Marcelle Praince

Marcelle Praince
A portrait of Marcelle Praince, wearing a large hat and drop earrings
Marcelle Praince, by Reutlinger
Born
Célestine Cardi

(1882-06-09)9 June 1882
Vigeois, Corrèze, France
Died26 October 1969(1969-10-26) (aged 87)
Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, France
OccupationActress

Marcelle Praince (9 June 1882 – 26 October 1969) was a French actress.

Praince was born Célestine Cardi in Vigeois, Corrèze, France and died in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines.

Praince acted in dozens of films and appeared in stage productions. As a young woman she was considered a fashionable stage beauty. During World War I, she was a member of the French Army Theater (Theatre aux Armes), a troupe of performers who entertained French soldiers in villages close to the front; her "beauty has cheered many a man about to die, or brought him back from the clutch of death", wrote Maude Radford Warren, a Canadian reporter, in 1917.

Praince performed in French productions in London, including the revue Plantons les capucines (1914). In 1921 she appeared in three Louis Verneuil plays on the London stage: Le traité d'Auteuil, L'honneur de Letournel, and La jeune fille au bain. She was in a French adaptation of Harvey at the Theatre Antoine in 1950.

Marcelle Praince modeling a gown, from a 1912 publication
Marcelle Praince modeling a gown, from a 1912 publication

Selected filmography

References

  1. 1 2 "An Amusing Interlude from the Revue, 'Plantons les Capucines'". The Tatler. 52: 274. 27 May 1914.
  2. ↑ Donnay, Maurice (1919). Lysistrata: Comedy in Four Acts (in French). E. Fasquelle.
  3. ↑ "Midsummer Fashion Fancies". The Theatre. 16 (137): xvi. July 1912.
  4. ↑ Best, Kate Nelson (9 February 2017). The History of Fashion Journalism. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4742-8517-9.
  5. ↑ Warren, Maude Radford (28 July 1917). "Barnstorming for the Poilus". The Saturday Evening Post. 190: 24.
  6. ↑ Wearing, J. P. (2013). The London Stage 1910-1919: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Scarecrow Press. p. 266. ISBN 978-0-8108-9300-9.
  7. ↑ Wearing, J. P. (2014). The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 103–107. ISBN 978-0-8108-9302-3.
  8. ↑ "Foreign Opening: Harvey". Billboard. 25 November 1950. p. 49.
  9. 1 2 Moules, Patrick (2020). The 9.5mm Vintage Film Encyclopaedia. Troubador Publishing Ltd. pp. 89, 165. ISBN 978-1-83859-269-1.
  10. ↑ Paietta, Ann C. (18 November 2014). Teachers in the Movies: A Filmography of Depictions of Grade School, Preschool and Day Care Educators, 1890s to the Present. McFarland. pp. 120–121. ISBN 978-1-4766-2034-3.
  11. ↑ Daniel, Blum. Screen World Vol. 4 1953. Biblo & Tannen Publishers. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-8196-0259-6.
  12. ↑ Turk, Edward Baron (1989). Child of Paradise: Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema. Harvard University Press. p. 441. ISBN 978-0-674-11460-9.