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Réjane [?] in Le Joug by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Réjane [?] in Le Joug

Vintage French postcard. Vaudeville. Photo by Reutlinger, Paris. S.I.P., 197/11. The card mentions this is Réjane in Le Joug, yet the woman depicted doesn't look a lot like Réjane. Le Joug by Albert Guinon and Jane Marny was first performed on 28 November 1902 at the Théâtre du Vaudeville (Paris).

Gabrielle Réjane (1856-1920) was a successful French stage actress and early silent film actress. She is most famous for her role of Catherine, in Sardou's play Madame Sans-Gene (1893), which she filmed twice.

Gertie Millar by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Gertie Millar

Vintage postcard, probably German by C.B.N.St., series 17-6 Dess., no. 7773. Mailed in Lillebonne, France, 25-4-1905.

Gertie Millar, born Gertrude Millar, married name Gertrude Ward, Countess of Dudley (Manningham, 21 February 1879 - Chiddingfold, 25 April 1952), was an English actress and singer, who peaked on the British stage in the 1900s.

Gertie Millar by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Gertie Millar

Vintage British postcard. Empire Series, London, No. 28. Printed in Berlin.

Gertie Millar, born Gertrude Millar, married name Gertrude Ward, Countess of Dudley (Manningham, 21 February 1879 - Chiddingfold, 25 April 1952), was an English actress and singer, who peaked on the British stage in the 1900s.

Sémiramis by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Sémiramis

Vintage French postcard. Card 11 (of 12). Stage play Sémiramis by Joseph Peladan, starring Segond-Weber, Act 1, Semiramis with the banner of her legions. Photo-ed. Charles Bernheim, Nimes.

Marguerite Moreno by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Marguerite Moreno

Vintage French postcard. Series Les artistes de la "Comédie Française" dans leur loge. Raphael Tuck et Fils, Editeurs, Paris, c. 1900. The photos, though, may have been a bit older, like the 1890s.

Marguerite Moreno (1871-1948) was a famous French stage and screen actress.

Marguerite Moreno was born in Paris at the 9th arrondissement, on 15 September 1871. She was the daughter of Pierre Monceau, teacher in mathematics, and Charlotte Lucie Moreno. Moreno studied in Paris and Bretagne, then entered the Paris Conservatoire, in the class of Gustave Worms. She was engaged by the Comédie-Française in 1890, and acted on stage with the famous names of the French stage: Charles Le Bargy, Mounet-Sully, Julia Bartet, Coquelin sr., Paul Mounet. She became the «muse of the Symbolists», and poet Stéphane Mallarmé’s close friend, but nevertheless she didn’t manage to convince him to stage his Hérodiade. It was Moreno who in 1898 organised his funeral , at he church and graveyard of Samoreau près la Seine where he had his country house. After being the mistress of poet Catulle Mendès (their son would die of meningitis), Moreno married in Britain writer Marcel Schwob, on 12 September 1900. Unfortunately Schwob fell ill and died in 1905, at the age of 37.

In 1903, Marguerite Moreno left the Comédie-Française and joined the Théâtre de Sarah Bernhardt, and afterwards the Théâtre Antoine. For seven years she ran in Buenos Aires the French section of the Conservatory. When the First World War broke out, she was active at the military hospital in Nice. In 1908 she had remarried actor Jean Daragon, but she lost her second husband in 1923. From 1915, she discovered cinema. In the silent era she played together with her husband (his last part) in Vingt ans après (1922) by Henri Diamant-Berger whe she impersonated Queen Anne of Austria “under a plaster-like make-up, with ringed eyes, and a rosebud mouth”, as Olivier Barrot and Raymond Chirat wrote in Noir & Blanc: 250 acteurs du cinéma français 1930-1960 (2000). She also acted in several other films by Diamant-Berger: Paris pendant la guerre (1916), Le Mauvais garçon (1923), opposite Maurice Chevalier in Gonzague (1923), L'Accordeur (1923) and L'Emprise (1924), starring Pierre de Guingand and Pierrette Madd. In the late 1920s she also acted in films like Le Capitaine Fracasse by Alberto Cavalcanti (1929), starring Pierre Blanchar and Lien Deijers.

When sound cinema arrived in France, Moreno had an enormous increase in film roles. In 1930-1932 she played at least one film part each month, a number which slowly went down in the course of the 1930s. On instigation of her friend and soulmate, the writer Colette, Moreno had started playing comedy, and in 1920, she had had a big success on stage with Le Sexe faible by Édouard Bourdet . Here she played “ an old Slavic countess who hires beautiful boys to pass boredom”, as Maurice Martin du Gard mentioned in his Carte rouge (1930). Moreno repeated the part in the adaptation filmed by Robert Siodmak in 1933 and starring Victor Boucher. Moreno often played countesses, duchesses and queens, though she included the lower classes as well. In the interbellum years Moreno installed herself in a an estate at the Lot province. It was renovated by her cousin Pierre Moreno, who lived with her and was her lover too. Pierre was himself an actor as well, often playing with her. Moreno spread her career between the stage and the screen, and according to Barrot and Chirat, “ she accepted all that was offered her. The average spectator’s laugh at each of her performances was enough for her.” She appeared e.g. in Un trou dans le mur (1930) by René Barberis, Tout va très bien madame la marquise (1936) by Henry Wulschleger, and La Fessée (1937) by Pierre Caron.

However, Moreno was also directed by Raymond Bernard in Les Misérables (1934), where together with Charles Dullin she played the evil couple Thenardier opposite Harry Baur as Jean Valjean. She played again aristocrats in Jean Delannoy's Paris-Deauville (1933) and in La dame de pique (1937) by Fedor Ozep. She did various parts in films by Sacha Guitry: Faisons un rêve, Le Roman d'un tricheur and Le Mot de Cambronne in 1936, Les Perles de la couronne in 1937, Ils étaient neuf célibataires in 1939, and Donne-moi tes yeux in 1943. With Marcel Pagnol she played in Regain (1937) starring Fernandel, and the uncompleted film La Prière aux étoiles (1941), with Christian-Jaque in Carmen (1942) and Un revenant (1946) with Louis Jouvet, and with Claude Autant-Lara she acted in Douce (1943). In 1945, next to Jouvet, she was a giant success on stage as Aurélie in La Folle de Chaillot, written for her by Jean Giraudoux. Her last film L'assassin est à l'écoute by Raoul André was released a few weeks after her death. Marguerite Moreno died in Touzac (Lot) on 14 July 1948. Her house and estate La Source bleue (The Blue Source) in Touzac was transformed in an inn by her heirs.

Paul Valéry considered her the only one capable to recite poems, so he invited her to recite them during his courses at the Collège de France. Paul Léautaud wrote on her: “Tonight while listening to Moreno in Aricie, I was crying softly…” and “People say she is ugly, but you cannot be ugly if you have such a expressive face, and so delicate at the same time – her eyes, her nose, her mouth are so full of wit. Moreover, she has it in such a way as seldom to be found in a woman. She is female malice and satire embodied.” The Marguerite Moreno Papers were purchased by Yale University in 2009.

Sources: IMD, French Wikipedia.

Réjane in Madame Sans-Gêne by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Réjane in Madame Sans-Gêne

Vintage French postcard. Ed. le Deley, Paris. Réjane as the laundress Catherine in Victorien Sardou's stage play Madame Sans-Gêne (1893), originally first staged at the Théâtre du Vaudeville, but here performed at the Théâtre Moncey. On this card, probably also Adolphe Candé as Lefebvre, a part he also played in the original play of 1893.

Réjane in Madame Sans-Gêne by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Réjane in Madame Sans-Gêne

Vintage French postcard. Ed. le Deley, Paris. Réjane as the laundress Catherine in Victorien Sardou's stage play Madame Sans-Gêne (1893), originally first staged at the Théâtre du Vaudeville, but here performed at the Théâtre Moncey. The man on this card is Adolphe Candé as Lefebvre, a part he also played in the original play of 1893.

Sarah Bernhardt conferencière by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Sarah Bernhardt conferencière

Vintage French postcard. Photo collage. The cards suggests all the famous actors and actress of the 1900s are listening to Sarah Bernhardt performing. The reality might have been different. Inserted in the collage are e.g. Gabrielle Réjane (in Mme Sans-Gêne), Albert Lambert fils, Mounet-Sully, Georges Wague, Madeleine Roch, Marthe Regnier, and Eugénie Segond Weber. F.C. & Cie, 1.

French vedette Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) has been referred to as 'the most famous actress in the history of the world'. She developed a reputation as a serious dramatic actress, earning her the nickname 'The Divine Sarah'. Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of Europe in the 1870s and was soon high in demand in both Americas too. And she was one of the first film stars. What a woman!

Gabrielle Réjane (1856-1920) was a successful French stage actress and early silent film actress. She is most famous for her role of Catherine, in Sardou's play Madame Sans-Gene (1893), which she filmed twice.

Réjane by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Réjane

Vintage French postcard. A.N., Paris, No. 42. Photo by Reutlinger, Paris. Ca. 1910s.

Gabrielle Réjane (1856-1920) was a successful French stage actress and early silent film actress. She is most famous for her role of Catherine, in Sardou's play Madame Sans-Gene (1893), which she filmed twice.

Réjane by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Réjane

Vintage French postcard. A.L. B. 146.

Gabrielle Réjane (1856-1920) was a successful French stage actress and early silent film actress. She is most famous for her role of Catherine, in Sardou's play Madame Sans-Gene (1893), which she filmed twice.

Mme Réjane dans sa loge by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Mme Réjane dans sa loge

Vintage French postcard. Raphael Tuck & Fils, Editeurs, Paris, Series 200. Réjane in her dressing-room. The colorosing and the serial number remind of our cards for Réjane's play Madame Sans-Gêne (1893).

Gabrielle Réjane (1856-1920) was a successful French stage actress and early silent film actress. She is most famous for her role of Catherine, in Sardou's play Madame Sans-Gene (1893), which she filmed twice.

Réjane by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Réjane

Vintage French postcard. Photo by Reutlinger, Paris. S.I.P. 29, series n. 17.

Gabrielle Réjane (1856-1920) was a successful French stage actress and early silent film actress. She is most famous for her role of Catherine, in Sardou's play Madame Sans-Gene (1893), which she filmed twice.

Madame Sans-Gêne by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Madame Sans-Gêne

Vintage (probably ) Italian postcard. NRM, 1900s. Act II, Scene III, of the play Madame Sans-Gêne by Sardou. Napoleon orders his assassin Laugier to be released. Yet, this may not refer to Sardou's play with Réjane but perhaps one of the early film versions (1900 and 1911), which were with Réjane), or an Italian stage version without Réjane.

Gabrielle Réjane (1856-1920) was a successful French stage actress and early silent film actress. She is most famous for her role of Catherine, in Sardou's play Madame Sans-Gene (1893), which she filmed twice.

Madame Réjane by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Madame Réjane

Vintage British postcard. The Wrench series, 4700. Printed in Saxony.

Gabrielle Réjane (1856-1920) was a successful French stage actress and early silent film actress. She is most famous for her role of Catherine, in Sardou's play Madame Sans-Gene (1893), which she filmed twice.

Réjane by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Réjane

Vintage French postcard. Photo by Reutlinger. S.I.P., Paris. Réjane as the laundress Cathérine in Mme Sans-Gêne.

Gabrielle Réjane (1856-1920) was a successful French stage actress and early silent film actress. She is most famous for her role of Catherine, in Sardou's play Madame Sans-Gene (1893), which she filmed twice.

Réjane by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Réjane

Vintage French postcard. Vaudeville. S.I..P. 1067. Photo by Reutlinger, Paris. Card mailed in 1906.

Gabrielle Réjane (1856-1920) was a successful French stage actress and early silent film actress. She is most famous for her role of Catherine, in Sardou's play Madame Sans-Gene (1893), which she filmed twice.

L'esclavage d'Hercule (1905) by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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L'esclavage d'Hercule (1905)

Vintage French postcard. Ed. Privat-Bonbonneau. Champigny s. Marne, Théâtre Antique de la Nature. Albert Darmont as Hercule and Mme Garay-Myriel as Myrrha in L'Esclavage d'Hercule by Charles Grandmougin. Bacchus, jealous of Hercules' glory, makes him fall in love with a priestess of Minerva, Myrrha.

In 1905 stage actor Albert Darmont created in his hometown Champigny-sur-Marne, near Paris, his own open-air theatre, the Théâtre Antique de la Nature. Darmont opened the stage in July 1905 with Sémiramis by Peladan, wth Segond-Weber in the title role. L'esclavage d'Hercule was one of the subsequent plays he staged, which opened on 10 September 1905 there, in addition to Le Cid and Phèdre. Madeleine Roch played the female lead of Chrysis, while Mme Garay-Myriel played the priestess Myrrha. Alas, a tempest destroyed the performance of the première after the first scenes - the risk of an open-air performance. San Gaulois and Horace closed off the open air season in Champigny that year. The theatre disappeared soon after Darmont's death in 1913, but his own house in Champigny survives.

Sources: Gallica, Louis Vel Durand in Le Vieux St Maur (1948).

Albert Darmont (1863-1913) was a French stage actor, who was born and died at Champigny-sur-Marne. Darmont was famous for his performances with Sarah Bernhardt, whom he accompanied during her international tours. In the 1890s he often played with Bernhardt at the Théâtre de la Renaissance, as in Phèdre (1893), Magda (1895), and Médée (1898). In 1902 he acted the male lead in the reprisal of L'Aiglon opposite Bernhardt at her own Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt. Damont also acted opposite Cora Laparcerie in La Samaritaine (1897) by Edmond Rostand, performed in 1904 at the Théâtre de la Nature in Cauterets. He is known as the founder of the Théâtre Antique de la Nature in Champigny, with for a few years rivalled with other French open-air theatres like those in Cauterets, Béziers and Orange.

Régina Camier by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Régina Camier

Vintage French postcard, 1920s. Series Nos artistes dans leur loge. Comoedia, Nr. 113.

Régina Camier (1894-?) was a French stage and screen actress, famous for her little feet. It is clear she had a rich theatre career in the 1920s and 1930s, in plays by Crommelynck (Le Cocu magnifique, 1920, reprised 1926 and 1935) and Duvernois ( La Guitare et le Jazz-band, 1924; Coeur, 1930; Jeanne, 1932). At one stage she even owned a theatre. She also directed two operettas in the 1920s: Un bon garçon (1926-27) and Comte Obligado! (1927-28).

Yet, it is unclear how much film she did. Cine-Ressources indicates only a small part in Par la vérité (1917) by Gaston Leprieur and Maurice de Féraudy. The BFI indicates she is visible in a British Gaumont newsreel of 1922, Around the Town No. 110. Camier was married to Léon Deutsch (1892-1982), who built the Théâtre des Nouveautés in 1920.

Sources: Gallica, Les Archives du Spectacle, Cine-Ressources, BFI.

Devilder by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Devilder

Vintage French postcard, 1920s. Series Nos artistes dans leur loge. Comoedia Nr., 105.

This could be the actress Renée Devilder (?-?). Between 1926 and 1931 she played in various operettas, such as No no, Nanette (1926) starring Félix Oudart, and Brummel (1931). In the early 1930s she acted in seven French musical films. After debuting in a supporting part in the French alternative version Moi et l'impératrice (Friedrich Hollaender, Paul Martin, 1933) starring Lilian Harvey, Devilder had the lead opposite Jean Garat in Cent mille francs pour un baiser (Hubert Bourlon & Georges Delance, 1933). Yet, mostly she played supporting parts.

Sonia Pavloff by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Sonia Pavloff

Vintage French postcard, 1920s. Series Nos artistes dans leur loge. Comoedia Nr., 273.

During the 1910s and 1920s, Sonia Pavloff (1885-1938), born in Russia, was a renowned dancer at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.