Berthe Bovy
Berthe Marguerite Jeanne Bovy ( born January 6, 1887 in Liege, Liege, † 26 February 1977 Montgeron, department of Essonne, Ile -de -France, France) was a Belgian actress, best known for her numerous roles in comedies been.
Life
Berthe Bovy was the daughter of the journalist, poet and dramatist Théophile Bovy, who wrote the text to Le Chant des Wallon, the anthem of Wallonia. Through her father, she received vocal training and first minor roles in stage works.
After her studies at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles and 1906 at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris by Charles Le Bargy she joined in 1907 at the Comédie - Française, where she worked with Sarah Bernhardt. There she made her debut in Le Baiser, a comic opera by Adolphe Deslandres, where she played the role of a transvestite. Her breakthrough as an actress but she had only recently it cousine in La Bette by Honoré de Balzac.
Shortly after, she began her career as a film actress as she " d' Art Film " production starred in The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (1908 ) as Page. In the silent film La reine Margot (1910 ) by Camille de Morlhon she played Queen Margaret of Valois.
In 1921 she enjoyed great success during a tour with the play La Terre by André Antoine. At the Comédie- Française, she played with well-known actors such as Madeleine Renaud, Fernand Ledoux and Pierre Fresnay, whom she married in 1929 in his third marriage, while it was the second marriage for Fresnay.
An outstanding success they had in 1930 in La Voix humaine the drama of Jean Cocteau: In this piece she played a woman who is the last time talking on the phone to her lover, who left her to marry. In this role, her great talent was recognized very clearly and Cocteau himself with the words:
In the film Le Jouer (1938 ) by Louis Daquin and Gerhard Lamprecht, the French version of Lamprecht's film The Player (1938 ), she played on the side of Pierre Blanchar and Viviane Romance the much acclaimed role of ' Babushka '.
After the occupation of Belgium by the German Wehrmacht during the Western campaign in World War II In 1940, she refused in 1942 on a tour of Germany and left the Théâtre français. Nevertheless, they played at Boulevard theaters roles in plays like Arsenic et Vieilles Dentelles ( Arsenic and Old Lace ) by Joseph Kesselring, thereby founding their new image as a dignified elderly, although difficult lady.
Another much-publicized film appearance was in 1945, Madame Bonnet ' in Boule de suif by Guy de Maupassant, directed by Christian - Jaque next Micheline Presle and Louis Salou. In 1950, she celebrated a highly regarded stage comeback at the Maison de Molière in a role in the play La Folle Aventure. In addition, she gave a highly acclaimed tour with the based on the novel The Queen's Necklace by Alexandre Dumas resulting play of the same name. In L'affaire Obernaundorf. Enigmas de l' histoire she embodied, now honorary member of the Comédie- Française, the role of Agathe de Rambaud.
Your last major appearance was in 1967 as the octogenarian as " Madame Pernelle ' in Tartuffe by Molière.