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Jolly Fellows

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Jolly Fellows (Весёлые ребята Vesyolye rebyata), also translated as Happy-Go-Lucky Guys, Moscow Laughs and Jazz Comedy, is a 1934 Soviet musical film, directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and starring his wife Lyubov Orlova, a gifted singer and the first recognized star of Soviet cinema. [1]

29 relations: Allen & Unwin, Germany, Graham Greene, Grigori Aleksandrov, Isaak Dunayevsky, Italy, Jay Leyda, Jazz, Jean Ross, Kolkhoz, Leonid Utyosov, Lyubov Orlova, Macmillan Publishers, Morning Star (British newspaper), Mosfilm, Musical film, New York City, Nikolai Erdman, Order of the Red Star, Palgrave Macmillan, Pan flute, Pyotr Leshchenko, René Clair, Serdtse, Soviet Union, The Italian Straw Hat (film), The Spectator, Valentin Parnakh, Vasily Lebedev-Kumach.

Allen & Unwin

Allen & Unwin is an Australian independent publishing company, established in Australia in 1976 as a subsidiary of the British firm George Allen & Unwin Ltd., which was founded by Sir Stanley Unwin in August 1914 and went on to become one of the leading publishers of the twentieth century.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

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Grigori Aleksandrov

Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov or Alexandrov (Григо́рий Васи́льевич Алекса́ндров; original family name was Мормоненко or Mormonenko; 23 January 1903 – 16 December 1983) was a prominent Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1973.

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Isaak Dunayevsky

Isaak Osipovich Dunayevsky (Исаак Осипович Дунаевский; also transliterated as Dunaevski or Dunaevsky; 25 July 1955) was a Soviet film composer and conductor of the 1930s and 1940s, who achieved huge success in music for operetta and film comedies, frequently working with the film director Grigori Aleksandrov.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Jay Leyda

Jay Leyda (February 12, 1910 – February 15, 1988)David Stirk and Elena Pinto Simon in was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film historian, noted for his work on U.S, Soviet, and Chinese cinema, as well as his collections of documentation on the day-to-day lives of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jean Ross

Jean Iris Ross Cockburn (7 May 1911 – 27 April 1973) was a British cabaret singer, fashion model, political activist, and writer.

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Kolkhoz

A kolkhoz (p) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union.

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Leonid Utyosov

Leonid Osipovich Utyosov or Utesov (Леони́д О́сипович Утёсов); real name Lazar (Leyzer) Iosifovich Vaysbeyn or Weissbein (Russian: Ла́зарь (Ле́йзер) Ио́сифович Вайсбе́йн) (Odessa – 9 March 1982, Moscow), was a famous Soviet jazz singer and comic actor of Jewish origin, who became the first pop singer to be awarded the prestigious title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1965.

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Lyubov Orlova

Lyubov Petrovna Orlova (Любо́вь Петро́вна Орло́ва;, Zvenigorod – 26 January 1975, Moscow) was the first recognized star of Soviet cinema, a famous theatre actress, and a gifted singer.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

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Morning Star (British newspaper)

Morning Star is a left-wing British daily tabloid newspaper with a focus on social, political and trade union issues.

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Mosfilm

Mosfilm (Мосфильм, Mosfil’m) is a film studio that is among the largest and oldest in the Russian Federation and in Europe.

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Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nikolai Erdman

Nikolay Robertovich Erdman (a;, Moscow — 10 August 1970) was a Soviet dramatist and screenwriter primarily remembered for his work with Vsevolod Meyerhold in the 1920s.

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Order of the Red Star

The Order of the Red Star (Орден Краснoй Звезды) was a military decoration of the Soviet Union.

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Palgrave Macmillan

Palgrave Macmillan is an international academic and trade publishing company.

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Pan flute

The pan flutes (also known as panpipes or syrinx) are a group of musical instruments based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth).

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Pyotr Leshchenko

Pyotr Konstantinovich Leshchenko (Пётр Константинович Лещенко; 2 June 189816 July 1954), a singer in the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union, is universally considered "the King of Russian Tango" and specifically known for his rendition of "Serdtse"—a tango, sung unusually not in Spanish but in Russian.

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René Clair

René Clair (11 November 1898 – 15 March 1981) born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker and writer.

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Serdtse

"Serdtse" (Сердце; translated as "Heart") is in its version sung by Pyotr Leshchenko one of the most frequently performed Argentine Tango songs not sung in the Spanish language.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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The Italian Straw Hat (film)

The Italian Straw Hat (Un chapeau de paille d'Italie) is a 1928 French silent film comedy written and directed by René Clair, in his feature debut, based on the 1851 play Un chapeau de paille d'Italie, by Eugène Marin Labiche and Marc-Michel.

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The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British magazine on politics, culture, and current affairs.

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Valentin Parnakh

Valentin Yakovlevich Parnakh (Валентин Яковлевич Парнах) (1891–1951) was a Russian poet, translator, choreographer, and musician who is best remembered as a founding father of Soviet jazz.

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Vasily Lebedev-Kumach

Vasily Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach Moscow, — 20 February 1949) was a Soviet poet and lyricist. Vasily was the son of shoe maker. He went on to work in the print department of the Revolutionary Military Council, moving on to ROSTO. He attended Moscow State University. He adopted the nickname Kumach, a name for a variety of red cloth used to symbolize revolution. In time the nickname was added to his surname. His satirical verses published in such papers as Rabochaia gazeta, Krest’ianskaia gazeta, Gudok, and Krokodil led to his growing popularity. He also wrote songs for the film Late for a Date (1936). He wrote numerous songs, the most famous being probably Священная война (Svyaschennaya Voyna, 'The Sacred War'), Песня о Родине (A Song About Motherland) and Как много девушек хороших (Such a lot of nice girls!), later immortalized as the Argentine Tango song Serdtse (Сердце-Heart) by Pyotr Leshchenko. He worked closely with the composer Isaak Dunayevsky. He was also one of the first persons to use the term blat (блат) in print, when Krokodil published the poem Blat-not.

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Happy-Go-Lucky Guys, Jazz Comedy, Jolly Fellows (1934 film), Moscow Laughs, The Jolly Fellows.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolly_Fellows

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