Anne-Marie Carrière

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Anne-Marie Carrière (born January 16, 1925 in Paris , † December 29, 2006 in Nanterre , Hauts-de-Seine ; actually Anne-Marie Alice Louise Blanquart ) was a French actress and singer .

Life

Anne-Marie Carrière was born as Anne-Marie Blanquart in Paris in 1925 . After abandoning her law studies, she worked in a tax office before deciding on a career as an actress and singer. Carrière gained great popularity in the 1960s for her numerous light, comedic roles in cabaret , which she took to the Théâtre de Dix-Heures and the Théâtre des Deux-ânes, among others, and to a member of the theater group “Noctambules” founded in 1950 by Henri-Jacques Huet Made. At the same time, she is considered the first female " chansonnier " in French cabaret. She sporadically worked in the theater ( J'y suis, j'y reste , 1973; Madame ... pas dame , 1984) and followed engagements in radio ( l'Humour au féminin , 1970) and film ( Alles in Butter , 1963) , while she was regularly featured on French television with roles in Pierre Sabbagh's Au théâtre ce soir . Her career ended in the 1980s. In 1997 she returned to the Théâtre des Deux-ânes for the two revues L'Elysée clé en main and Le cercle des PS disparus .

Carrière died in 2006 at the age of 81 in the Nanterre hospital. The French daily Le Figaro titled the artist in its obituary as "pionnière du rire" (Eng .: "pioneer of laughter" ), while Jacques Maillot, then director of the Théâtre des Deux-ânes, described her as the first female comedian to do the Upheld the colors of feminism in the theater and paved the way for artists such as Sylvie Joly , Anne Roumanoff and Muriel Robin .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1956: Baratin
  • 1963: The fat king Dagobert ( Le Bon roi Dagobert )
  • 1963: Everything in butter ( La Cuisine au beurre )
  • 1966: Trois enfants ... dans le désordre
  • 1966–1978: Au théâtre ce soir (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1967: Deux romains en Gaule (TV)

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Individual evidence

  1. a b cf. Heliot, Armelle: Anne-Marie Carrière, pionnière du rire . In: Le Figaro, December 30, 2006, N ° 19412, Le carnet du jour p. 13
  2. cf. Anne-Marie Carrière, première femme humoriste et chansonnière ", selon Jacques Maillot . Agence France-Presse , December 29, 2006, 12:17 PM GMT