometimes even too warmly.

In particular, there is a tradition to treat Russian Ded Moroz with a glass of vodka and delicious food, in every house. So, the fabulous couple visits lots of houses per day… Imagine how our Father Frost looks and feels at the end of the day. And what about children, who are impatiently waiting for the meeting with Father Frost and Snegurochka? All they need to do to get a Christmas present – to tell a poem or sing a song, or just tell how well they behaved.
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Russian swimmer Yuliya Yefimova – triple world champion
Born 3 April 1992 in Grozny, Chechnya, because of war, her family had to move to Volgodonsk. Yuliya grew up there, and there she began to train in one of the local sports schools, under the guidance of her father, Andrei Mikhailovich Yefimov. Prior to 2011, the family lived in Taganrog, where Yuliya trained with the honored coach of Russia Irina Vyatchanina. In March 2011, the athlete went to the U.S., where she trains in California with David Salo.

Yuliya is a three-time European champion in 2007 FINA Short Course (50, 100 and 200 meters breaststroke), champion (200m breaststroke) and silver medalist (50 m) of the European Championship in 2008. She is a European record holder and European Championships in the 100m breaststroke.
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The world’s most popular singer of French chanson, coupled with the blues and jazz, Patricia Kaas is the owner of the inimitable voice – elegant, sensual and mysterious. Born in France in December 1966, Patricia Kaas has big sad eyes, teenage awkwardness and boyish haircut. Thin and fragile with a minimum of makeup on her face, thus she appeared on the stage. Meanwhile, her wardrobe consisted of a cap and modest little jackets, which are now hardly anyone remembers. Today she is elegant, refined, a femme fatale, who reduces men crazy with just one look of her bottomless blue eyes. Noteworthy, French pop singer and actress Kaas is the first international artist to visit 28 Russian cities, where she is the most favorite singer.
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Born on May 20, 1974 in Zelenograd, Moscow region, Olesya Sudzilovskaya is one of the most beautiful Russian actresses. She grew up in a family of engineers, where her mom and dad graduated from the Institute of meat and dairy products. At the age of four Olesya started doing artistic gymnastics and succeeded in it, having become a candidate for Master of Sports.

Interestingly, Olesya didn’t dream about movie career, and saw herself in a big sport.
Meanwhile, Olesya was fourteen years old when assistant director, who was searching for the actors, came to her class. No wonder, she picked up Olesya for the filming in Vladimir Potapov’s film ‘Mediator’. Olesya always showed excellent results, in sports and actress career. In total, her movie list consists of more than 55 films.
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Beautiful Russian actress Evgenia Kryukova was born on June 11, 1971 in Moscow. She is a Soviet-Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of Russia (2005), laureate of Youth Award “Triumph” (2005). Evgenia was born into a family of engineers. After leaving school she entered the Moscow Institute of Architecture, but left it. In 1988 Kryukova became an artist at the Moscow Youth Theater. Then she married an actor Mikhail Zhukov, with whom began to appear on stage as an actress. Her husband helped her acting career. In 1990 Evgenia entered GITIS. One day Evgenia was invited to star in a movie at “Belarusfilm” studio. However, her debut in the movie did not take place, but the desire to become an actress had become stronger.
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German dancer and actress Camilla Martha Horn
Born April 25, 1903, in Frankfurt am Main, Camilla Martha Horn is a famous German dancer and theater and film actress. Icon of beauty, she was especially popular in 1930-1940s, playing in Hollywood, and European cinema. The daughter of a railway employee, trained in sewing, she undertook a variety of jobs to pay for acting lessons from Lucie Höflich and dance art from Rudolph von Laban.

For some time she worked as an extrasist in the theater and cinema. And in 1925 German film director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau invited her to the role of Gretchen in his adaptation of Faust. Thanks to the success of this film, Camilla Horn received a contract at United Artists in Hollywood. There, her partners on the set were Ernst Lubich and John Barrymore, but she had to play all the same roles of naive girls. In 1929, Camilla Horn returned to Germany, and starred in diverse roles in Britain and France.

After the war, Camilla Horn, who spoke English, first worked as an interpreter, then returned to the cinema and theater. Camilla Horn’s last work fell on 1988. In 1985, Camilla Horn released her memoir “In Love with Love.”

Camilla Horn was married four times. She died at Gilching, where she had lived during the last year of her life, buried at the cemetery in Hershing Am Ammersee.

German dancer and actress Camilla Martha Horn

Popular in 1950-1960s French actress Marie-Jose Nat
Born Marie-José Benhalassa 22 April 1940, Marie-Jose Nat is a French actress, whose popularity fell on the late 1950-1960s.

The creative fate of the actress is not like the noisy rise of many modern movie stars, accompanied by scandalous press attention. This is rather a persistent and long climb to the top of the skill. The girl, who lived in Corsica and was the fifth child in the family, was creative and artistic since childhood. As a school girl, she performed in school plays. Aged fifteen, Marie won a writer’s contest for young movie lovers. In particular, contest organized by the illustrated magazine Femmes d’Aujourd’hui (Woman Today).

Besides, the same year, 1955, Marie-José Nat won the competition organized by the journal “Lectures d’Aujourd’hui” (Today’s Readings). And the award to the winner – trip to Paris as a model for Jean-Claude Pascal’s photo-novel “Love is a dream”. Noteworthy, during the filming, she got her pseudonym “Nat”. The reason was a long braid that tied her head.

Meanwhile, after such a “success”, the whole family, believing in the talent of their daughter, moved to Paris.
Difficult years began: they lived in a hotel, and her father worked as a night watchman. And Marie herself to pay for study at the drama courses had to work as a photo model for fashion magazines. Gradually, she began to receive small roles in the cinema and television.

The debut in the movie took place in the film adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment (1956, directed by Georges Lampin), Marie-José Nat played the episodic role of the girl at the ball. Noteworthy, the 16 year-old girl played with such stars of French cinema as Jean Gabin and Marina Vlady.

In 1959, director Denis de La Patayer entrusted the actress to play a major role in the film “Street Prairie” with Jean Gaben. Since then, the career of the actress has developed quite successfully and sedately.

Marie-José created convincing images of Frenchwomen, accurately conveying the everyday and psychological details of the characters. In particular, Odette in the Rue des prairies (1959, directed by Denys de La Patelliere), Claude Savage in “The Diary of a Woman in White” (1965, dir Claude Autant-Lara), Eliza in the film of her husband Michel Drach “Elise, or Real Life” (1970) and many others. Marie-José Nat performed perhaps, her best role in the film by Andre Cayatte “Married Life”. According to critics, Marie-José Nat showed herself as a very emotional actress with strong inner content.

On the set of the film “Amelie or The Time to Love” (1961), she met the director Michel Drach, who becomes her second husband. The first marriage with Roger Dumas ended in divorce in a year (12 July 1960-61). Together with Michel Drach they created a film “Elise, or Real Life” dedicated to the fate of the Algerians in France during the colonial struggle. With Michael Drach they lived for 17 years (1964-1981) and brought up three children, but divorced.

In 1974 at the festival in Cannes, she received the golden palm branch for the best performance of the female role in the film “Violins at the Ball” (1974).

From 1956 to 2015, Marie-José Nat played more than 60 roles, and the last film in the list of actresses dates back to 2015.

Popular in 1950-1960s French actress Marie-Jose Nat

Hollywood Diva Orchidaceous Adrienne Ames

Undoubtedly, Ames was one of the most beautiful actresses of the time recognized as the most well-dressed actresses in the US. Unfortunately, Adrienne Ames lived short life. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1907, Adrienne Ames was Hollywood star in the late 1920s – 1930s. For example, only in 1932 she appeared in four films, such as Guilty as Hell, The Death Kiss, Sinners in the Sun, and Merrily We Go to Hell. However, her film career lasted only 10 years. Died of cancer on May 31, 1947 in New York, 39-year-old Adrienne Ames was buried in “Oakwood Cemetery” next to her younger sister Gladys McClure. The last, just like her, died in her youth 14 years before her.

Born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1907, Adrienne Ames hit Hollywood in the late 1920s. Although her career only lasted about 10 years, she crammed a lot of living into it, with high-profile marriages (and divorces) and her reputation as a clothes horse and glamor queen par excellence far outshone her reputation as an actress.

In 1931 she married actor Bruce Cabot after leaving her second husband, a rich New York City stockbroker, but that marriage only lasted six years. Divorced, she told that the main reason she left him was that he was a violent in his uncontrollable drunk. In 1938 the pair appeared before a US Tax Appeals Board to explain why she wreote off more than $9000 on wardrobe and jewelry in her 1934 tax form. However, she claimed it was necessary for “professional reasons”. In addition, she claimed that her “daily expenses” included flowers, massages, taxis and beauty work.

Her career lasted from 1929 to 1940, during which she appeared in about 30 films. The best-known of her movies would probably be “You’re Telling Me!” (1934) with W.C. Fields. After her film career ended she worked as a radio commentator.

1930s Hollywood Diva Orchidaceous Adrienne Ames

 

Forever young British actress Belinda Lee
She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. In 1954, she signed a contract with the film company Rank Studios. At the beginning of the acting career she performed several serious dramatic roles. Later, she basically switched to the role of spectacular, fluffy blondes. Noteworthy, one of such roles was in the 1956 comedy “Who did this?” in partnership with the British comedian Benny Hill.

Meanwhile, in 1954 she married photographer Cornel Lukas. After the divorce in 1959, she moved to Italy, where she continued to play temptresses in low-budget Italian films. Also, she occasionally performed more serious roles – including the dramas – “Knitters” by Francesco Rosi and “Long night of the forty-third year” by Florestano Vanchini.
Tragically died in a car accident in California near the city of San Bernardino on the way from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, where she starred in the next film. Buried in a non-catholic cemetery in Rome.

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