Elvira Popescu

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Elvira Popescu (Script error: No such module "IPA".; in French, Elvire Popesco; 10 May 1894 – 11 December 1993) was a Romanian-French stage and film actress and theatre director. During the 1930s and 1940s, she starred in a number of French comedy films.

Life and career

Popescu was born in Bucharest, and studied drama at the Music and Drama Conservatory in her native city, under the guidance of Constantin Nottara and Aristizza Romanescu.[1] In 1911 Template:Ill was making the first Romanian films to deal with fiction. He employed Popesco as well as other leading actors like Nottara and Romanescu. The first two films were called "Fatal Love" and "Spin a Yarn". No copies are known of these films.[2] Popesco made her debut at the National Theatre Bucharest at age 16.[1] In 1912, she played herself in the movie Independența României, directed by Template:Ill.

In 1919 she became artistic director of the Excelsior Theatre.[3] In 1921, Popescu started Teatrul Mic, which she managed in parallel with the Excelsior.[4] In 1923, she starred in the movie Țigăncușa de la iatac, directed by Alfred Halm.

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Elvire Popesco painting by Charles Gesmar (1925)

At the urging of Louis Verneuil, the French playwright, Popescu moved in 1924 to Paris. Under Verneuil's direction, she played the leading role in Ma Cousine de Varsovie, at the Théâtre Michel (1923). She also played in Tovaritch (1933), La Machine infernale (1954), Nina (1949), and La Mamma (1957). Later on, she was director of Théâtre de Paris (1956–1965), and Théâtre Marigny (1965–1978).[5] At age 84, she played again in La Mamma.

Elvira Popescu also played in movies, such as La Présidente (Fernand Rivers, 1938), Tricoche et Cacolet (Pierre Colombier, 1938), Ils étaient neuf célibataires (Sacha Guitry, 1939), Paradis perdu (Abel Gance, 1940), Austerlitz (Abel Gance, 1960),[6] and Purple Noon (René Clément, 1960).

Personal life

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Grave of Elvire Popescu at Père Lachaise Cemetery

Shortly after her debut in 1910, Popescu married comedian Aurel Athanasescu and they had a daughter named Tatiana.[7] After a few years, she divorced, and married Ion Manolescu-Strunga, Minister of Industry and Commerce[3] (who was to die in Sighet Prison in the 1950s). Her third husband was Count Maximilien Sébastien Foy (born in Paris on 17 April 1900, died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 11 November 1967).[8]

She died in Paris at age 97[9], and was interred at Père Lachaise Cemetery.[6]

Honours

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Villa Paul Poiret, April 2005

Legacy

Partial filmography

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The cinema Sala Elvire Popescu at the Institut Français de Roumanie in Bucharest is named in Popescu's honor

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  1. ↑ a b Mari Români
  2. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  3. ↑ a b Ciobanu
  4. ↑ Ciobanu, Mari Români
  5. ↑ "Marigny - Salle Popesco"
  6. ↑ a b c d Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  7. ↑ Mari Români, CinéArtistes
  8. ↑ "Families of Jules and Théodore Porgès"
  9. ↑ https://deces.matchid.io/search?advanced=true&ln=Popescu&fn=Elvira&bd=10%2F05%2F1896&dd=11%2F12%2F1993

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References

External links

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