Guilda

Guilda (June 21st 1924 with Paris -) (also known under the names of Jean Guilda and Jean Guida of Mortellaro ) is a Artiste disguised which made career in France and with the Quebec. It is especially known for its spectacles of Cabaret S where it showed extravagant toilets.

Biography

Living a childhood of luxury in the South of France, the Krach of 1929 puts a term at this life of dream. Later, it becomes Danseur in a troop and learns various techniques related to the Spectacle: Make-up, Cascade and Figuration. During the Second world war, he escapes various raids. With the Release, it makes spectacles again. One notices it for the facility that it has to imitate women. It there will take taste and cultivate this talent.

Noticed by an owner of cabaret, it carries out there spectacles of which it becomes the head of poster. That will lead it to occur in North Africa and Italy. Noticed by the singer Mistinguett this time, it will become its lining in various spectacles. In 1951, it accompanies it in international round which will pass by Montreal, inter alia.

Of return in France, it assembles its own spectacle and is a sufficiently important success there to carry out a round solo in North America. When its Visa of work in the United States expires, it is established in Montreal in 1955. Its spectacle will be noticed by a TV host and an interview will be worth to him, which will create a passion for this one, in spite of the opprobe of the Clergé Catholique which governs morals in Quebec. Following its success in Quebec, it will make rounds a little everywhere with the Canada.

In the Years 1960, the mayor Jean Drapeau starts a crusade against the Prostitution in Montreal. The Policier S will make frequent interventions in the cabarets to put an end to this trade, which will bring the closing of several cabarets. The arrival of television will be also a big factor in their decline. When Expo 67 is born, the population is diverted for good of the cabarets.

In spite of that, in April 1965, it presents a spectacle to the Place of Arts, room especially reserved for the foreign high-speed motorboats of passage to Montreal. In 1968, it will be actor for the Feuilleton televised the Great minds, where it incarnates the Chevalier of Éon. It will make also Peinture. By afterwards, it will still make a round in the United States and will return to Montreal to present various spectacles to it. It will regularly run with the Théâtre of the Varieties of Montreal.

Being bisexual, it married twice with a woman, just like it had close relations with men. In the years 1960 and 1970, the newspapers with Potin S Québécois published regularly on its private life.

Summary discography

  • a woman not like the others… Guilda (1962)
  • Guilda… Vol. 2
  • It are well in my skin (1986)

Summary bibliography

  • 1980 : Guilda: it and me , Québécor. ISBN 2-89089-044-9

Catalog of films

See too

External bonds

  • Biography

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