Yelena Samarina

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Yelena Samarina
Born(1927-12-16)16 December 1927
Died4 May 2011(2011-05-04) (aged 83)
Other namesYelena Georgievna Volozhanina
OccupationActress
Years active1958-2004

Yelena Samarina (16 December 1927 – 4 May 2011) was a Russian-born actress who settled in Spain. She was originally selected to play the lead in Wim Wenders' historical The Scarlet Letter (1973), but the film's financial backers insisted on the casting of the better-known Senta Berger.[1]

Selected filmography[]

References[]

  1. ^ Palmer p.35

Bibliography[]

  • R. Barton Palmer. Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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