Marie Bell

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Marie Bell (1956)

Marie Bell (* December 23, 1900 as Marie-Jeanne Bellon in Bègles near Bordeaux , France , † August 14, 1985 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French actress and theater director .

theatre

Marie Bell received her artistic training at the Paris Conservatory . In 1921 she began her career as a stage actress at the Comédie-Française . In 1928 she was appointed partner there. Bell remained active on this most important theater stage in France until 1946. In between, Marie Bell became director of the Théatre des Amabassadeurs in the mid-1930s. In 1958 she also took over the management of the Parisian Théâtre du Gymnase , which would later bear her name. There the artist preferred to perform tabloids and plays by Félicien Marceau and Françoise Sagan .

Marie Bell has made a name for herself primarily as a tragedian. In 1960 she enjoyed late success with her portrayal of Madame Irma in Peter Brooks' production of Jean Genet's Le balcon . Her participation in Molière's The Conceited Sick and The Misanthrope also attracted attention, but also her portrayals of Phaedra and Esther in ancient tragedies. Marie Bell also appeared in several more modern pieces, such as Jean Cocteau's Renaud et Armide and Paul Claudel's The Silk Shoe .

movie theater

Even in the silent film era, since the late 1920s, Marie Bell was often in front of the camera and regularly until the outbreak of World War II . In the early years of sound film she appeared in several French versions of German films. Bell's double role as Florence and Irma in Jacques Feyder's Foreign Legion drama The Last Stage (1934), a masterpiece of poetic realism , and in 1937 her part as Christine, "which in Julien Duvivier's game of memory, made a depressing journey into hers, gained importance undertakes own past. "

After the end of the war, Marie Bell hardly took part in the cinema; she had supporting character roles in several productions in the 1960s.

Miscellaneous

President Charles de Gaulle named Marie Bell Knight of the Legion of Honor for her services as a Resistance activist during World War II . In 1969 she was a member of the festival jury at the Cannes Film Festival.

Marie Bell, who was married to the actor Jean Chevrier (1915–1975), was buried in Monaco .

Filmography

  • 1924: The children of Montmartre (Paris)
  • 1926: Farewell Waltz (La valse de l'adieu)
  • 1928: Madame Récamier
  • 1929: The Barber of Seville (Figaro)
  • 1929: La nuit est à nous
  • 1930: Soker
  • 1930: L'homme qui assassina
  • 1931: La chance
  • 1932: La folle aventure
  • 1932: L'homme à l'hispano
  • 1933: Caprices de princesse
  • 1934: The last stage (Le grand jeu)
  • 1934: Fédora
  • 1934: Poliche
  • 1935: Le roman d'un jeune homme pauvre
  • 1935: Sous la terreur
  • 1936: La garçonne
  • 1936: Quand minuit sonnera
  • 1936: La tentation
  • 1936: Blanchette
  • 1936: Les demi-vierges
  • 1936: Pantins d'amour
  • 1937: La glu
  • 1937: Game of Memory (Un carnet de bal)
  • 1938: Legion of Honor (Legion d'honneur)
  • 1938: Noix de coco
  • 1939: La charrette fantôme
  • 1940: Ceux du ciel
  • 1942: Vie privée
  • 1943: Colonel Chabert (Le colonel Chabert)
  • 1962: The Leopard (Il Gattopardo)
  • 1963: The easy money of love (La bonne soupe)
  • 1965: Sandra (Vaghe stelle dell'orsa)
  • 1966: Hotel Paradiso
  • 1968: Phèdre
  • 1973: Les volets clos

literature

  • 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 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 312.
  • Marie Bell , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 43/1985 of October 14, 1985, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

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 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 312.
personal data
SURNAME Bell, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bellon, Marie-Jeanne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actress and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Bègles near Bordeaux , France
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1985
Place of death Neuilly-sur-Seine