French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 2. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
French actress and singer Mistinguett (1875-1956) captivated Paris with her risqué routines. She went on to become the most popular French entertainer of her time and the highest-paid female entertainer in the world. She appeared more than 60 times in the cinema.
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 54. Photo: Comoedia, Paris. Mistinguett.
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 58. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
Félix Huguenet (1858-1926) only stayed two years with the Comédie Française (1906-1908) but had a rich stage career between the 1880s and the 1920s. He played in four films, including Mademoiselle de La Seiglière (André Antoine, 1921).
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 109. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
Henri Vilbert (1870-1926) was a French stage actor and singer. Until the First World War, he was a popular singer at the Paris café-concerts, singing scabrous military songs which the working class liked, thus rivaling popular singers like Polin and Dranem. When the café-concert faded during the war he focused more on theatre and operetta. Vilbert is often confused with his nephew Henri Vilbert (1904-1997) who was a stage and film actor and played with Pagnol, Clouzot, Becker, and others.
French postcard in the Nos artistes dans leur loge series, no. 116. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
Probably, this is Lucien Fugère (1848-1935), who was an opera singer, bass voice, associated in particular with the roles of the French repertoire and Mozart. He enjoyed an exceptionally long career and was still singing at 85. His younger brother Paul Fugère(1851-1920) already withdrew from the stage in 1911, so it is rather unlikely this is him. As far as known, none of both brothers acted in a film.
French postcard in the Nos artistes dans leur loge series, no. 134. Photo: Comoedia.
Georges Dorival (1871–1939) was a French stage and screen actor of Norman origin, a painter, and an art collector.
French postcard in the Nos artistes dans leur loge series, no. 139. Photo: Comoedia.
Georges Colin (1880-1945) was a French actor, who appeared in nearly 40 silent and sound films between 1909 and 1945.
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 149. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
René Rocher (1890–1970) was a France stage actor and theater director. He was managing director of the Théâtre Antoine from 1928 to 1933, then the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier from 1935 to 1943, and the Théâtre de l'Odéon from 1940 to 1944. In the 1910s he acted in four films, a.o. Le coupable (André Antoine, 1917) and Blessée au coeur (director unknown, 1917).
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 155. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
French actor and director Jean-Étienne Pelisse aka Jean Debucourt (1894-1954) was a member of the Comédie-Française. He also acted in such silent classics as La Chute de la Maison Usher (1928) by Jean Epstein and such sound films as Mayerling (1936) by Anatole Litvak.
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 158. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
Émile Dehelly (1871-1969) was a French stage and screen actor, who was a sociétaire of the Comédie française (1903-1928) and had a prolific career at Le Film d’Art between 1909 and 1913. He is the father of film actor Jean Dehelly.
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 175. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
Aimée Tessandier (1851-1923) was a reputed French stage actress, who from 1908 till 1921 also had a career in French silent cinema.
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 176. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
Pretty performer Jane Danjou is known for a few French silent films. She played small parts in the shorts L'auberge du tohu-bohu/The Inn of Tohu-Bohu (Georges Denola, 1912) and C'est pour les orphelins/For the Children (Louis Feuillade, 1916) with Musidora. She played Suzanne Grandais's friend in Midinettes/ (René Hervil, Louis Mercanton, 1917), and the tile role in Zon (Robert Boudrioz, 1920) opposite Jacques de Féraudy.
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 192. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
Louise Silvain (1874-1930) entered the Comédie Française in 1901, became sociétaire in 1910 and sociétaire honoraire in 1925. She was married to Eugène Silvain, aka Sylvain. She acted in the films Une scène d'Andromaque à la Comédie Française (dir. unknown, 1909) and Molière, sa vie, son oeuvre (Jacques de Féraudy, 1922).
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 207. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
French actress Thérèse Dorny (1891-1976) got great success with 'L'École des cocottes', which she performed three times in 1918, 1920, and 1923. At the start of sound cinema in France, she had a rich career in film acting, in particular in comedies such as Cognasse (Louis Mercanton, 1932).
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 231. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
French actor Henry Mayer ( 1857-1941) was a member of the Comédie-Française. Mayer debuted at Pathé Frères as the cruel Roman emperor Caligula in L'Étoile du génie (Ferdinand Zecca, René Leprince, 1913) starring Gabriel Signoret as a composer and Stacia Napierkowska as his muse. Mayer then had the lead in two SCAGL/ Pathé productions by Georges Monca and several more films followed.
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 234. Photo: Comoedia, Paris. The outfit of Barjac may refer to one of her Racine plays on Antiquity, such as 'Iphigénie' (1920, 1924), 'Phèdre' (1920, 1925), or 'Andromaque' (1922, 1923).
Madeleine Barjac (1883-1974) was a French actress at the beginning of the 20th century. Between 1918 and 1938, she acted at the Comédie-Française, first often in plays by Racine, and from the early 1930s onward also in more modern dramas. Barjac's film career was modest. In 1910 she debuted at Pathé Frères and in the following years, she also played in silent shorts for Eclipse and Gaumont.
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 240. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
Raphaël Duflos (1858-1946) was a French famous Comédie-Française stage actor, who also acted in a handful of French silent films.
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 245. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
Béatrix Dussane (1888-1969) was a French stage actress of the Comédie-Française and a teacher at the Conservatoire d'Art dramatique de Paris. She only acted in one film: Le Franciscain de Bourges (Claude Autant-Lara, 1968) in which she had the female lead opposite Hardy Kruger in the title role. Dussane was 80 at the time.
French postcard in the Nos artistes dans leur loge series, no. 246. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
Roseraie or Mademoiselle Roseraie (?-?) was an actress of the Comédie Française, where she was 'pensionnaire' between 1918 and 1925. There she was Elise in 'Esther' (1919), Zaïre in 'Bajazet' (1920), Europe in 'Vautrin' (1922), etc. On screen, she acted in Molière, sa vie, son oeuvre (Jacques de Féraudy, 1922), in which the whole troupe of the Comédie Française collaborated. Before that, she played a small, uncredited part as a condemned woman in Albert Capellani's period drama Le chevalier de Maison-Rouge (1914), an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas and evolving during the French Terror era. As "Mademoiselle Roseraie", she acted in the Spanish production Boy (Benito Perojo, 1926), playing a countess whose lavish lifestyle ruins the protagonist, played by Juan de Orduña. In the sound era, Roseraie had a minor part in Jacques Feyder's Pension Mimosas (1935), starring Françoise Rosay.
French postcard in the Nos artistes dans leur loge series, no. 264. Photo: Comoedia.
Marthe Chenal (1881-1947) was a French opera soprano active between 1905 and 1923. Although she sang with several opera companies in France and around the world, her career was mainly centered at the Palais Garnier and the Opéra-Comique in Paris. She particularly excelled in works by Jules Massenet and Camille Erlanger. Chenal was admired for her excellent singing but also for her spectacular dramatic prowess, some critics comparing her to the actress Sarah Bernhardt. A remarkable and attractive woman, Chenal was dubbed by the international press as "the most beautiful woman in Paris". She was noted for her interpretation of La Marseillaise. Her voice is preserved on a number of recordings made with Pathé in 1915. As far as known, she never acted in films.
French postcard in the Nos artistes dans leur loge series, no. 267. Photo: Comoedia.
French actor Marcel Vibert (1883-1959) worked primarily in the French film industry, e.g. in Les trois mousquetaires (1912-1913), Les opprimés (1923), Le bossu (1925), Nitchevo (1926), and the first French sound film Les trois masques (1929), but in the late 1920s he also appeared in several British silent films including Moulin Rouge (1928) and Champagne (1928), as well as in Rex Ingram's American film The Garden of Allah (1927).
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 279. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
Roger Coutant (?-?) acted in only three films. In 1919 he played the male lead opposite Renée Sylvaire in L'heureuse vocation (Georges Laîné, 1919). Coutant acted in the early sound film Serments (Henri Fescourt, 1931). Coutant's last film role was a small part in Cartouche (Jacques Daroy, 1934).
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 283. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
Henri Jullien (1879-1961) was a French stage and screen actor. In 1912, he started to act in a series of short films at Gaumont. While absent from the sets during the First World War, he acted in three films in the early 1920s, including Pour don Carlos (1920) starring Musidora.
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 286. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
André Baugé (1893-1966) was a French baritone, active in opera and operetta. He also appeared in films in the 1930s.
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 289. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
Fernand Rivers (1879-1960) was a French actor, screenwriter, film producer, and director. In 1935, he produced and supervised the first two feature films directed by Sacha Guitry. Rivers pursued a career as a director until 1950.
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 295. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
Armand Morins aka Morins made his film debut in 1912 repeating his stage role of the clumsy and naive servant Joseph Turlot in the first film adaptation of the military comedy Tire-au-flanc. Morins incidentally returned to the film sets in both the silent as the sound eras.
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 296. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
Lucien Rozenberg was a French actor, screenwriter, director, and stage director. During the First World War, he began a series of humorous short films for Pathé Frères. Rozenberg played by himself, using simply his first name as character name: "Lucien". He was the star and often the director too, although Édouard-Émile Violet and Paul Garbagni also directed several Lucien farces. By mid-1919, Rozenberg put an end to his film career and returned to the theatre. After French sound cinema had set in, he returned to the film sets occasionally.
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 316. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
Marguerite Deval (1866-1955) was a French stage and screen actress, and operetta singer. While she only acted in two silent films in the early 1910s, Deval had a rich career in French sound cinema of the 1930s and 1940s.
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 327. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
Beautiful Yvette Andréyor (1891 –1962) was a French actress of the silent era. Her two most famous films were Louis Feuillades’ serials Fantômas (1913) and Judex (1916). She appeared in 108 films between 1910 and 1962.
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