Ghislaine Dommanget
Ghyslaine Marie Françoise Dommanget ( born October 13, 1900 in Reims, † April 30, 1991 in Neuilly -sur- Seine) was a French actress and Princess of Monaco.
Life
She was the daughter of Robert Joseph Dommanget (1867-1957) and his wife Marie -Louise Meunier (1874-1960) was born. On July 17, 1923, she married in Paris for almost forty years older than Paul Diey ( 1863-1931 ). After his death, she had a love affair with the older twenty years André Brulé (1879-1953), with whom she had a son, Jean -Gabriel ( b. 1934 ).
Career as an actress
She spoke before Sarah Bernhardt who gave her their debutant role at the Théâtre Déjazet in " Tire au flanc ". She performed only by their first name in the modern spelling " Ghislaine ", this remained henceforth her stage name.
In 1923 she took part in the funeral of Sarah Bernhardt. She threw a small ring in the grave and vowed that from now on only to play in comedies, which they einhielt.
In the movies she appeared in " La 13e enquête de Grey" (1937 ) and " La 2e dalle " ( 1941). Addition to working on feature films, she worked at the Comédie- Française in Paris, on January 17, 1942 until they hit the Monegasque Prince Louis II in a Tournée in the Principality of Monaco. At a dinner at the Princely Palace of the Prince noticed her and wrote to her. "I knew this date that you would be my wife "
Princess of Monaco
On July 25, 1946, four years after the first meeting, she married Louis II of Monaco. Like her two men before that was also the prince significantly older than her. In the marriage he was already 76 years old. The old prince died just three years after the marriage ceremony on 9 May 1949.
Prince widow
After the death of her husband she led a process with the new Prince Rainier III. to the assets of the deceased prince. Rainier and his sister Antoinette won the process. In 1950, she returned to the stage, but she was not allowed to use their princely name, and was in " Madame Avril " (1958), ' L' Aiglon " (1959) and " Fleur de petit pois "(1960) to see.
Then she moved to Paris and wrote there her memoirs, under the title " ' princesse Sois! ' dit- il, " published as a book, and she devoted Princess Grace.
She died on 30 April 1991 in the Paris suburb of Neuilly Nobel -sur-Seine and was buried in her wedding dress on the Passy Cemetery in Paris.
Weblink
- Ghislaine Dommanget in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- Actor
- Princess (Monaco)
- House Grimaldi
- Born 1900
- Died in 1991
- Woman