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  • Category Motion Pictures

    Address 6562 Hollywood Blvd.

    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

About
Olga Petrova
Born:
1884-05-10,
Tur Brook,
England
Education:
NA
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Death Date:
-0001-11-30
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Olga Petrova

Olga Petrova was an American actress, screenwriter and playwright. Born as Muriel Harding in England, she moved to the United States and became a star of vaudeville using the stage name Olga Petrova. Petrova starred in a number of films for Solax Studios and was Metro Pictures first diva, usually given the role of a femme fatale. During her seven years in film, Petrova appeared in more than two dozen films and wrote the script for several others. Most of her films are now lost

Petrova left the film industry in 1918 but continued to act in Broadway productions. During the 1920s, she wrote three plays and toured the country with a theater troop. In 1942, she published her autobiography, Butter With My Bread. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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