[2] After graduating from the Women's Gymnasium, she worked as a clerk in the Moscow railway office, while taking private acting lessons from the actor and teacher of the Moscow Art Theater N. O. Massalitinov.

Her first role was the leading role of a peasant girl in the film "The Seagull" (based on the romance of those years "Here the morning flared up, a seagull flies over the lake").

The first film director she collaborated with was Yakov Protazanov, and her partner was Ivan Mozzhukhin.

After Protazanov's departure, Orlova worked on several films with Alexander Ivanovsky, and after Yakov Alexandrovich's return from emigration, she played a supporting role in his first Soviet film, Aelita.

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