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Leontovich

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[lee-on-tuh-vich] / liˈɒn tə vɪtʃ /

noun

  1. Eugenie Konstantin 1900–1993, U.S. actress, director, and playwright, born in Russia.

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Russian-American Actresses Miramova and Leontovich have scribbled a farce about Russian-American actresses and handed themselves the two gaudiest roles.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the claimant, Viveca Lindfors is attractive and tremulous; as the Empress, Eugenie Leontovich invokes the grand manner imperially, without ever burlesquing it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eugenie Leontovich, Mikhail Rasumny, Kurt Kasznar and Oscar Karlweis are believably human and humorous as toast-quaffing, banquet-tossing Georgians.

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