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Mary Marquet (born Micheline Marguerite Delphine Marquet; 14 April 1895 – 29 August 1979) was a French stage and film actress.




Career


Marquet came from a family of artists: her parents were actors, an aunt was a star dancer at the Paris Opera, and another was an official at the Comédie-Française. She entered the National Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art in 1913 and studied under Paul Mounet. She failed her final exams, but was immediately engaged in the company of Sarah Bernhardt, who was a great friend of the family. She went on play alongside her in The anti-war play by Eugene Morand, Les Cathédrales.
She became established with her role in L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, whose mistress she became from 1915 to his death in 1918. She made her film debut in 1914 in a silent film, Les Frères ennemis, which was never finished. She appeared in Sarah Bernhardt's last film, La Voyante in 1923, which was filmed in the great actress's home in Paris; unfortunately Sarah died during the production and it was released with another actor playing her in long shots. Marquet's first major film role was in Sappho, produced by Léonce Perret in 1932. After World War I, she joined the Comédie-Française in 1923 where she stayed for over twenty years, before moving to the boulevard Theatre.
In 1928 she became the face of a lipstick launched by Offenthal, claiming that "The Offenthal lipstick embellishes your kiss".

During the World War II, throughout the occupation, she sought the protection of German officers to protect her son who had told her of his intention to join the Resistance. The response was his arrest and deportation to Buchenwald concentration camp where he died aged 21. This was possibly the cause of her problems at the time of the Liberation when, due to her alleged relations with the enemy, Marquet was arrested and sent to Drancy and then to Fresnes. She was later released for lack of evidence.
In the 1950s, she turned to poetry recital, while continuing her career in theater on the boulevards. She worked for ORTF in the Maigret episodes of Les Cinq Dernières Minutes and Les Saintes Chéries and in the television adaptation of Lucien Leuwen, the novel by Stendhal.
Parallel to her acting career, as an antiquarian she ran a stand for many years at the Swiss Village, an important antique market in Paris where she demonstrated her skills as a saleswoman, mixing theatrical memorabilia with commercial interests.
Among her most successful parts in over forty films, were her roles in, Landru in 1962, Claude Chabrol, La Grande Vadrouille in 1966 by Gérard Oury, and Casanova in 1975 by Federico Fellini. After these three minor parts she played important roles in La vie de château (1966) the mother of Philippe Noiret and the stepmother of Catherine Deneuve and the Le malin plaisir (1975) with Claude Jade and Anny Duperey.




Personal life



Her first lover was Edmond Rostand around 1915, living together for three years. In 1920 she married Maurice Escande, the future director of the house of Molière, ending in divorce in 1921, before meeting Firmin Gémier, the director of the new Théâtre National Populaire, who was still married but whose wife was barren. In 1922, Marquet gave birth to their son.
Before the death of Gémier in 1933, Marquet became the mistress of the president of the then Council, André Tardieu, in a semi-official liaison. Having broken up with Tardieu, she married Victor Francen. The couple separated after seven years together. Marquet died of heart attack at the age of 84 in her apartment in the Rue Carpeaux, She is buried in Montmartre Cemetery.




Filmography






= Cinema

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= Television

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1968: Les Saintes Chéries (episode Ève et les grands-parents (Daniel Gélin's mother and Henri Crémieux's wife)) - La mère de Pierre
1969: Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (by Claude Loursais, episode Traitement de choc) - Mémée Trévières
1972: Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (by François Villiers, episode: Maigret se fâche) - Mme Bernadette Armorelle
1973-1974: Lucien Leuwen (mini-serie) (by Claude Autant-Lara, TV Movie) - Mme de Marcilly
1974: Paul et Virginie (TV series) (by Pierre Gaspard-Huit) - Tante Vauté (1974)




Theatre






= Before time at the Comédie-Française

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1912: Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, théâtre de l'Odéon
1920]: L'Homme à la rose by Henry Bataille, mise-en-scène André Brulé, théâtre de Paris
1921: Le Caducée by André Pascal, Théâtre de la Renaissance, théâtre du Gymnase
1921: La Bataille by Pierre Frondaie d'après Claude Farrère, mise-en-scène Firmin Gémier, théâtre Antoine
1922: L'Insoumise by Pierre Frondaie, théâtre Antoine




= During time at the Comédie-Française

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Admission at the Comédie-Française in 1923
Sociétaire from 1928 to 1945
376th sociétaire
1923: Oreste by René Berton from Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides, Comédie-Française
1923: Jean de La Fontaine ou Le Distrait volontaire by Louis Geandreau et Léon Guillot de Saix, Comédie-Française
1924: Les Trois Sultanes by Charles-Simon Favart, Comédie-Française
1924: La Victoire de Ronsard by René Berton, Comédie-Française
1924: L'Adieu by Louis Vaunois, Comédie-Française
1924: La Reprise by Maurice Donnay, Comédie-Française
1925: Esther by Racine, Comédie-Française
1927: La Torche sous le boisseau by Gabriele D'Annunzio, Comédie-Française
1928: Les Noces d'argent by Paul Géraldy, Comédie-Française
1930: Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement by Prosper Mérimée, mise-en-scène Émile Fabre, Comédie-Française
1932: Christine by Paul Géraldy, Comédie-Française
1934: Andromaque by Racine, mise-en-scène Raphaël Duflos, Comédie-Française – Andromaque
1935: Madame Quinze de Jean Sarment, mise-en-scène de l'auteur, Comédie-Française
1935: Lucrèce Borgia by Victor Hugo, mise-en-scène Émile Fabre, Comédie-Française – Lucrèce Borgia
1936: Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, mise-en-scène Lugné-Poe, Comédie-Française – Hedda Gabler
1936: La Rabouilleuse by Émile Fabre after Honoré de Balzac, mise-en-scène Émile Fabre, Comédie-Française – Flore Brazier
1938: Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, mise-en-scène Lugné-Poe, Comédie-Française – Hedda Gabler
1938: Tricolore by Pierre Lestringuez, mise-en-scène Louis Jouvet, Comédie-Française
1939: Athalie by Jean Racine, Comédie-Française – Athalie
1941: Lucrezia Borgia by Victor Hugo, mise-en-scène Émile Fabre, Comédie-Française – Lucrèce Borgia
1942: Iphigénie en Tauride by Goethe, mise-en-scène Jean Yonnel, Comédie-Française – Iphigénie
1942: Phèdre by Racine, mise-en-scène Jean-Louis Barrault, Comédie-Française
1943: Renaud et Armide by Jean Cocteau, mise-en-scène by the author, Comédie-Française
1943: Iphigénie à Delphes by Gerhart Hauptmann, mise-en-scène Pierre Bertin, Comédie-Française – Iphigénie
1943: The Satin Slipper by Paul Claudel, mise-en-scène Jean-Louis Barrault, Comédie-Française
1944: Horace by Corneille, mise-en-scène Mary Marquet, Comédie-Française




= After time at the Comédie-Française

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1945: Les Dames de Niskala by Hella Wuolijoki, Théâtre Édouard VII
1948: Interdit au public by Roger Dornès and Jean Marsan, mise en scène Alfred Pasquali, Comédie-Wagram
1950: La Grande Pauline et les Petits Chinois by René Aubert, mise-en-scène Pierre Valde, Théâtre de l'Étoile
1951: Mort d'un rat by Jan de Hartog, mise en scène Jean Mercure, Théâtre Gramont
1951: Les Vignes du seigneur by Robert de Flers and Francis de Croisset, mise-en-scène Pierre Dux, Théâtre de Paris
1953: Le Ravageur by Gabriel Chevallier, mise-en-scène Alfred Pasquali, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens
1955: Les Trois messieurs de Bois-Guillaume by Louis Verneuil, mise-en-scène Christian-Gérard, avec Fernand Gravey, Théâtre des Variétés
1957: The Castle by Franz Kafka, mise-en-scène Jean-Louis Barrault Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt
1963: Pour Lucrèce de Jean Giraudoux, mise en scène Raymond Gérôme, Festival de Bellac
1963: Sémiramis by Marc Camoletti, mise-en-scène Michel de Ré, Théâtre Édouard VII
1966: Se trouver de Luigi Pirandello, mise-en-scène Claude Régy, Théâtre Antoine
1969: Le Bon Saint-Éloi de Pierrette Bruno, mise en scène Jacques Mauclair, La Pépinière-Théâtre
1971: La Maison de Zaza de Gaby Bruyère, mise-en-scène Robert Manuel, with Alfred Pasquali, Théâtre des Nouveautés




Publications


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Ce que j'ose dire
Ce que je n'ai pas dit
Tout n'est peut-être pas dit




References






Further reading


Foucart, Yvan (2007). Dictionnaire des comédiens français disparus (in French). Mormoiron: Éditions cinéma. ISBN 978-2-9531-1390-7.




External links


Mary Marquet at IMDb

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