Sylvie

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Sylvie (* January 3, 1883 as Louise Pauline Mainguené in Paris , † January 5, 1970 in Compiègne ), also known as Louise Sylvie , was a French actress . In addition to her successful stage career, she appeared in over 50 film and television roles. She became known to a wide audience through René Allio's film The Unworthy Greisin (1965).

Life

Sylvie was born Louise Pauline Mainguené in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. The student of the well-known actor and Comédie Française member Eugène Silvain (1851-1930) made her professional stage debut on October 13, 1902 with the role of Agnès in Molière's The School of Women at the Parisian Théâtre de l'Odéon . Discovered by the actor and director André Antoine , director of the Théâtre de l'Odéon , she quickly advanced to become one of the leading actresses on the Parisian theater scene through the embodiment of naive, innocent characters. She took on numerous leading roles, both in classical and contemporary fabrics, and also slipped into the role of the sly or ordinary.

In parallel with her theater career, Sylvie also appeared in silent films from 1912 onwards . The actress with the wistful eyes made her debut in Camille de Morlhon's short film Britannicus , after which she was often used as a popular “youngster”. After Jacques de Baroncelli's Roger la Honte (1922), Sylvie turned away from film and concentrated on her theatrical work. It wasn't until 1935 that she returned to the big screen with the role of Katerina Ivanovna in Pierre Chenal's award-winning Dostoyevsky adaptation, Schuld und Atonement, alongside Pierre Blanchar . She then appeared regularly in feature film productions of all genres and, until shortly before the start of the Second World War, often gave unsympathetic characters a face. With these, "sharp and angular, idiosyncratic and often unorthodox", she moved away from the image of women at the time.

Sylvie took on roles in Julien Duvivier's plays Game of Memory (1937) and Retirement (1939), Henri-Georges Clouzot's crime film Der Rabe (1943) and Marcel Carné's literary adaptation Therese Raquin - You Shall Not Commit Adultery , while she did so from the 1950s was seen in Italian productions such as Mario Camerini's monumental film The Journeys of Odysseus (1955) or Valerio Zurlini's Golden Lion Prize Winner Diary of a Sinner (1962). Although the Frenchwoman acted in these films alongside well-known fellow actors like Kirk Douglas , Fernandel , Pierre Fresnay , Marcello Mastroianni , Simone Signoret and Michel Simon , she was almost always subscribed to supporting roles or insignificant extras, more often as a balanced superior mother or grandmother.

Her breakthrough as a film actress came in 1965 with the title role in René Allio's directorial debut The Unworthy Old Woman . In this drama she slipped into the role of an old lady who only begins to blossom after the death of her husband. To the surprise of her family and friends, she begins to travel, surrounding herself with luxurious goods and younger, sometimes unpresentable people. The film adaptation of a short story by Bertolt Brecht received great praise from the international specialist press. For the part of the quirky old Madame Bertini, Sylvie was awarded the French Étoile de Cristal for best actress in 1965. Two years later she received the Best Actor Award of the newly founded American National Society of Film Critics , while the British daily The Times her performance as "excellent," praised. After this success, the actress retired into private life. She died in 1970, two days after her 87th birthday.

Filmography

  • 1912: Britannicus
  • 1912: Ursule Mirouët
  • 1912: Mignon
  • 1913: Germinal
  • 1914: Marie Jeanne ou la fille du peuple
  • 1914: La Joie fait peur
  • 1916: Au dessus de l'amour
  • 1917: Le Coupable
  • 1922: Roger la Honte
  • 1935: Crime and Punishment (Crime et châtiment)
  • 1937: Game of Memory (Un carnet de bal)
  • 1938: L'Affaire Lafarge
  • 1938: love of theater (Entrée des artistes)
  • 1939: Retirement (La Fin du jour)
  • 1939: The white slave (L'Esclave blanche)
  • 1940: Happiness (La Comédie du bonheur)
  • 1941: La Romance de Paris
  • 1941: Montmartre-sur-Seine
  • 1943: L'Homme sans nom
  • 1943: Marie-Martine
  • 1943: The Song of Songs of Love (Les Anges du péché)
  • 1943: The Raven (Le Corbeau)
  • 1944: Le Voyageur sans bagage
  • 1943: Adventure in Corsica (L'Île d'amour)
  • 1945: Le Père Goriot
  • 1945: La route du bagne
  • 1946: Le Pays sans étoiles
  • 1946: The Idiot (L'Idiot)
  • 1946: This is not how you die (On ne meurt pas comme ça)
  • 1947: Miroir
  • 1947: For a night of love (Pour une nuit d'amour)
  • 1947: Coïncidences
  • 1948: La Révoltée
  • 1949: Deux amours
  • 1949: Tous les deux
  • 1949: Deadly Passion (Pattes blanches)
  • 1950: God needs people (Dieu a besoin des hommes)
  • 1951: Under the sky of Paris (Sous le ciel de Paris)
  • 1952: Don Camillo and Peppone (Don Camillo)
  • 1952: We are all murderers (Nous sommes tous des assassins)
  • 1952: Forbidden Fruit (Le Fruit défendu)
  • 1953: Thérèse Raquin - You shall not commit adultery (Thérèse Raquin)
  • 1954: Tempi nostri
  • 1955: The journeys of Odysseus (Ulisse)
  • 1955: The black file (Le Dossier noir)
  • 1956: Rogue Cavaliers (Les Truands)
  • 1956: The Tsar's Courier (Michel Strogoff)
  • 1958: The day and the night (Le Miroir à deux faces)
  • 1960: Monsieur Dupont (Quai du point du jour)
  • 1960: Crésus
  • 1962: Diary of a Sinner (Cronaca familiare)
  • 1963: A castle in Sweden (Château en Suède)
  • 1965: The unworthy old woman (La Vieille Dame indigne)
  • 1965: Belphégor or the secret of the Louvre (Belphégor, four episodes)
  • 1965: Umorismo in nero (a series)
  • 1968: Juan revient de guerre (TV)

Awards

literature

  • Jean-Loup Passek (Ed.): Dictionnaire du cinéma français . Larousse, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-03-720031-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Liz-Anne Bawden (Ed.): Bucher's Encyclopedia of Films . Bucher, Lucerne [u. a.] 1977, ISBN 3-7658-0231-X , p. 754
  2. ↑ a b c Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of the film . 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 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 581.
  3. ↑ a b biography  ( 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. at cinema.aliceadsl.fr (French; accessed on September 26, 2009)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / cinema.aliceadsl.fr  
  4. ↑ Brecht with wayward charm . In: The Times , November 22, 1966, p. 14
personal data
SURNAME Sylvie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mainguené, Louise Pauline (real name); Sylvie, Louise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1970
Place of death Compiègne , France