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person_profile-Elvira Popescu

Elvira Popescu Died at age: 99

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Elvira Popescu

Date of Birth:

May 10, 1894

Country of birth:

Romania

Died:

Dec 11, 1993

Biography of

Elvira Popescu

    Elvira Popescu (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.

    Born in Bucharest, Popescu studied drama at the Music and Drama Conservatory in her native city, under the guidance of Constantin Nottara and Aristizza Romanescu. In 1911 Grigore Brezeanu 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. Popesco made her debut at the National Theatre Bucharest at age 16. In 1912, she played herself in the movie Independența României, directed by Aristide Demetriade.

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

    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).

    Shortly after her debut in 1910, Popescu married comedian Aurel Athanasescu and they had a daughter named Tatiana. After a few years, she divorced, and married Ion Manolescu-Strunga, Minister of Industry and Commerce (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).

    She died in Paris at age 99, and was interred at Père Lachaise Cemetery.

    Source: Article "Elvira Popescu" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Elvira Popescu

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Filmography of

Elvira Popescu

Found 29 Movies in total

The Battle of Austerlitz

Lætitia Bonaparte ( Actor )

... 1960

Purple Noon

Mrs. Popova ( Actor )

... 1960

Fou d'amour

Arabella ( Actor )

... 1943

Frédérica

Frédérica ( Actor )

... 1942

The Blue Veil

Mona Lorenza ( Actor )

... 1942

Mademoiselle Swing

Sofia de Vinci ( Actor )

... 1942

... 1942

... 1941

Parade in 7 Nights

Madame Fanny ( Actor )

... 1941

Sacred Woods

Francine Margerie ( Actor )

... 1939

Four Flights to Love

Sonia Vorochine ( Actor )

... 1939

Nine Bachelors

Comtesse Stacia Batchefskaïa ( Actor )

... 1939

The Fatted Calf

Princess Dorothée ( Actor )

... 1939

Behind the Facade

Madame Rameau ( Actor )

... 1939

Deputy Eusèbe

Mariska ( Actor )

... 1939

Mon curé chez les riches

Lisette Cousinet ( Actor )

... 1938

Bargekeepers Daughter

The Queen of Silistrie ( Actor )

... 1938

... 1938

... 1937

The Green Dress

La duchesse de Maulévrier ( Actor )

... 1937

Le Club des Aristocrates

La comtesse Irène Waldapowska ( Actor )

... 1937

The House Across the Street

Madame Anna ( Actor )

... 1937

The Man of the Day

Mona Thalia ( Actor )

... 1937

The King

Thérèse Marnix ( Actor )

... 1936

... 1936

... 1935

Sa meilleure cliente

Edwige ( Actor )

... 1932

My Cousin From Warsaw

Sonia Varilovna ( Actor )

... 1931

The stranger

Dora Clarkson ( Actor )

... 1931