To star in Alexander Row’s first independent film “By Pike,” Georgy Millyar shaved his head and donated his eyebrows. The family looked at him in horror. However, for many years later, the actor and director were linked by joint creativity and a strong friendship. Favorite of children, he himself often behaved like a child. When Rowe got tired of his antics on set, he used a safety technique. “Yura, I’ll tell my mother!” – warned the manager. George immediately remembered the discipline.
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Relatives laughed a lot
Millyar’s (actually de Millier) mother was the daughter of an Irkutsk gold miner. Elizaveta Alekseevna married a bridge engineer of French origin. George was born on November 7, 119 years ago, in 1903. His father died when the future famous actor was not even three years old.
After the change of power, it was more reasonable to hide the “unreliable” origin. The large Moscow apartment in which the family lived was transformed into a common one. De Mille was assigned only one room. George did not advertise until the end of his life that he was fluent in French and German. Away from sin, he became Millyar.
The prerequisites for George to become an actor were in the family: his aunt was serving in the theater. But Millyar’s appearance has always been peculiar and his diction was lame. When he once pledged to represent Mephistopheles in front of his family, they laughed to tears.
After graduating from school, George worked as a production designer. They say that one possibility brought the future star to the stage: Millyar was able to successfully replace the sick artist, whose role she managed to memorize. As a result, she attended an acting school in a school at the Moscow Revolution Theater.
“Caesar, Voltaire, Suvorov – this is what I dream of, a sinner”
George has always really wanted to make it into the cinema. He loved cordial relations with Rowe. The country’s leading storyteller began to regularly shoot the artist in his films, even in multiple roles at once.
There were legends about how Millyar worked on images. The fairy tale characters in the interpretation of him are unforgettable. Especially Baba Yaga.
“In Vasilisa la Bella, my grandmother is such a summer resident with a bandage on her head, and in Morozko she has already become decrepit, weakened and sciatica tortured her, poor thing,” said the same actor.
He was ready to run in a thin suit in the cold, climb the stove, jump into the cold water. The artist genuinely loved children and loved to please them, but he secretly thought: “Blinding the character is strong, sharp, original. Shakespeare’s Caesar, Voltaire, Suvorov: this is what I dream of, a sinner.
“The roof will be repaired and I will reach the subway by tram”
Georgy Frantsevich’s mother was characterized by people who knew her as a very intelligent woman who had a huge influence on her son. As to why, until the death of Elizabeth Alekseevna, Georgy never married, there were different rumors. Including the unhappy love experienced by the actor. Millyar was considered by those around him to be sociable, cheerful and even a hooligan.
He was left completely alone at 65. It was then, at Rowe’s insistence, that the actor made an offer to his 59-year-old neighbor Marya Vasilievna. At her words that she no longer needs men, she laughed: “But I’m not a man. I am Baba Yaga.
Eyewitnesses said the relationship in this couple was very sweet. The artist named his wife Manechka and she named him Kosha. The couple received a one-bedroom apartment, albeit away from the subway and on the top floor, where the roof leaked.
To all requests to ask for something more decent, the artist replied: “The roof will be repaired and I will reach the subway by tram”. She only had a formal dress and a single coat.
In 1973, a terrible thing happened: at the age of 67, Rowe died after a serious illness. Millyar lived to be 69 years old. After the death of a friend and director, his career began to decline. The artist, if filmed, then in installments.
He suffered a lot, but he didn’t complain. I rejoiced at every invitation, a sign of attention. Georgy Frantsevich Millyar died quietly in his sleep in 1993 and was buried in the Troekurovsky cemetery in the capital.
Photo source: wikipedia.org, frame from the film, Tatyana Kuzmina / TASS
