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]

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

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ a b "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: 49. 25 November 1950.
  9. ^ a b 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.


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