Ekaterina Fyodorovna Savinova (Russian: Екатерина Фёдоровна Савинова; 26 December 1926 – 25 April 1970) was a Soviet theatre and film actress and singer most famous for the leading role in the comedy movie Come Tomorrow, Please... directed by her husband Yevgeny Tashkov.

[1] Ekaterina Savinova was born in the Yeltsovka village (modern-day Yeltsovsky District, Altai Krai of Russia) into a peasant family, the youngest of four children.

She was too late for exams, so she studied in a farming university and in half a year entered an additional VGIK course launched by Vasili Vanin.

She was soon dismissed "for the lack of acting skills", but this didn't stop her, and during the next summer she became a VGIK student under Boris Bibikov and his wife Olga Pyzhova.

[4][3] She played her first big role in 1949 in the musical comedy Cossacks of the Kuban where she also performed the singing parts.

The heroine – named after Savinova's childhood friend Frosya Burlakova – was also a young girl with a unique voice who arrived to Moscow from a small Siberian village Yeltsovka hoping to enter the Gnessin College, too late for exams.

In addition to all singing parts, Savinova also voiced one of the characters – Maria Semyonovna, an elderly housekeeper named after her mother.

The spouses then toured around the country with concerts where Tashkov talked about filmmaking and Savinova performed with songs.

In 1964 she played another notable role in the comedy Balzaminov's Marriage, yet the illness had been progressing, and Savinova felt it.

[8][9] Same year a book of memoirs and other writings left by the actress, Light of the Faded Star: Ekaterina Savinova, was published.