Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya

Biography

Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya was a renowned Soviet singer and actress born on December 24, 1905, in Kiev. A celebrated performer with the Russian Army Theatre in Moscow, she won the Stalin Prize II in 1951 and the People's Artist of the USSR Award in 1965. Her notable film roles include Detochkin's mother in "Beware of the Car" and Zhenya's mother in "The Irony of Fate."