He directed a pro-Stalin film, International (Интернационал), the following year and after a meeting with Stalin and Maxim Gorky, he embarked on making the first Soviet musical, Jolly Fellows, starring Leonid Utyosov and Lyubov Orlova, whom Aleksandrov would later marry.
In it, Utyosov performed such hits as "Serdtse" (Heart), "Me and My Masha at the Samovar," and "Tired Sun", also known in English as "Burnt by the Sun" (revived by Nikita Mikhalkov as a theme for his eponymous Oscar-winning film).
Leonid Brezhnev | Leonid Kuchma | Leonid Kravchuk | Leonid Gaidai | Leonid Serebrennikov | Leonid Kuravlyov | Leonid Krasin | Leonid Dushkin | Leonid Andreyev | Leonid Sobinov | Leonid Popov | Leonid Plyushch | Leonid Pasternak | Leonid Korchmar | Leonid Yatsenko | Leonid Yakubovich | Leonid Vysheslavsky | Leonid Volodarskiy | Leonid Vaseršteĭn | Leonid Utyosov | Leonid Tălmaci | Leonid Sokov | Leonid Skirko | Leonid Reiman | Leonid Pastur | Leonid Parfyonov | Leonid Minin | Leonid Mikhailovich Shkadov | Leonid Markelov | Leonid Mandelstam |