Leontovich

[ lee-on-tuh-vich ]

noun

1. Eugenie Kon·stan·tin [kon, -st, uh, n-teen], 1900–1993, U.S. actress, director, and playwright, born in Russia.

Example Sentences

Perhaps it would still make a show piece for a pair of enormously skillful actors; but Eugenie Leontovich, with her fussy tricks and alien corn, and Basil Rathbone, with his striding and reciting, leave the play as arid as they find it.

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As the claimant, Viveca Lindfors is attractive and tremulous; as the Empress, Eugenie Leontovich invokes the grand manner imperially, without ever burlesquing it.

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Eugenie Leontovich, Mikhail Rasumny, Kurt Kasznar and Oscar Karlweis are believably human and humorous as toast-quaffing, banquet-tossing Georgians.

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Russian-American Actresses Miramova and Leontovich have scribbled a farce about Russian-American actresses and handed themselves the two gaudiest roles.

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Actress Eugenie Leontovich charged him with cruelty & desertion.

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