Vadim Uraneff

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Vadim Uraneff
Born
Вадим Уранев

(1895-02-06)6 February 1895
Died5 April 1952(1952-04-05) (aged 57)
Duarte, California, United States
Occupation(s) Actor, librettist, mime and theater critic

Vadim Uraneff (6 February 1895 – 5 April 1952) was a Russian actor [1] and librettist who helped John Barrymore and Katharine Hepburn when it was hoped they would appear in The Song of Solomon . [2]

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He was also a mime who played Lucianus in Hamlet in the Ballet Russe. [3] As theater critic, he explained in 1923:

The [vaudeville] actor works with the idea of an immediate response from the audience: and with regard to its demands. By cutting out everything -every line, gesture, movement- to which the audience does not react and by improvising new thins, he establishes unusual unity between the audience and himself... Stylization in gesture, pose, misen-scène and make-up follows as a result of long experiment before the primitive spectator whose power as judge is absolute. [4] [5]

He translated the lyric drama Star (The) Woman from Russian alongside P. Colum. [6]

He directed the theatre drama Anathema by L. N. Andreev at the Apollo Theater, New York. [7]

He is buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. [8]

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