Suzanne Grandais

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Suzanne Grandais

Suzanne Grandais , actually Suzanne Gueudret (born June 14, 1893 in Paris , † August 28, 1920 in Vaudoy-en-Brie , France ) was a French dancer and silent film actress , a star of the 1910s.

Live and act

Born in Paris, she attended the conservatory in her hometown and joined the stage as a dancer ( Théâtre de Cluny ) at the age of 16 . Then Suzanne Grandais went on tour to South America. In October 1911, Louis Feuillade engaged Suzanne Grandais and built her up as the first female screen star in France on behalf of the production company Gaumont . Suzanne Grandais was soon called the "French Mary Pickford ". Like her Canadian-American model, the Grandais was also subscribed to funny, fresh, young girls and flappers with a heart of gold in dramas, melodramas and comedies.

In 1913, the year in which the actress founded her own production company ('Les films SG'), the Frenchwoman was hired by the Cologne-based production company Deutsche Kinematographen-Gesellschaft to go to Germany for a six-part film series. She received the criticism with benevolence, about her first German production “So ist das Leben”, for example, in the Kinematographische Rundschau: “ Suzanne Grandais plays a so-called bomb role in the first three acts. All registers of her already shown artistic performance are let go and we see Suzanne fighting through a love in all her sentimentality ... “At the beginning of 1914 she was back in front of the camera in home studios, the outbreak of the First World War interrupted Grandais' film career for over a few months a year. While filming her last film “L'essor” , the artist died, just 27 years old, in a car accident east of Paris.

Filmography

  • 1911: Le paix du foyer
  • 1911: Eugène amoureux
  • 1911: L'Alibi
  • 1911: La rançon du bonheur
  • 1911: Histoire d'un valet du chambre
  • 1911: Laquelle?
  • 1912: La Petite Volontaire
  • 1912: La Bienfaitrice
  • 1912: La Bonne Hôtesse
  • 1912: Fantaisie de milliardaire
  • 1912: Le nain
  • 1912: Léonce veut maigrir
  • 1913: Suzanne
  • 1913: La gitane
  • 1913: Le bonheur de Suzanne
  • 1913: That's life
  • 1913: love intrigues
  • 1913: Two poor rich people
  • 1913: The air torpedo
  • 1913: too late
  • 1913: love knows no obstacle
  • 1914: La Rencontre
  • 1914: Fille d'amiral
  • 1914: Grande sœur
  • 1915: La petite de sixième
  • 1916: L'Esclave de Phidias
  • 1916: Midinettes
  • 1917: Le Tablier blanc
  • 1917: Le tournant
  • 1917: Oh ce baiser
  • 1917: Son aventure
  • 1918: Le Siège des trois
  • 1918: Mea Culpa
  • 1918: Son aventure
  • 1918: Loréna
  • 1918: Trois K.
  • 1919: Simplette
  • 1920: Suzanne et les brigands
  • 1920: Gosse de riche
  • 1920: L'essor

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 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 356.

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 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 356.
  2. ↑ Cinematographic review of September 7, 1913
personal data
SURNAME Grandais, Suzanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gueudret, Suzanne (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French silent film actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1920
Place of death Vaudoy-en-Brie , France