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'''Nina Yasikova Kind Hakim Provatoroff''', known by her stage name of '''Nina Vanna''' (27 September 1899 &ndash; 8 November 1953),<ref>England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005</ref> was a Russian-born British film [[actor]] who appeared in a number of films during the 1920s.
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{{Infobox person
| name = Nina Vanna
| image = Nina Vanna and Ivor Novello.jpg
| caption=Nina Vanna and Ivor Novello in "The Man Without Desire"
| imagesize =
| birth_name = Nina Yazykova
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1899|9|27}}
| birth_place = [[Minsk]], [[Belarus]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1953|11|8|1899|9|27}}
| death_place = [[Battle, East Sussex|Battle]], [[East Sussex]], England, UK
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1923–1937
| partner =
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'''Nina Kind Hakim Provatoroff''', known by her stage name of '''Nina Vanna''' ({{nee}} Yazykova; 27 September 1899 – 8 November 1953),<ref>England & Wales, Death Index: 1916–2005</ref> was a Russian-born British film [[actress]] who appeared in a number of [[silent film]]s during the 1920s.


She sometimes played in historical dramas, playing [[Lady Jane Grey]] in the first of three film versions of her life (''Lady Jane Grey; Or, the Court of Intrigue'') and [[Lucrezia Borgia]] in what may be the first of several versions.
She sometimes played in historical dramas, playing [[Lady Jane Grey]] in the first of three film versions of her life (''Lady Jane Grey; Or, the Court of Intrigue'') and [[Lucrezia Borgia]] in what may be the first of several versions.


Vanna was married three times, first to Robert Kind from whom she was later divorced, secondly to [[film director]] Eric Hakim (1900 &ndash; 1967), who she also divorced, and finally to Peter Provatoroff from 1946 until her death.<ref name=Find>[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSob=c&GSvcid=14409&GRid=37196097& Find-a-grave entry]</ref><ref>[http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/597694 BFI Film and TV Database: Hakim, Eric]</ref><ref>England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005</ref>
Vanna was married three times, first to Robert Kind from whom she was later divorced, secondly to film director Eric Hakim (1900–1967), whom she also divorced, and finally to an importer/exporter and art collector Peter Provatoroff<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3sA4CwAAQBAJ|title=Orzel: Scottsdale's Legendary Arabian Stallion|last=Taylor|first=Tobi Lopez|date=2016-01-18|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9781625854964|language=en}}</ref> from 1946 until her death in [[Banstead]], [[Surrey]], [[United Kingdom|UK]].<ref name=Find>[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSob=c&GSvcid=14409&GRid=37196097& Find-a-grave entry]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/597694 |title=BFI Film and TV Database: Hakim, Eric |access-date=2 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090904034238/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/597694 |archive-date=4 September 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916–2005</ref>

== Career ==
Vanna began her film career in England where she made her debut in ''Scrooge'' (1923) as Alice. In the next years followed her leading roles in films, among them ''A Christmas Carol'' (1923), ''Lucrezia Borgia; Or, Plaything of Power'' (1923), Lady Jane Grey in ''Lady Jane Grey; Or, The Court of Intrigue'' (1923),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hxu-BQAAQBAJ&q=%2522nina%2520vanna%2522&pg=PT125|title=Women During the English Reformations: Renegotiating Gender and Religious Identity|last=Kramer|first=Kaley A.|date=2014-11-19|publisher=Springer|isbn=9781137465672|language=en}}</ref> ''[[The Man Without Desire]]'' (1923),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3ULAAAAMAAJ|title=Nice Work: The Story of Thirty Years in British Film Production|last=Brunel|first=Adrian|date=1 January 1949|publisher=Forbes Robertson|language=en}}</ref> ''[[The Cost of Beauty]]'' (1924) and ''[[The Woman Tempted]]'' (1926).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cyranos.ch/smvann-e.htm|title=Portrait of the actress Nina Vanna by Thomas Staedeli|website=www.cyranos.ch|access-date=22 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jq3UvEK_rHQC|title=The Tudors on Film and Television|last1=Parrill|first1=Sue|last2=Robison|first2=William B.|date=26 February 2013|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786458912|language=en}}</ref>

Just before beginning of filming of ''The Man Without Desire'', in which the actress played a young socialite, she was persuaded by [[Ivor Novello]], appearing as a Venetian aristocrat, to change her name to "something that sounded less emetic".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eSIhzKnNUf4C|title=Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins, 5th ed.|last=Room|first=Adrian|date=1 July 2010|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786457632|language=en}}</ref>

She extended her career to [[France]], [[Germany]] and [[Austria]] from 1924 with the new films ''La closerie des Genets'' (1924), ''Veille d'armes'' (1925), ''[[Männer vor der Ehe]]'' (1927), ''[[Café Elektric]]'' (1927), ''Die raffinierteste Frau Berlins'' (1927), ''[[A Murderous Girl]]'' (1927), ''Youth Astray'' (original title: ''Was die Kinder ihren Eltern verschweigen'', 1927),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CSBZqe0zPaMC|title="Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!": A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959|last=Schaefer|first=Eric|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=0822323745|language=en}}</ref> ''Was weisst Du von der Liebe/Gefährdete Mädchen'' (1927), [[La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin|''La vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin'']] (1930). After a longer pause followed her first and last [[sound film]] at the same time with ''[[The Show Goes On (film)|The Show Goes On]]'' (1937).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aYMrAAAAYAAJ|title=Beauty in Exile: The Artists, Models, and Nobility who Fled the Russian Revolution and Influenced the World of Fashion|last=Vasilʹev|first=Aleksandr|date=1 November 2000|publisher=Harry N. Abrams|isbn=9780810957015|language=en}}</ref>

Other movies included ''Love in an Attic'' (1923)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1c7eCwAAQBAJ|title=British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film|last=Gifford|first=Denis|date=1 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317740636|language=en}}</ref> ''[[The School for Scandal (1923 film)|The School for Scandal]]'' (1923), ''[[Guy Fawkes (film)|Guy Fawkes]]'' (1923),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lgoyBgAAQBAJ|title=Saints, Clergy and Other Religious Figures on Film and Television, 1895-2003|last=Paietta|first=Ann C.|date=1 July 2005|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476610160|language=en}}</ref> ''[[The Money Habit]]'' (1924), ''[[We Women]]'' (1925), ''Before the Battle'' (1925), ''[[Graziella (1926 film)|Graziella]]'' (1926), ''[[The Triumph of the Rat]]'' (1926),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ez4M-5zcYuYC&q=%2522nina%2520vanna%2522&pg=PA19|title=Dramatic Critic: Selected Reviews (1922-1939)|last=Morgan|first=Charles|date=31 May 2013|publisher=Oberon Books|isbn=9781849439411|language=en}}</ref> and ''Adventure Mad'' (1926).


==Selected filmography==
==Selected filmography==
* ''[[The Man Without Desire]]'' (1923)
* ''[[The Man Without Desire]]'' (1923)
* ''[[Guy Fawkes (film)|Guy Fawkes]]'' (1923)
* ''[[The Cost of Beauty]]'' (1924)
* ''[[The Money Habit]]'' (1924)
* ''[[We Women]]'' (1925)
* ''[[The Triumph of the Rat]]'' (1926)
* ''[[Three Cuckoo Clocks]]'' (1926)
* ''[[Graziella (1926 film)|Graziella]]'' (1926)
* ''[[Men Before Marriage]]'' (1927)
* ''[[A Murderous Girl]]'' (1927)
* ''[[Café Elektric]]'' (1927)
* ''[[Endangered Girls (1927 film)|Endangered Girls]]'' (1927)
* ''[[The Show Goes On (film)|The Show Goes On]]'' (1937)


==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.cyranos.ch/smvann-e.htm article on her]
*[http://www.cyranos.ch/smvann-e.htm article on her]
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Nina Vanna
Nina Vanna and Ivor Novello in "The Man Without Desire"
Born
Nina Yazykova

(1899-09-27)27 September 1899
Minsk, Belarus
Died8 November 1953(1953-11-08) (aged 54)
Battle, East Sussex, England, UK
OccupationActress
Years active1923–1937

Nina Kind Hakim Provatoroff, known by her stage name of Nina Vanna (née Yazykova; 27 September 1899 – 8 November 1953),[1] was a Russian-born British film actress who appeared in a number of silent films during the 1920s.

She sometimes played in historical dramas, playing Lady Jane Grey in the first of three film versions of her life (Lady Jane Grey; Or, the Court of Intrigue) and Lucrezia Borgia in what may be the first of several versions.

Vanna was married three times, first to Robert Kind from whom she was later divorced, secondly to film director Eric Hakim (1900–1967), whom she also divorced, and finally to an importer/exporter and art collector Peter Provatoroff[2] from 1946 until her death in Banstead, Surrey, UK.[3][4][5]

Career

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Vanna began her film career in England where she made her debut in Scrooge (1923) as Alice. In the next years followed her leading roles in films, among them A Christmas Carol (1923), Lucrezia Borgia; Or, Plaything of Power (1923), Lady Jane Grey in Lady Jane Grey; Or, The Court of Intrigue (1923),[6] The Man Without Desire (1923),[7] The Cost of Beauty (1924) and The Woman Tempted (1926).[8][9]

Just before beginning of filming of The Man Without Desire, in which the actress played a young socialite, she was persuaded by Ivor Novello, appearing as a Venetian aristocrat, to change her name to "something that sounded less emetic".[10]

She extended her career to France, Germany and Austria from 1924 with the new films La closerie des Genets (1924), Veille d'armes (1925), Männer vor der Ehe (1927), Café Elektric (1927), Die raffinierteste Frau Berlins (1927), A Murderous Girl (1927), Youth Astray (original title: Was die Kinder ihren Eltern verschweigen, 1927),[11] Was weisst Du von der Liebe/Gefährdete Mädchen (1927), La vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin (1930). After a longer pause followed her first and last sound film at the same time with The Show Goes On (1937).[12]

Other movies included Love in an Attic (1923)[13] The School for Scandal (1923), Guy Fawkes (1923),[14] The Money Habit (1924), We Women (1925), Before the Battle (1925), Graziella (1926), The Triumph of the Rat (1926),[15] and Adventure Mad (1926).

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ England & Wales, Death Index: 1916–2005
  2. ^ Taylor, Tobi Lopez (18 January 2016). Orzel: Scottsdale's Legendary Arabian Stallion. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781625854964.
  3. ^ Find-a-grave entry
  4. ^ "BFI Film and TV Database: Hakim, Eric". Archived from the original on 4 September 2009. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  5. ^ England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916–2005
  6. ^ Kramer, Kaley A. (19 November 2014). Women During the English Reformations: Renegotiating Gender and Religious Identity. Springer. ISBN 9781137465672.
  7. ^ Brunel, Adrian (1 January 1949). Nice Work: The Story of Thirty Years in British Film Production. Forbes Robertson.
  8. ^ "Portrait of the actress Nina Vanna by Thomas Staedeli". www.cyranos.ch. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  9. ^ Parrill, Sue; Robison, William B. (26 February 2013). The Tudors on Film and Television. McFarland. ISBN 9780786458912.
  10. ^ Room, Adrian (1 July 2010). Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins, 5th ed. McFarland. ISBN 9780786457632.
  11. ^ Schaefer, Eric (1 January 1999). "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!": A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959. Duke University Press. ISBN 0822323745.
  12. ^ Vasilʹev, Aleksandr (1 November 2000). Beauty in Exile: The Artists, Models, and Nobility who Fled the Russian Revolution and Influenced the World of Fashion. Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 9780810957015.
  13. ^ Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 9781317740636.
  14. ^ Paietta, Ann C. (1 July 2005). Saints, Clergy and Other Religious Figures on Film and Television, 1895-2003. McFarland. ISBN 9781476610160.
  15. ^ Morgan, Charles (31 May 2013). Dramatic Critic: Selected Reviews (1922-1939). Oberon Books. ISBN 9781849439411.
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