Marina Vlady

Not to be confused with Marina Vlad.

Marina Vlady
Vlady in 2009
Born	Marina Catherine de Poliakoff-Baydaroff (1938-05-10) 10 May 1938 (age 87) Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1949–present
Spouses	Robert Hossein ​ ​ (m. 1955;div. 1959)​ Jean-Claude Brouillet ​ ​ (m. 1963;div. 1966)​ Vladimir Vysotsky ​ ​ (m. 1970;died 1980)​
Partner(s)	Léon Schwartzenberg (esp. 1981; d. 2003)
Children	3
Awards

Marina Vlady (born 10 May 1938) is a French film and TV actress. Her film credits include The Conjugal Bed (1963), 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (Two or 3 things that I know about her) (1967), Il sapore del grano (aka: The Flavor of Corn) (1986) and Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight (1966).

She wrote about her ten-year, long-distance relationship with third husband Vladimir Vysotsky in the memoir Vladimir, or the Aborted Flight. Their long-distance relationship also inspired several of Vysotsky's songs. Vlady was also advocate for abortion at a time when the procedure was illegal in France and she participated in protests against deportations of Arab workers from France.

For her turn in The Conjugal Bed, Vlady won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.

Early life

Vlady was born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine to White Russian immigrant parents. Her father was an opera singer and her mother was a dancer. Her sisters, now all deceased, were the actresses Odile Versois, Hélène Vallier and Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff. The sisters began acting as children and, for a while, pursued a ballet career.

Acting career

Vlady won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for The Conjugal Bed . ^[1] In 1965, she was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. ^[2]

Marina Vlady, 1996

Vlady starred in Jean-Luc Godard's 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (1967), and later portrayed the insightful and protective stepmother in the Italian film Il sapore del grano (aka: The Flavor of Corn) (1986). A rare English language role was as Kate Percy in Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight (1966).

Her television credits include the 1983 mini-series La Chambre des Dames. ^[3]

Politics

In 1971, Vlady signed the Manifesto of the 343, which publicly declared she had an abortion as a way to advocate for abortion, even though the procedure was illegal in France at the time. ^[4]

Vlady and partner Léon Schwartzenberg participated in the protests against deportations of Arab workers from France. ^[5] She accepted a role in a film about a gay couple from Iran. ^[6]

Personal life

From 1955 to 1959, Vlady was married to actor/director Robert Hossein. From 1963 to 1966, she was married to Jean-Claude Brouillet, a French entrepreneur, owner of two airlines and member of French Resistance.

Vlady third husband was Soviet poet/songwriter, Vladimir Vysotsky, They were married from 1969 until his death in 1980. ^[7] Vlady wrote Vladimir, or the Aborted Flight, a memoir of her relationship with Vladimir Vysotsky. For a decade, the couple maintained a long-distance relationship as Vlady compromised her career in France in order to spend more time in Moscow, and his friends pulled strings for him to travel abroad. She eventually joined the Communist Party of France, which essentially gave her an unlimited-entry visa into the Soviet Union, and provided Vysotsky with some immunity against prosecution by the government. The problems of his long-distance relationship with Vlady inspired several of Vysotsky's songs.^{[ citation needed ]}

Vlady also lived with French oncologist Léon Schwartzenberg from the 1980s until his death in 2003.^{[ citation needed ]}

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1949	Summer Storm	Marie-Tempête
1950	Due sorelle amano
1951	Pardon My French	Jacqueline
1952	Dans la vie tout s'arrange	La petite Jacqueline
	Black Feathers	Gemma Vianello
	La figlia del diavolo	Graziella
1953	The Unfaithfuls	Marisa
	Finishing School	Eljay
	Too Young for Love	Annette
	Cavalcade of Song	La fanciulla amata
	Musoduro	Lucia Giardano
1954	Before the Deluge	Liliane Noblet
	She	Céline
	Days of Love	Angela Cafalla
1955	Sins of Casanova	Fulvia
	The Hotshot	Juliette
	Sophie and the Crime	Sophie Brulard
	The Wicked Go to Hell	Eva
1956	Symphony of Love	Caroline Esterhazy
	La Sorcière	Ina
	Forgive Us Our Trespasses	Dédée
	Crime and Punishment	Lili Marcellin
1958	Liberté Surveillée  [ fr ]	Eva
1959	Toi, le venin	Eva Lecain
	The Verdict	Catherine Desroches
	La Nuit des espions  [ fr ]	Elle
1960	Les Canailles  [ fr ]	Hélène Chalmers
1961	Girl in the Window	Else
	La Princesse de Clèves	La Princesse de Clèves
1962	Adorable Liar	Juliette
	The Seven Deadly Sins	Catherine Lartigue
	The Steppe	Comtesse Dranitsky
	Climats  [ fr ]	Odile
1963	The Conjugal Bed	Regina
	Enough Rope	Ellie
	The Cage	Isabelle
	Sweet and Sour	La radio taxi girl
	Don't Tempt the Devil	Catherine Dupré
1965	Run for Your Wife	Nicole
	Chimes at Midnight	Kate Percy
1966	Atout coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117	Eva Wilson
	Mona, l'étoile sans nom  [ fr ]	Mona
	The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen	Nicole
1967	Two or Three Things I Know About Her	Juliette Jeanson
1969	Time to Live	Marie
	Syuzhet dlya nebolshogo rasskaza  [ ru ]	Lika
	Sirocco d'hiver  [ fr ]	Maria
1970	Contestazione generale	Imma
	Pour un sourire  [ fr ]	Véronique
1973	Le complot	Christine
1977	The Two of Them	Mária
1978	The Bermuda Triangle	Kim
	The Thief of Baghdad	Perizidah
1986	Exploits of a Young Don Juan	Madame Muller
1989	Follow Me	Ljuba
1989	Splendor	Chantal Duvivier
1992	Dreams of Russia	Catherine the Great
2010	A Few Days of Respite	Yolande

Songs

• Marina Vlady and Vladimir Vysotsky (1996) [CD], Melodiya, songs by Marina Vladi, words and music by Vladimir Vysotsky

References

1. "Festival de Cannes: The Conjugal Bed". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
2. "4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965)". moscowfilmfestival.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
3. Marina Vlady at IMDb
4. • "TEXT: Le "Manifeste des 343 salopes" paru dans le Nouvel Obs en 1971". L'Obs (in French). 27 November 2007. Archived from the original on 31 March 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
   • "COVER scan: Le Nouvel Obs" (PDF). L'Obs (in French). 5 April 1971. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
   • "PAGE scan: Un appel de 343 femmes" (PDF). L'Obs (in French). 5 April 1971. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 March 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
5. Abdulova, Julia. "Юлия Абдулова: "Родителей познакомил Высоцкий"". gazeta.ru. Archived from the original on 6 May 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
6. Karayev, Nikolai (30 April 2012). "Марина Влади: Володя живет во мне – всегда". Postimees (in Russian). Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
7. Караев, Николай (30 April 2012). "Марина Влади: Володя живет во мне – всегда". PostTimees. Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2013.

External links

• Marina Vlady at IMDb
• Marina Vlady at Cinémathèque française
• Marina Vlady at the TCM Movie Database