Well, where are you, “Girls”: how was the fate of the actresses of the legendary film

In the early 60s, Inna was already a well-known actress, winning the Stalin Prize for the role of Lyubov Shvetsova in The Young Guard. And also a divorced woman (her first husband was Sergei Bondarchuk) with her teenage daughter Natasha. The role of telephone operator Nadia, thanks to her great life experience, came easily to her.

After “Girls”, Makarova starred in many films: “Balzaminov’s Marriage”, “Crime and Punishment”, “Dead Souls”, etc. of death.

The main actress of “Girls” – Tosya Kislitsyna – was also a famous actress. She was destined for national fame and many other excellent roles … and she starred in a few films (including the famous film “Queen of the Gas Station”), after which she married diplomat Willy Khshtoyan and left with him and his daughter Karina on a business trip to the border.

For more than ten years, Rumyantseva lived first in Malaysia, then in Egypt and contented herself with rare episodic roles during her stays in Russia.

She, however, found another occupation for herself – film music. Few people know that, for example, Nina in the “Prisoner of the Caucasus” speaks with the voice of Rumyantseva!

In the 80s, the actress hosted the TV show “Alarm Clock”, and after perestroika she played only three small roles in the cinema.

Nadezhda Rumyantseva died on April 8, 2008 from a brain tumor. Before that, she suffered for many years from headaches, which have haunted the actress since 1996: robbers entered the apartment, and one of them hit her on the head.

Luciena was born in Ashgabat and dreamed of becoming an actress. She served at the Mayakovsky Theater when in 1958 she was offered a role in the film Father’s House. It was there that the director of “Girls” Yuri Chulyukin noticed her and offered her a role in his tape. Luciena did a great job with the role of Katya and even sang the song “Old Maple”, which became popular.

True, unlike her film colleagues, the directors did not line up in front of her with a proposal for the main roles: only in the comedy “Mom Got Married” she played the “first violin” – Nina Golubeva.

Ovchinnikov was not upset by this. Since 1966 she had been married to actor Valentin Kozlov and was completely happy. Luciena Ivanovna had no children, and after her husband’s death in 1998 she never recovered, dying on January 9, 1999, from a blood clot.

After graduating from VGIK, she began to act in films immediately after graduation, in parallel with her work in the Theater-Studio of a film actor. She married director Stanislav Rostotsky and in 1957 gave birth to a son, Andrei. After the film “The Ballad of a Soldier” (1959), she was invited to the role of “Vera’s mother” in “Girls”.

After the film’s success, Vera continued acting in films. In her husband’s film “We will live until Monday” she played teacher Svetlana Mikhailovna. Then there were roles in the films “Waiting for a Miracle”, “School Waltz”, “Visit to the Minotaur” …

After the collapse of the USSR, she played only two episodic roles in films. She died of cardiac arrest on December 26, 2007.

The youngest of the “Girls” – at the time of filming she was 27 years old. Druzhinina wanted to become a ballet dancer, but got injured and refocused on VGIK, graduating first as an actor and then as a director. In 1958, she married cameraman Anatoly Mukasey and gave birth to a son, also named Anatoly.

In “Girls” Svetlana played the telephone operator Anfisa, after which she starred in several more films. In 1966 she gave birth to her son Mikhail, and from the 70s she switched to directing. She directed the films “Princess of the Circus”, “Midshipmen Go! (and sequels) and the “Secrets of palace coups” series.

In 1978, a misfortune happened in the Druzhinina family. The eldest son Anatoly became addicted to drugs and committed suicide. Shortly before that, her son was born. This story has long been shrouded in mystery and only family friends knew what really happened to him.

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