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Gabrielle Dorziat

French actress (1880–1979)

Summary

French actress (1880–1979)

Field	Value
name	Gabrielle Dorziat
image	Gabrielle Dorziat.jpg
birthname	Gabrielle Sigrist Moppert
birth_date
birth_place	Épernay, France
death_date
death_place	Biarritz, France
yearsactive	1898–1971
spouse	Count Michel de Zogheb (1925–1964)

Gabrielle Dorziat (25 January 1880 – 30 November 1979) was a French stage and film actress. Dorziat was a fashion trend setter in Paris and helped popularize the designs of Coco Chanel. The Théâtre Gabrielle-Dorziat in Épernay, France is named for her.

Biography

She was born in 1880. Dorziat made her stage début in 1898 at the Royal Park Theatre in Brussels. She moved to Paris and appeared in Alfred Capus' La Bourse ou la vie (1900), but it was her performance as Thérèse Herbault in Chaîne anglaise (1906) that brought her to public attention. She became known for her off-stage life as well, becoming romantically involved with actors Lucien Guitry and Louis Jouvet. She had close friendships with Jean Cocteau, Jean Giraudoux, Coco Chanel, Paul Bourget and Henri Bernstein. During World War I Dorziat left France to tour the United States where she raised money for war refugees. After the war she toured Canada, South America and the rest of Europe.

In 1921 Dorziat appeared in her first film L'Infante à la rose. She went on to play in over sixty films including Mayerling, Les Parents terribles and Manon. In 1925, she married Count Michel de Zogheb, a friend of King Fuad I of Egypt. She published her memoirs Côté cour, côté jardin in 1968.

She died in 1979.

Partial filmography

L'Infante à la rose (1923) - Olive de Romanin
Mayerling (1936) - L'impératrice Élisabeth
Samson (1936) - La Marquise d'Andeline
Forty Little Mothers (1936) - Mme Granval, La directrice
Southern Mail (1937) - La mère
L'amour veille (1937) - Madame de Juvigny
Woman of Malacca (1937) - Lady Patricia Brandmore
The Lie of Nina Petrovna (1937) - Baroness Engern
Êtes-vous jalouse? (1938) - Gabrielle Brunois
Mollenard (1938) - Mme. Mollenard
Monsieur Breloque Has Disappeared (1938) - La baronne Granger
Le drame de Shanghaï (1938) - La directrice du collège
Mother Love (1938) - Adrienne
A Foolish Maiden (1938) - La mère de Gisèle
Behind the Facade (1939) - Madame Bernier
The End of the Day (1939) - Madame Chabert
The Man Who Seeks the Truth (1940) - Adrienne
False Alarm (1940) - Madame Ancelot
Sarajevo (1940) - L'archiduchesse Marie-Thérèse (et)
Premier rendez-vous (1941) - La directrice de l'orphelinat
The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock (1942) - Mademoiselle Lebeau
Soyez les bienvenus (1942) - Madame Boisleroi
L'appel du bled (1942) - Madame Darbois
Patricia (1942) - Mademoiselle Pressac - Tante Laurie
The Wolf of the Malveneurs (1943) - Magda
Strange Inheritance (1943) - Gérardine Éloi
The Phantom Baron (1943) - La comtesse de Saint-Helie
Échec au roy (1945) - Madame de Maintenon
Paris Frills (1945) - Solange
The Angel They Gave Me (1946) - La comtesse de Cébrat
Goodbye Darling (1946) - Constance
Désarroi (1947) - Madame Meillan
Mirror (1947) - Madame Puc
Monsieur Vincent (1947) - La présidente Groussault
Ruy Blas (1948) - La duchesse d'Albuquerque
Une grande fille toute simple (1948) - Tante Edmée
Les Parents terribles (1948) - Tante Léo
Manon (1949) - Mme Agnès
Tomorrow Is Too Late (1950) - La direttrice
Ballerina (1950) - Aunt
Born of Unknown Father (1950) - Mme. Mussot
La Vérité sur Bébé Donge (1952) - Madame D'Ortemont
So Little Time (1952) - Madame de Malvines
Judgement of God (1952) - La margrave Josépha
Son of the Hunchback (1952) - Contessa Lagardere
Little Boy Lost (1953) - Mother Superior
Traviata '53 (1953) - Signora Zoe
Act of Love (1953, aka Un acte d'amour) - Adèle Lacaud
Madame du Barry (1954) - La Gourdan
Le fil à la patte (1954) - La baronne Du Verger - la mère de Viviane
The Two Orphans (1954) - La Frochard
Nagana (1955) - Mme Larguillière
Pity for the Vamps (1956) - Éléonore Davis
Mitsou (1956) - La baronne
Les Espions (1957) - Madame Andrée - l'infirmière
Resurrection (1958) - Kitajewa
Polikuschka (1958) - Herrin
Drôles de phénomènes (1959) - Madame Marcevault
Magnificent Sinner (1959) - La directrice de l'institute Smolny
Climats (1962) - Mme Cheverny, la mère d'Isabelle
Un singe en hiver (1962) - Victoria
Gigot (1962) - Madame Brigitte
Germinal (1963) - La grand-mère de Catherine
Monsieur (1964) - La belle-mère
Cyrano and d'Artagnan (1964) - Françoise de Mauvières
Thomas the Impostor (1965) - La cartomancienne
Un mari à prix fixe (1965) - Mme Reinhoff, mère

Theatre

Chaîne anglaise by Camille Oudinot and Abel Hermant, Théâtre du Vaudeville (1906)
Les Jacobines by Abel Hermant, Théâtre du Vaudeville (1907)
Chérubin by Francis de Croisset, Théâtre Fémina (1908)
La Sonate à Kreutzer by Fernand Nozière and Alfred Savoir (1910)
Bel Ami (1912)
Les Éclaireuses by Maurice Donnay, Comédie Marigny (1913)
L'Épervier by Francis de Croisset, Théâtre de l'Ambigu (1914)
Un homme en habit by André Picard and Yves Mirande, Théâtre des Variétés (1920)
Comédienne by Jacques Bousquet, Paul Armont, Théâtre des Nouveautés (1921)
Trois et une by Denys Amiel, Théâtre Saint-Georges (1932)
Espoir by Henry Bernstein, Théâtre du Gymnase, with Claude Dauphin, Victor Francen and Renée Devillers, (1934)
La vie est si courte by Léopold Marchand, Théâtre Pigalle (1936)
Électre by Jean Giraudoux, Théâtre de l'Athénée (1937)
Les Parents terribles by Jean Cocteau, Théâtre des Ambassadeurs (1938)
La Machine à écrire by Jean Cocteau (1941)
Le Dîner de famille by Jean Bernard-Luc, Théâtre de la Michodière (1944)

References

"BFI | Film & TV Database | DORZIAT, Gabrielle".
''France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History'' by Bill Marshall, Cristina Johnston (382-3) {{ISBN. 1-85109-411-3

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