Marcelle Praince
French actress (1882–1969)
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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.[1][2] As a young woman she was considered a fashionable stage beauty.[3][4] 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.[5]
Praince performed in French productions in London, including the revue Plantons les capucines (1914).[1][6] 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.[7] She was in a French adaptation of Harvey at the Theatre Antoine in 1950.[8]
Selected filmography
- Should We Wed Them? (1932)
- The Red Robe (1933)
- Sapho (1934)
- The Blue Mouse (1936)
- La Garçonne (1936)
- Parisian Life (1936)
- School for Journalists (1936)
- The Man of the Hour (1937)
- A Picnic on the Grass (1937)
- White Cargo (1937)
- Entence Cordiale (1939)
- The Fatted Calf (1939)
- The Duraton Family (1939)
- Place de la Concorde (1939)
- The Snow on the Footsteps (1942)
- Florence Is Crazy (1944)[9]
- A Cage of Nightingales (1945)[10][9]
- Father Goriot (1945)
- Captain Blomet (1947)
- The Three Cousins (1947)
- The Mysterious Monsieur Sylvain (1947)
- Dilemma of Two Angels (1948)
- The Cupid Club (1949)
- Doctor Laennec (1949)
- The Girl from Maxim's (1950)
- Darling Caroline (1951)
- Under the Sky of Paris (1951)[11]
- Two Pennies Worth of Violets (1951)
- Matrimonial Agency (1952)
- Madame du Barry (1954)
- L'Air de Paris (1954)[12]
- Every Day Has Its Secret (1958)
