Musidora

Musidora in Les Vampires

Musidora actually, Jeanne Roques (* 23. February 1889 in Paris ; † 11. December 1957 ibid) was a French silent film - Actress , screenwriter , film director , journalist and writer . She was part of the surrealist scene and was a close friend of Colette , who wrote screenplays and dramas for her.

Life

Musidora was, along with Theda Bara , the first vamp actress in film history and the star of several serials by Louis Feuillade , who discovered her with the Folies Bergère , including in The Vampires (1915) and Judex (1916). Since the mid-1920s she only worked as a journalist and author. Among other things, she worked as a film journalist and later also worked for the Cinémathèque Française . Your stage name was borrowed from the novel Fortunio by Théophile Gautier .

Filmography (selection)

1914: Severo Torelli
1915: The Vampires (Les Vampires)
1916: Judex
1916: Le colonel Bontemps
1917: La nouvelle mission de Judex
1926: Le berceau de dieu

Web links

Commons : Musidora - collection of images, videos and audio files

Musidora in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ “Who would have guessed that there was a certain musidora in this world, immeasurably vain, capricious, depraved, malicious as a scorpion, so bad that one would like to look under her dress to see whether she has a devil's foot; a musidora without soul, without pity, without regret, who betrays even the beloved of her choice; a vampire of gold and silver who drinks the inheritance of sons from a wealthy family like soda water to keep his appetite; a demonic mocker who pours his shrill and merciless laughter over everything, a rejected courtesan who revives the orgies of antiquity without the passionate glow of a Messalina as an excuse. ”Quoted from: Thomas Brandlmeier : Fantômas. Contributions to the panic of the 20th century. Verbrecher-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935843-72-0 , p. 70.

personal data
SURNAME	Musidora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Roques, Jeanne (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French silent film actress, screenwriter, film director, journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 23, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH	December 11, 1957
Place of death	Paris , France

[1] “Who would have guessed that there was a certain musidora in this world, immeasurably vain, capricious, depraved, malicious as a scorpion, so bad that one would like to look under her dress to see whether she has a devil's foot; a musidora without soul, without pity, without regret, who betrays even the beloved of her choice; a vampire of gold and silver who drinks the inheritance of sons from a wealthy family like soda water to keep his appetite; a demonic mocker who pours his shrill and merciless laughter over everything, a rejected courtesan who revives the orgies of antiquity without the passionate glow of a Messalina as an excuse. ”Quoted from: Thomas Brandlmeier : Fantômas. Contributions to the panic of the 20th century. Verbrecher-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935843-72-0 , p. 70.