So the director took revenge on the actress.
Nonna Mordyukova has always been known as an actress with a difficult character. On the set of The Diamond Hand, Leonid Gaidai had a hard time with her, and the director regretted that he had taken her to the role of house manager. In retaliation, he gave the heroine an unpleasant surname, which flashed in the frame only once.
When the artist was casting, she almost did not impress him. Gaidai saw her as a dramatic heroine, but her grotesque merchant’s wife in the comedy The Marriage of Balzaminov inspired hope in the director. So the role of the house manager in the “Diamond Arm” went to Mordyukova.
On the set, they had fights with the director every now and then. Nonna Viktorovna “taught” Gaidai how to play and lectured other actors. Andrey Mironov, whom the artist called sissy, especially suffered from her. Leonid Iovich could not stand the behavior of Mordyukova, and conflicts constantly flared up between them.
In retaliation, the director “rewarded” her heroine with the offensive surname Plush. She can be seen already at the end, when a poster was placed near the house. It clearly shows that the name of the heroine is Plyushch. That’s how Leonid Iovich pinned the artist, who now and then interfered with his work.
