Crossed the path of the fatal beauty.
Lyudmila Gurchenko was one of the main film stars of Soviet cinema. But one day the beautiful actress was bypassed by her much less spectacular colleague, which caused a storm of indignation among the star of Carnival Night.
We are talking about Iya Savvina, who intercepted the role in the film “Lady with a Dog” from Gurchenko. The main contender was precisely Lyudmila Markovna, but the director gave preference to Savvina. Gurchenko for a long time could not come to terms with the fact that such an “inconspicuous girl” was taken into this picture instead of her.
Later, Iya Sergeevna became a real star of Soviet cinema. She starred in the films “Anna Karenina”, “Romance of Lovers”, “Garage” and others. However, the fate of Savvina cannot be called happy. From her first husband, the actress gave birth to a son, Sergei, who was diagnosed with Down syndrome. But, despite the illness, the artist’s heir was able to live a long life. He was an actor and was also a professor. Sergey died in 2021 at the age of 64.
As for Savvina herself, after the 90s her career went downhill. She began to appear much less frequently. The actress died in 2011 – the cause of her death was skin cancer.