Elvira Popescu

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Elvira Popescu

Acting May 10, 1894

Bucarest, Romania

Elvira Popescu (10 May 1894 – 11 December 1993) was a Romanian-French stage and film actress and theatre director. During the 1930s and 1940s, she starred in a number of French co…

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Purple Noon

Purple Noon

7.6 1960 Movie
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

6.0 1975 TV Show
Austerlitz

Austerlitz

6.6 1960 Movie
Four Flights to Love

Four Flights to Love

6.4 1939 Movie
La Mamma

La Mamma

1966 Movie
En direct de...

En direct de...

1956 TV Show
Nine Bachelors

Nine Bachelors

6.5 1939 Movie
The Fatted Calf

The Fatted Calf

6.7 1939 Movie
Tricoche and Cacolet

Tricoche and Cacolet

7.7 1938 Movie
The stranger

The stranger

10.0 1931 Movie
The Blue Veil

The Blue Veil

5.9 1942 Movie
Behind the Facade

Behind the Facade

7.7 1939 Movie

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Elvira Popescu (10 May 1894 – 11 December 1993) was a Romanian-French stage and film actress and theatre director. During the 1930s and 1940s, she starred in a number of French comedy films. Born in Bucharest, Popescu studied drama at the Music and Drama Conservatory in her native city, under the guidance of Constantin Nottara and Aristizza Romanescu. In 1911 Grigore Brezeanu was making the first Romanian films to deal with fiction. He employed Popesco as well as other leading actors like Nottara and Romanescu. The first two films were called "Fatal Love" and "Spin a Yarn". No copies are known of these films. Popesco made her debut at the National Theatre Bucharest at age 16. In 1912, she played herself in the movie Independența României, directed by Aristide Demetriade. In 1919 she became artistic director of the Excelsior Theatre. In 1921, Popescu started Teatrul Mic, which she managed in parallel with the Excelsior. In 1923, she starred in the movie Ţigăncuşa de la iatac, directed by Alfred Halm. At the urging of Louis Verneuil, the French playwright, Popescu moved in 1924 to Paris. Under Verneuil's direction, she played the leading role in Ma Cousine de Varsovie, at the Théâtre Michel (1923). She also played in Tovaritch (1933), La Machine infernale (1954), Nina (1949), and La Mamma (1957). Later on, she was director of Théâtre de Paris (1956–1965), and Théâtre Marigny (1965–1978).[5] At age 84, she played again in La Mamma. Elvira Popescu also played in movies, such as La Présidente (Fernand Rivers, 1938), Tricoche et Cacolet (Pierre Colombier, 1938), Ils étaient neuf célibataires (Sacha Guitry, 1939), Paradis perdu (Abel Gance, 1940), Austerlitz (Abel Gance, 1960),[6] and Purple Noon (René Clément, 1960). Shortly after her debut in 1910, Popescu married comedian Aurel Athanasescu and they had a daughter named Tatiana. After a few years, she divorced, and married Ion Manolescu-Strunga, Minister of Industry and Commerce (who was to die in Sighet prison in the 1950s). Her third husband was Count Maximilien Sébastien Foy (born in Paris on 17 April 1900, died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 11 November 1967). She died in Paris at age 99, and was interred at Père Lachaise Cemetery. Source: Article "Elvira Popescu" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 1975
    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    TV show Self

  2. 1972
    La Voyante

    Movie Karma, la voyante

  3. 1966
    La Mamma

    Movie Rosaria

  4. 1960
    Austerlitz

    Movie Lætitia Bonaparte

  5. 1960
    Purple Noon

    Movie Mrs. Popova

  6. 1956
    En direct de...

    TV show self

  7. 1943
    Fou d'amour

    Movie Arabella

  8. 1942
    The Blue Veil

    Movie Mona Lorenza

  9. 1942
    Frédérica

    Movie Frédérica

  10. 1942
    Mademoiselle Swing

    Movie Sofia de Vinci

  11. 1942
    L'âge d'or

    Movie Véra Termutzki

  12. 1941
    Le Valet maître

    Movie

  13. 1941
    Parade in 7 Nights

    Movie Madame Fanny

  14. 1940
    The Mondesir Heir

    Movie Erika, l'aventurière

  15. 1939
    Sacred Woods

    Movie Francine Margerie

  16. 1939
    Four Flights to Love

    Movie Sonia Vorochine

More credits
  1. 1939
    Nine Bachelors

    Movie Countess Stacia Batchefskaïa

  2. 1939
    The Fatted Calf

    Movie Princess Dorothée

  3. 1939
    Behind the Facade

    Movie Mrs. Rameau, wife of an industrialist and mistress of Alfredo

  4. 1939
    Deputy Eusèbe

    Movie Mariska

  5. 1938
    Mon curé chez les riches

    Movie Lisette Cousinet

  6. 1938
    Bargekeepers Daughter

    Movie The Queen of Silistrie

  7. 1938
    Tricoche and Cacolet

    Movie Bernardine Van der Pouf

  8. 1938
    La Présidente

    Movie Vérotcha

  9. 1937
    In Venice, One Night

    Movie Nadia Mortal

  10. 1937
    The Green Dress

    Movie La duchesse de Maulévrier

  11. 1937
    Le Club des Aristocrates

    Movie La comtesse Irène Waldapowska

  12. 1937
    The House Across the Street

    Movie Mme Anna

  13. 1937
    The Man of the Day

    Movie Mona Thalia

  14. 1936
    The King

    Movie Thérèse Marnix

  15. 1936
    L'Amant de madame Vidal

    Movie

  16. 1935
    Dora Nelson

    Movie Dora Nelson / Suzanne Verdier

  17. 1934
    Une femme chipée

    Movie Hélène Larsonnier

  18. 1932
    Sa meilleure cliente

    Movie Edwige

  19. 1931
    My Cousin From Warsaw

    Movie Sonia Varilovna

  20. 1931
    The stranger

    Movie Dora Clarkson

  21. 1923
    Tigancusa de la iatac

    Movie Maria Tortusanu - Vasil's fiancée