Jane Placide

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Jane Placide ( 1804 - May 16, 1835 ) was an American actress.

Life

Jane Placide's parents immigrated to the United States in 1792. Her mother was a singer, her father Alexandre Placide was a theater manager in Charleston . Jane Placide had three siblings; Caroline, Henry and Thomas. All four children became well-known actors. It is partly unclear which stage name they later used.

Alexandre Placides Theater was destroyed in a fire. Apparently the troupe had also been decimated because Placide had recruited new actors through an agent in England, including the young James H. Caldwell . He arrived in Charleston in 1816, but did not stay there for long: four years later he settled in New Orleans . A son was born to him who was named after William Shakespeare ; whether Caldwell was married to the child's mother is unclear. Caldwell became theater manager and in that capacity met Jane Placide again. This was from 1823 a member of the troupe of the Théâtre d'Orléans. Allegedly, Edwin Forrest , who fell in love with Jane Placide , challenged Caldwell to a duel after discovering that he was the young actress's lover.

Caldwell, who was not only active in the field of theater, made the decision to introduce gas lighting for New Orleans. Jane Placide accompanied him on a trip to England in 1834 to attract supporters, who then made her debut at the Covent Garden Theater.

After her untimely death, Caldwell selected verses by Barry Cornwall for the epitaph. Jane Placide was buried in Girod Cemetery . When this cemetery was closed in the 1950s, her remains were reburied in the Hope Mausoleum.

Caldwell, on the Jane Placide's grave decoration goes back, later had three children with a Margaret Abrams, of whom he adopted the surviving two sons years later. He was temporarily married to Josephine Rowe, the daughter of one of his leading actresses. Ten years older than his mother-in-law, he outlived his wife by several years. After his death in 1863, his body was brought from New York to New Orleans, where he is buried in Cypress Grove Cemetery.

literature

  • Patricia Lynn Burroughs, The Theatrical Career of Jane Placide in New Orleans , MA Thesis, Louisiana State University 1970

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ usgwarchives.net
  2. ↑ William L. Sloud and Charles Durang, The Theatrical Rambles of Mr. and Mrs. John Greene , Borgo Press 2007, ISBN 978-0809513062, p. 55, state that Caldwell was married to a beautiful widow at an early age, Chase, who as Gives birth year for the son 1820 and is thus in contradiction to other sources, knows nothing about it.
  3. ^ As stated in Louisiana History , but according to Chase not until 1825.
  4. ↑ Florence M. Jumonville, Louisiana History: An Annotated Bibliography , Greenwood Pub, Ndr. 2002, ISBN 978-0313282409, p. 224
  5. ↑ Sloud / Durang 2007, p. 55
  6. ↑ New Orleans City Guide , 1938, p. 191  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / de.scribd.com  
  7. ↑ Hope Mausoleum
  8. ↑ John Churchill Chase, Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children:. . . and Other Streets of New Orleans! , Pelican Pub 2001, ISBN 978-1565549319, p. 125 f.
personal data
SURNAME Placide, Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1804
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1835