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Olga Konstantinovna Chekhova (née Knipper; Russian: Ольга Константиновна Чехова; 14 April 1897 – 9 March 1980), known in Germany as Olga Tschechowa, was a Russian-German actress. Her film roles include the female lead in Alfred Hitchcock's Mary (1931).
Olga Knipper-Chekhova (born 1869, Glazov, Russia—died March 22, 1959, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was a world-renowned Russian actress and the wife of playwright Anton Chekhov.
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Sep 12, 2004 · His painstaking work clears away historical gossip and shows how ingeniously Olga played powerful figures off against each other to survive the revolution, the war, and Stalin’s purges.♦
In 1920, young Olga Chekhova, the beautiful niece of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, fled Moscow for Berlin—taking only a smuggled diamond ring. Olga quickly won both celebrity as an actress and prominence in the ranks of Germany’s Nazi party, eventually becoming Hitler’s favorite actress.
Aug 24, 2013 · Olga Chekhova was a legendary actress who married Mikhail Chekhov, acted in Berlin and Hollywood, and had affairs with Nazis. She was also rumored to be a secret agent for the Kremlin, who could have prevented Hitler's death.
Jan 1, 2004 · Olga Chekhova was the niece of Anton Chekhov’s wife Olga Knipper-Chekhova. At the age of eighteen she married the actor and theatrical theorist Michael Chekhov only to find that he was a hopeless drunkard.
Nov 27, 2004 · The extraordinary story of Olga Chekhova lay hidden in the KGB archives until Antony Beevor stumbled across it while researching Berlin: The Downfall 1945.
