Amanda Alarie

Amanda Alarie (1889 - 1965), born Plant, wife of Sylva Alarie, choirmaster and assistant leader of the Canadian Company of operetta and mother of Pebble Alarie, soprano of career. It was lyric singer, artist of light comedy and Québécois actress.

In the years 1920, she studies the song at Arthur Laurendeau, professor with the national Academy and the Schola cantorum .

In 1937, it is one of the high-speed motorboats of the emission Taken care the of Saturday evening of CKAC, a radio of Montreal, as lyric singer. She takes part in the musical review Fridolinons and at the Fridolinades that Gratien Gélinas written and puts in scene between 1938 and 1946 and who call at the same time upon its aptitudes of singer and actress. In addition during the years 1930 and 1940, it lends its voice and its talent of actress to many popular characters of radioromans.

From 1942 to 1946 one parallel to finds it the theater in the Farming communities , in company of Hector Charland, Albert Duquesne, Estelle Maufette, Juliette Huot and Fred Barry. the Farming communities were a scenic adaptation of Claude-Henri Grignon of his novel a man and his sin , which it had just altered for the radio. He wrote this theatrical adaptation, following the phenomenal success of the radio broadcast. The distribution of the emission had simply made the jump with the scene. The public could thus put a face on the characters of the radioroman.

With the cinema, it incarnates Mrs. Chouinard in Large Bill , a film of Jean-Yves Bigras and Rene Delacroix appeared in 1949. In 1953 it is distribution of Tit-Cock , a signed Franco-Canadian coproduction Rene Delacroix and Gratien Gélinas, in the role of the Désilets mother.

On television, after having played the Plouffe mother of 1953 to 1959 in the televised series the Family Plouffe , drawn from the novel of Roger Lemelin Plouffe , one finds it taking again her character of Joséphine Plouffe in two other television serials of the universe of Lemelin: In top of the soft slope , between 1959 and 1961, then the Small world of the father Gédéon , in 1960.

Mrs Alarie died in 1965 at the 76 years age.

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