Odette Talazac

Odette Pauline Talazac (born May 6, 1883 in Paris , † March 29, 1948 there ) was a French actress .

Life

Odette Talazac's parents were the Parisian opera tenor Jean-Alexandre Talazac and the soprano Hélène Fauvelle, who had given up her stage career after marriage in 1880. Odette had two sisters.

Talazac made an acting career in the Parisian music halls , in the cabarets and on the small stages of Paris. With Louis Jouvet she played in Knock ou le triomphe de la médecine by Jules Romains in 1923 , starting a career in modern drama and from then on participated in various world premieres of contemporary French drama.

At the age of over forty, she got engagements in supporting roles in the emerging French film production and played, initially in silent films , then in over seventy films.

Filmography (selection)

• 1929: The Two Shy (Les Deux Timides) - Director: René Clair
• 1929: Le Collier de la reine - Directed by Gaston Ravel and Tony Lekain
• 1930: Le Petit Chaperon rouge - Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
• 1930: The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d'un poète) - Director: Jean Cocteau
• 1930: L'Enfant de l'amour - Director: Marcel L'Herbier
• 1931: Die Million (Le Million) - Director: René Clair
• 1931: The congress dances (Le congrès s'amuse) - Director: Erik Charell
• 1933: July 14th (Quatorze juillet) - Directed by René Clair
• 1933: Once upon a time there was a musician (C'était un musicien) - directed by Maurice Gleize and Friedrich Zelnik
• 1933: To be a great lady once (Un jour viendra) - directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and Serge Veber
• 1935: The crime of Mr. Lange (Le Crime de monsieur Lange) - Director: Jean Renoir
• 1936: La Peur ou Vertige d'un soir - Director: Viktor Tourjansky
• 1936: Anne-Marie - Directed by Raymond Bernard
• 1936: Mayerling - Director: Anatole Litvak
• 1937: Les Petites Alliées - Director: Jean Dréville
• 1937: L'Alibi - Director: Pierre Chenal
• 1938: Gibraltar - Director: Fyodor Ozep
• 1939: The rules of the game (La Règle du jeu) - Director: Jean Renoir
• 1939: Retirement (La Fin du jour) - Director: Julien Duvivier
• 1942: The murderer lives no.21 (L'assassin habite au 21) - directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 1943: Coup de tête - Directed by René Le Hénaff
• 1944: Le Voyageur sans bagage - Director: Jean Anouilh
• 1946: To little luck (Au petit bonheur) - Director: Marcel L'Herbier
• 1947: Impostor on board (Rendez-vous à Paris) - directed by Gilles Grangier
• 1947: Le Château de la dernière chance - Director: Jean-Paul Paulin
• 1948: The City of Love (Clochemerle) - Director: Pierre Chenal

Theater (selection)

• 1923: Knock ou le Triomphe de la médecine by Jules Romains . Director: Louis Jouvet , Comédie des Champs-Élysées
• 1934: Tessa, la nymphe au cœur fidèle by Jean Giraudoux after Basil Dean and Margaret Kennedy . Director: Louis Jouvet , Théâtre de l'Athénée
• 1938: Le Corsaire by Marcel Achard , directed by Louis Jouvet, Théâtre de l'Athénée
• 1939: Undine (Ondine) by Jean Giraudoux . Director: Louis Jouvet, Théâtre de l'Athénée
• 1937: Rêves sans provision by Ronald Gow . Directed by Alice Cocéa , Comédie des Champs-Élysées
• 1943: Le voyageur sans bagages by Jean Anouilh
• 1944: Antigone , Jean Anouilh . Director: André Barsacq , Théâtre de l'Atelier
• 1945: Bernarda Albas house by Federico García Lorca , directed by Maurice Jacquemont , Studio des Champs-Élysées
• 1946: Roméo et Jeannette by Jean Anouilh. Director: André Barsacq, Théâtre de l'Atelier

literature

• Maurice Bessy; André Chirat; André Bernard: Histoire du cinéma Français: encyclopédie des films . Paris: Éd. Pygmalion, Watelet 1987. Photo from La Règle du jeu on p. 427, where the small Julien Carette stands in contrast to her mighty figure.

Web links

• Literature by and about Odette Talazac in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Odette Talazac in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Odette Talazac , at Les Gens du cinéma

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Philippe Pelletier: Odette Talazac , at cineartistes (fr)