Edwige Feuillère

Edwige Feuillère , of her true name Edwige Caroline Cunati , is a actress and French actress , born the October 29th 1907 with Vesoul (Haute-Saône) and deceased the November 13rd 1998 with Boulogne Billancourt.

Biography

Former student of the Conservatory of dramatic art of Dijon like Claude Jade and Marlène Jobert, it obtains there a first price of comedy and of tragedy in July 1928, it makes a career of more than sixty years on the boards (1930-1992) and more than forty years to the cinema (1931-1974). It incarnates unforgettable the Marguerite Gautier in the Lady with the camellias of Alexandre Dumas wire in 1939, with the Holy Theater of the Galleries Hubert in Brussels and in 1940 with the Hébertot Theater in Paris then again in 1942, before interpreting the character of Bound in Sodome and Gomorrhe of Jean Giraudoux in 1943.

With the cinema, it begins under the name Cora Lynn in 1931 in the Cordon-bleu cook . It turns then with the large directors of the time, Edwige Feuillère becomes famous in 1935 for its interpretation in Lucrèce Borgia in film of Abel Gance. Then with max Ophüls Without a future in 1939, then it interprets in 1940 the role of Sophie in De Mayerling in Sarajevo of very the max Ophüls and obtains a great success with Mam' zeal Bonaparte of Maurice Tourneur in 1941. One should not forget another important film of 1941, the Duchess of Langeais according to Honore de Balzac and on dialogs of Jean Giraudoux, in which she interprets vain caught up with by the great love interpreted by Pierre Richard-Willm, the partner of his beginnings to the cinema, to see Barcarolle in 1935.

One of the most popular high-speed motorboats of its generation, it plays with Gerard Philippe in the Idiot in 1946, according to Fedor Dostoïevski, and with Jean Marais in the Eagle with two heads of Jean Cocteau in 1947. It is, in 1949, marvellous a Julie de Carneilhan and, in 1954, the lady in white in the Corn out of grass , the Insane one of Chaillot of Jean Giraudoux in 1965.

Edwige Feuillère plays in 1975 in the Flesh of the orchis of Patrice Chéreau and, in 1984, the grandmother in the sad Killer .

In 1992, it returns to the theater thanks to Jean-Luc Tardieu, Directeur of the House of the culture of Loire-Atlantique and director, in a titled show Edwige Feuillère in Scene , it is an anthology of the most beautiful moments of his career, extracts of his greater roles, and the memory of his/her dear friends actors and authors, it occurred in Nantes with Space 44 and the Theater of the Madeleine in Paris for 50 representations

In 1993, the chain ARTE proposed to us splendid documentary filmed with the Museum Jacquemart-Andre in Paris, on the career of Edwige Feuillère, entitled Vertige Feuillère , the actress told her long career there by dividing into sheets a large book, one can see there some extracts of its larger films Without a future in 1939, the Eagle with Two Heads in 1947… One can get the cassette of the emission near the chain.

Its last role is, in 1995, the princess of Beaumont-Chauvry in the Duchess of Langeais of Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe.

With the theater, its presence and its voice, its charm and its grace offered to him Partage of midday of Paul Claudel to the sides of Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Brasseur, it was then the MUSE of the poet Claudel whose universe seyait to him particularly.

The role of the Eagle with two heads was written initially for Jean Marais and Marguerite Jamois, which refused, then Jean Cocteau proposed it in Edwige Feuillère for our greater happiness.

Association the Friends of Edwige Feuillère created in April 2003 in Paris, perpetuates the memory of the large artist.

A place of Paris is baptized Edwige Feuillère, since March 30th, 2007; she is located in the VIIe district, with the angle of the Sédillot streets and Dupont of the Cabins.

The centenary of Edwige Feuillère fits in the list of the national celebrations in 2007.

Complete catalog of films

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