Elvira Popescu
Age: 99 | From: Bucarest, Romania
Person Details
Birthday: 1894-05-10 18:17:54
Death: 1993-12-11 18:17:54
Aliases: Elvire Popescu
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Bucarest, Romania
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Movie Involvements: 11
TV Involvements: 1
Most Famous Work
Biography
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 Conservatorul de Artă Dramatică, 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 Constantin Nottara and Aristizza 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 Independenţa 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; they had a daughter, 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.
Most Famous Work
Purple Noon
(1960) Mrs. Popova
The Battle of Austerlitz
(1960) Lætitia Bonaparte
En direct de...
(1956) self
Deputy Eusèbe
(1939) Mariska
Paradis perdu
(1939) Sonia Vorochine
The House Across the Street
(1937) Madame Anna
Tigancusa de la iatac
(1923) Maria Tortusanu - Vasil's fiancée
The Blue Veil
(1942) Mona LorenzaActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | N/A | |
| 1975 | Self | |
| 1972 | Karma, la voyante | |
| 1966 | Rosaria | |
| 1960 | Lætitia Bonaparte | |
| Mrs. Popova | ||
| 1956 | self | |
| 1943 | Arabella | |
| 1942 | Mona Lorenza | |
| Frédérica | ||
| Sofia de Vinci | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1941 | N/A | |
| Madame Fanny | ||
| 1940 | Erika, l'aventurière | |
| 1939 | Francine Margerie | |
| Sonia Vorochine | ||
| Countess Stacia Batchefskaïa | ||
| Princess Dorothée | ||
| Mrs. Rameau, wife of an industrialist and mistress of Alfredo | ||
| Mariska | ||
| 1938 | Lisette Cousinet | |
| The Queen of Silistrie | ||
| Bernardine Van der Pouf | ||
| Vérotcha | ||
| 1937 | Nadia Mortal | |
| La duchesse de Maulévrier | ||
| La comtesse Irène Waldapowska | ||
| Madame Anna | ||
| Mona Thalia | ||
| 1936 | Thérèse Marnix | |
| N/A | ||
| 1935 | Dora Nelson / Suzanne Verdier | |
| 1934 | Hélène Larsonnier | |
| 1932 | Edwige | |
| 1931 | Sonia Varilovna | |
| Dora Clarkson | ||
| 1923 | Maria Tortusanu - Vasil's fiancée | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
