The first visit of Soviet actors in the US (19 photos)

Now that the event is considered the arrival of American actors in Moscow, it is useful to recall that there was a time when the United States met our actors as international stars.

Thanks to the film "Ballad of a Soldier," Jeanne Prokhorenko and Vladimir Ivashov gained worldwide fame and the first of the Soviet artists visited the United States in 1960 at the Film Festival in San Francisco.







"We wrote about things that hurt me terribly," Yes, there is nothing done. She is such as it is: freckled face, cheeks, once plucked apples, even plucked eyebrows not. And even spit. " It struck them to the depths of soul-Jeanne remembers Prokhorenko.



in "Time" was such a cover: we Volodya in cowboy costume sitting on the stairs of a public building, and he - also with a balalaika. The inscription on the cover was: "Russian conquer America!»