Olga Petrova

Olga Petrova

Born: May 10, 1884
Died: November 30, 1977
in Tur Brook, England, UK
Olga Petrova (née Muriel Harding) was a British-American actress, screenwriter and playwright. Not to be confused with the Russian silent film actress of the same name.

Movies for Olga Petrova...

The Panther Woman
Title: The Panther Woman
Released: November 25, 1918
Type: Movie
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Daughter of Destiny
Title: Daughter of Destiny
Character: Marion Ashley
Released: December 23, 1917
Type: Movie
In the days before the U.S. enters World War I Marion Ashley, an American woman living in Paris, discovers that her husband, Franz Jorn, is a spy. So she leaves him and goes to the neighboring (and fictional) neutral nation of Belmark to stay with her father, an American Ambassador. After she hears her husband has been killed, she resumes an old romance with the Crown Prince and they go through a secret morganatic marriage ceremony.
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Exile
Title: Exile
Character: Claudia Perez
Released: September 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Vincento Perez, the governor of the Portuguese colony of Exile, is an unscrupulous and brutal man who is hated by the natives. Furthering his schemes, Perez tries to force silk dealers out of business, and reveals his plans to government engineer Richmond Harvey in a letter appealing for the American's help.
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Law of the Land
Title: Law of the Land
Character: Margaret Harding
Released: August 12, 1917
Type: Movie
In order to save her mother from disgrace, Margaret marries Richard Harding even though she really loves Geoffrey Morton.
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The Waiting Soul
Title: The Waiting Soul
Character: Grace Vaughan
Released: April 2, 1917
Type: Movie
This morality play of the starts off with Grace Vaughn running off with married man Dudley Kent (Wyndham Standing). While sailing to England, they meet Mr. and Mrs. Hargrove. Mrs. Hargrove tries to talk Grace out of ruining her life, but the girl won't listen. After a few months, Kent leaves Grace and she gets mixed up with a woman who runs a house of ill repute.
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Bridges Burned
Title: Bridges Burned
Character: Mary O'Brien
Released: February 5, 1917
Type: Movie
When Mary O'Brien falls in love with Ernest Randall, the younger son of an English baronet, she gives herself completely to him and becomes pregnant. Her father (Robert Broderick), an Irish gentleman, finds this out and demands that she marry Randall.
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The Black Butterfly
Title: The Black Butterfly
Character: Sonia Smirnov / Marie - The Convent Girl
Released: December 4, 1916
Type: Movie
Sonia Smirnov, a Paris opera singer known as "The Black Butterfly", starts an affair with young Alan Hall. Hall, however, is still pining over his previous lover, a young peasant girl.
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Extravagance
Title: Extravagance
Character: Norma Russell (as Madame Olga Petrova)
Released: November 6, 1916
Type: Movie
Raised in the lap of luxury, Norma Russell is ill-prepared for her father's financial reverses. In exchange for a $25,000 loan, Norma's dad promises her hand in marriage to bank president Howard Dundore.
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The Eternal Question
Title: The Eternal Question
Character: Bianca
Released: July 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Pierre Felix, a couturier, makes a $25,000 bet with Ralph Courtland that he can take a girl from the streets, dress her appropriately, and within three months have her accepted into society.
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The Scarlet Woman
Title: The Scarlet Woman
Released: May 29, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Soul Market
Title: The Soul Market
Character: Elaine Elton (as Olya Petrova)
Released: March 12, 1916
Type: Movie
Having made public her disdain for wealthy men, musical comedy actress Elaine Elton is nonetheless ardently pursued by a handsome young millionaire who, for her sake, poses as his own chauffeur. A romance blossoms, but Elaine cannot accept the handsome millionaire's marriage proposal; she has already promised to marry a powerful producer who has threatened to blacklist her from Broadway if she refuses to become his bride.
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What Will People Say?
Title: What Will People Say?
Released: January 3, 1916
Type: Movie
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My Madonna
Title: My Madonna
Character: Lucille
Released: October 25, 1915
Type: Movie
Inspired by a Robert W. Service poem, the story concerns a Parisian demimonde named Lucille who becomes the model of an aspiring artist named Robert. Falling in love with Robert, Lucille endeavors to spare him disappointment by secretly buying his "unsaleable" paintings. Luck of luck, one of his portraits of Lucille, "My Madonna," wins first prize in an art contest.
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The Vampire
Title: The Vampire
Character: Jeanne Lefarge
Released: August 9, 1915
Type: Movie
The Vampire is a surviving 1915 silent film drama directed by Alice Guy and starring Olga Petrova. It is one of Petrova's and Guy's few surviving silent films.
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Heart of a Painted Woman
Title: Heart of a Painted Woman
Released: April 19, 1915
Type: Movie
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The Tigress
Title: The Tigress
Character: Stella
Released: December 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Heroine Stella is not a "tigress" at all, but instead a loving wife and mother. All this changes when the despotic and rapacious Governor of Euturia, whose sexual overtures have been spurned by Stella, orders that her husband be executed and her child kidnapped.