29 October 2013

Juana Borguèse

Very little is known about Juana Borguèse who played the evil Baronne d'Apremont in the French silent serial La nouvelle Mission de Judex/The New Mission of Judex (1917-1918).

Juana Borguèse in La nouvelle mission de Judex
French postcard by Coquemer Gravures, Paris. Photo: Félix / Gaumont. Still for La nouvelle mission de Judex (1917-1918).

Andrew Brunelle in La nouvelle mission de Judex
Andrew Brunelle. French postcard by Coquemer Gravures, Paris. Photo: Gerschel / Gaumont. Still for La nouvelle Mission de Judex (1917-1918).

Creating havoc in tandem


Was Juana Borguèse a pseudonym? We don't know, nor where and when she was born.

Together with another mysterious and dangerous woman, Gaby (Cyprien Giles), Borguèse's Baronne 'creates havoc in tandem', as Vicki Calahan writes in Zones of Anxiety: Movement, Musidora, and the Crime Serials of Louis Feuillade.

Baronne d'Apremont is the accomplice of the evil Dr. Howey (Andrew Brunelle) in La nouvelle mission de Judex/The New Mission of Judex (Louis Feuillade, 1917-1918).

She has hypnotic powers - mark the eyes on the card - enabling her to force the innocent to do things against their will.

According to Cineressources, the site of the Cinémathèque française, she also played an uncredited part in the earlier film Judex (Louis Feuillade, 1916) in which Musidora played the scheming villain Diana Monti. Who can tell us more about Juana Borguèse?

La nouvelle mission de Judex
Spanish collector's card by Chocolate Pi, Barcelona, card 33 of 54. Photo: Gaumont. Juana Borguèse as the Baronne d'Apremont in La Nouvelle Mission de Judex/The New Mission of Judex (Louis Feuillade, 1917-1918).

La nouvelle mission de Judex
Spanish collectors card by Chocolate Pi, Barcelona, card 44 of 54. Photo: Gaumont. Judex (René Cresté) overhears a phone call by the evil Baronne d'Apremont (Juana Borguèse) in La Nouvelle Mission de Judex/The New Mission of Judex (Louis Feuillade, 1917-1918).

La nouvelle mission de Judex (1917)
Spanish collector's card by Chocolate Pi, Barcelona, card 50 of 54. Photo: Gaumont. Left, Juana Borguèse as the Baronne d'Apremont in La Nouvelle mMssion de Judex/The New Mission of Judex (Louis Feuillade, 1917-1918).

Sources: Vicki Callahan (Zones of Anxiety: Movement, Musidora and the Crime Serials of Louis Feuillade), Cineressources and IMDb.

This post was last updated on 13 July 2023.

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