Barbara Laage

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Barbara Laage (born July 30, 1920 in Menthon-Saint-Bernard , Haute-Savoie ; † May 21, 1988 in Deauville , Calvados ; aka Claire Colombat ) was a French actress .

life and work

Barbara Laage made her theater debut in 1942 and also performed with great success in cabaret. In 1946 she went to the USA, because the role of the Lady of Shanghai was actually written for her, but then Orson Welles gave the role to his then companion Rita Hayworth . Her first leading role was Eugenia Taris alongside Van Heflin in BF's Daughter (1948) and became famous as Lizzie McKay in the film adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Honorable Whore (1952) Mainly at home in American cinema (alongside Kirk Douglas in Anatole Litvaks Ein Act of love or as Gene Kelly's partner in The Happy Road ), she plays in France a. a. with Alex Joffé ( cry of conscience ). In the 60s, among others, in Martin Ritt's Paris Blues alongside Paul Newman and in two German films: Oriental Nights with Karl Lieffen and Georg Jacoby's Bombs on Monte Carlo with Eddie Constantine and Gunnar Möller .

In 1970 she was involved in a legendary scene in François Truffaut's Tisch und Bett , which Woody Allen later adapted for his film Der Stadtneurotiker : While Claude Jade was talking to her neighbor on the staircase about her marriage to Jean-Pierre Léaud , he was doing it in the café at the same time with his office colleague Barbara Laage, with the sound and image of the conversations overlapping in an ironic context.

Two supporting roles followed in the 1970s: in Dangerous Knowledge with Jean-Louis Trintignant and in private performance with Jane Birkin . Barbara Laage played her last role in Guy Jorré's Une place forte (1976).

Filmography (selection)

  • 1952: The honorable whore (La p… respectueuse)
  • 1953: The Beloved (Traviata 53)
  • 1953: hot goods for Marseille (Quai des blondes)
  • 1953: love without mercy (L'esclave)
  • 1954: Meeting in Rome (Una parigina a Roma)
  • 1954: Act of Love
  • 1955: Nagana
  • 1956: Secret War (Guilty?)
  • 1956: Scream of Conscience (Les assassins de dimanche)
  • 1956: Spies (Action immédiate)
  • 1956: The happy Road
  • 1957: DL spy ring (Deuxième bureau contre inconnu)
  • 1959: Those who drink from the cup of love (Tentations)
  • 1960: Bombs on Monte Carlo
  • 1959: Murderers ask to dance (Y en a marre)
  • 1960: The boss and his angel (Le caïd)
  • 1960: Oriental nights
  • 1960: Whoever shoots first, has more from life (Ça va être ta fête)
  • 1968: Therese and Isabell (Therese and Isabell)
  • 1970: table and bed (Domicil conjugale)
  • 1971: La maison des bois
  • 1972: Murder does not fit into his concept (Défense de savoir)
  • 1973: Projection privée

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 532.
personal data
SURNAME Laage, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Colombat, Claire
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Menthon-Saint-Bernard
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1988
Place of death Deauville