- Source: Gabrielle Dorziat
Gabrielle Dorziat (25 January 1880 – 30 November 1979) was a French stage and film actress. Dorziat was a fashion trend setter in Paris and helped popularize the designs of Coco Chanel. The Théâtre Gabrielle-Dorziat in Épernay, France is named for her.
Biography
She was born in 1880. Dorziat made her stage début in 1898 at the Théâtre Royal du Parc in Brussels. She moved to Paris and appeared in Alfred Capus' La Bourse ou la vie (1900), but it was her performance as Thérèse Herbault in Chaîne anglaise (1906) that brought her to public attention. She became known for her off-stage life as well, becoming romantically involved with actors Lucien Guitry and Louis Jouvet. She had close friendships with Jean Cocteau, Jean Giraudoux, Coco Chanel, Paul Bourget and Henri Bernstein. During World War I Dorziat left France to tour the United States where she raised money for war refugees. After the war she toured Canada, South America and the rest of Europe.
In 1921 Dorziat appeared in her first film L'Infante à la rose. She went on to play in over sixty films including Mayerling, Les Parents terribles and Manon. In 1925, she married Count Michel de Zogheb, a friend of King Fuad I of Egypt. She published her memoirs Côté cour, côté jardin in 1968.
She died in 1979.
Partial filmography
Theatre
Chaîne anglaise by Camille Oudinot and Abel Hermant, Théâtre du Vaudeville (1906)
Les Jacobines by Abel Hermant, Théâtre du Vaudeville (1907)
Chérubin by Francis de Croisset, Théâtre Fémina (1908)
La Sonate à Kreutzer by Fernand Nozière and Alfred Savoir (1910)
Bel Ami (1912)
Les Éclaireuses by Maurice Donnay, Comédie Marigny (1913)
L'Épervier by Francis de Croisset, Théâtre de l'Ambigu (1914)
Un homme en habit by André Picard and Yves Mirande, Théâtre des Variétés (1920)
Comédienne by Jacques Bousquet, Paul Armont, Théâtre des Nouveautés (1921)
Trois et une by Denys Amiel, Théâtre Saint-Georges (1932)
Espoir by Henry Bernstein, Théâtre du Gymnase, with Claude Dauphin, Victor Francen and Renée Devillers, (1934)
La vie est si courte by Léopold Marchand, Théâtre Pigalle (1936)
Électre by Jean Giraudoux, Théâtre de l'Athénée (1937)
Les Parents terribles by Jean Cocteau, Théâtre des Ambassadeurs (1938)
La Machine à écrire by Jean Cocteau (1941)
Le Dîner de famille by Jean Bernard-Luc, Théâtre de la Michodière (1944)
References
External links
Gabrielle Dorziat at IMDb
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
6.2
7.494
No More Posts Available.
No more pages to load.
