Five Degrees of Separation Between Alla Nazimova and Larry David
From left: Alla Nazimova, Charles Bryant, Richard Yates, Monica Yates, Larry David

From left: Alla Nazimova, Charles Bryant, Richard Yates, Monica Yates, Larry David

Five degrees of separation between film and Broadway star Alla Nazimova and Larry David:

1. Nazimova was in a faux marriage with British actor Charles Bryant (shown here) for 13 years starting in 1912. The couple never actually married because Nazimova had married a man in Russia whom she’d immediately abandoned — the fact that they were not married had nothing to do with the fact that she was gay, as some sources say, and there is no evidence that Bryant was also gay.

2 Bryant left Nazimova for Marjorie Gilhooley whose father was a judge in New Jersey. They had two children, Charles Jr. and Sheila Bryant.

3. Shelia Bryant married novelist Richard Yates, the author of “Revolutionary Road” and other books. They had three daughters.

4. In the late 1980s, their middle daughter, Monica Yates, briefly dated …

5. Larry David, star and creator of HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” around the time he was pitching a new show featuring Jerry Seinfeld.

Cross posted from Playground to the Stars.

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