Berthe Bovy
Berthe Marguerite Jeanne Bovy (* 6. January 1887 in Liege , Liège Province , † 26 February 1977 in Montgeron , department Essonne , Ile-de-France , France ) was a Belgian actress who primarily by their numerous roles in comedies known has been.
Life
Berthe Bovy was the daughter of the journalist , poet and playwright Théophile Bovy , who wrote the text for Le Chant des Wallons , Wallonia's hymn . Her father gave her a vocal training and her first small roles in stage works .
After training at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles and in 1906 at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris with Charles Le Bargy , she joined the Comédie-Française in 1907 , where she worked with Sarah Bernhardt . There she made her debut in Le Baiser , an Opéra comique by Adolphe Deslandres , where she played the role of a transvestite . Her breakthrough as an actress had but only shortly afterwards cousin La Bette of Honoré de Balzac .
Shortly thereafter she began her career as a film actress when she starred in the " Film d'Art " production The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (1908) as a page. In the silent film La rein Margot (1910) by Camille de Morlhon , she played Queen Margaret of Valois .
In 1921 she celebrated great success on a tour with the piece 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 their third marriage, while it was Fresnay's second marriage.
She had a tremendous success in 1930 in the drama La Voix humaine by Jean Cocteau : In this play she played a woman who spoke on the phone for the last time to her lover, who left her to marry. In this role, her great talent became particularly clear and Cocteau himself appreciated with the words:
- "It is everything, made of bones and tendons, and vibrates like a Stradivarius."
- 'Elle est tout en os et en nerfs et vibre comme un Stradivarius.'
In the film Le Jouer (1938) by Louis Daquin and Gerhard Lamprecht , the French-language version of Lamprecht's film The Gambler (1938), she played the highly acclaimed role of 'babushka' alongside Pierre Blanchar and Viviane Romance .
After the occupation of Belgium by the German Wehrmacht during the western campaign in World War II in 1940, she refused to tour Germany in 1942 and left the Théâtre français . Nevertheless, she played roles in plays such as Arsenic et Vieilles Dentelles (arsenic and lace cap) by Joseph Kesselring at tabloid theaters , thus establishing her new image as a worthy older, albeit difficult lady.
She had another highly acclaimed film appearance in 1945 as 'Madame Bonnet' in Boule de suif based on Guy de Maupassant by director Christian-Jaque alongside Micheline Presle and Louis Salou . In 1950 she made a well-known stage comeback at the Maison de Molière in a role in the play La Folle Aventure . She also gave a much-noticed tour with the play of the same name based on the novel The Queen's Collar by Alexandre Dumas the Elder . In L'affaire Naundorf. She embodied Énigmes de l'histoire , now an honorary member of the Comédie-Française , the role of Agathe de Rambaud .
She had her last big appearance in 1967 at the age of eighty as "Madame Pernelle" in Tartuffe in Molière .
Filmography (selection)
- 1908: The assassination of the Duke of Guise (L'Assassinat du duc de Guise)
- 1910: David et Goliath
- 1911: Latude ou Trente-cinq ans de captivité
- 1912: L'attrait de Paris
- 1912: La conquête du bonheur
- 1921: La Terre
- 1938: Le Jouer
- 1945: Boule de suif
- 1948: L'ombre
- 1948: From person to person (D'homme à hommes)
- 1948: L'armoire volante
- 1951: La maison Bonnadieu
- 1954: The Maurizius case (L'affaire Maurizius)
- 1955: The Secret of Sister Angelika (Le Secret de sœur Angèle)
- 1956: Hello Doctor! (Bonjour Toubib)
- 1957: Énigmes de l'histoire (TV series)
- 1967: L'Arlésienne (TV movie)
- 1971: Crime et châtiment (TV film)
- 1971: La belle aventure (TV movie)
Web links
- Berthe Bovy in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Biography in Cent Wallons du siècle , Institut Jules Destrée, Charleroi, 1995
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bovy, Berthe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bovy, Berthe Marguerite Jeanne (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian film and theater actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liege , Province of Liege |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1977 |
| Place of death | Montgeron , Essonne Department , Île-de-France , France |