Old Jazz by King Oliver's Orchestra! - Olga, 1930 video free download

King Oliver & His Orchestra - Olga, Fox-trot (D.C.Nelson /Joe Oliver), Victor 1930

NOTE: Fantastic King Oliver's trumpet and his band in a stunning slowfox under a tempting title "Olga" gave me a chance to present a couple of photographs of forgotten Russian-German film star of the 1930s, Olga Tschechova ( at 0:44 and 3:20 ) as well as a few other vamps of the early 1930s. What an era! What women!!! Just look and listen!

As for Tschechova - just recently I read her fascinating biography written by Anthony Beevor. She was a wife of a hysteric and unbalanced person, Mikhail Tschechow, who was a nephew of great Anton. Mikhail and Olga's marriage falled apart in three years. She then studied sculpture and acting with Konstanty Stanisławski and she had small parts in Russian movies in 1917 and 1918. In 1920 she went to Berlin to purchase theatre materials for her aunt, but she didn't return to Moscow. She had smaller parts in several silent movies (one filmed by Murnau) and in 1930 she bacame a German citizen. The sound movie and her unquestioned talent plus a snobistic air she skilfully sprayed around herself opened her avenue to a great film career in Third Reich. She was one of favourite Adolf Hitler's actresses. She had main roles in Liebe im Ring/Love in the Ring (1930, Reinhold Schünzel), the incredibly popular Die Drei von der Tankstelle/The Three From the Gas Station (1930, Wilhelm Thiele), and Liebling der Götter/Darling of the Gods (1930, Hanns Schwarz), and the German version of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Murder, Mary (1931). She also did the German-language versions of films in Hollywood but preferred to work in Europe. During the war she worked for the KGB among the highest nazi party circles. In 1945 she luckily returned to Moscow, where she ceased her film career. However, she never broke her ties with KGB, remaining a mysterious person and probably a double agent ever since she was allowed to leave Moscow back for Germany in 1950. In Munich she opened a successfull cosmetics company. She died in Germany in 1980, totally conscious and asking for champagne in the last minutes of her life.