She performed in over twenty theatre productions, frequently in the Théâtre Réjane. Her film career took place mostly during the silent movie era. She is most famous for her portrayal of Madame Beudet in The Smiling Madame Beudet.
She had an older sister, actress Jeanne Delvair née Duluermoz (1877-1949), and a younger brother, Henri Deluermoz (1876-1943), who was a painter.
Auguste Émile Faguet was a French author and literary critic.
Gabrielle Réjane, néeGabrielle Charlotte Réju, was a French actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Gaston Baty, whose full name was Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty, was a French playwright and theatre director. He was born in Pélussin, Loire, France.
La Souriante Madame Beudet is a short French impressionist silent film made in 1923, directed by pioneering avant-garde cinema director Germaine Dulac. It stars Germaine Dermoz as Madame Beudet and Alexandre Arquillière as Monsieur Beudet. It is considered by many to be one of the first truly "feminist" films. It tells the story of an intelligent woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
Pierre-Eugène Veber was a French playwright and writer.
Henri Desfontaines was a French film director, actor, and scriptwriter.
Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset was an early film pioneer in France, active between the years 1905 and 1913. He worked on many genres of film and was particularly associated with the development of detective or crime serials, such as the Nick Carter and Zigomar series.
Julien Bertheau was a French actor.
André Calmettes (1861-1942) was a French actor and film director.
Mary Marquet was a French stage and film actress.
Jacques Baumer, was a French theatre director and comedian.
René Max Weill, who used the pseudonym Romain Coolus, was a French novelist, dramatist and film scriptwriter.
Charles Dechamps was a French stage and film actor. He married the comedian Fernande Albany on 19 November 1925. He died in 1959, and was buried at cimetière du Père-Lachaise.
Paul Armand Marcel Gavault was a French dramatist, playwright and former director of the théâtre de l'Odéon.
Maurice Ordonneau was a French dramatist and composer. The son of a merchant of eau de vie, Ordonneau was a prolific author in creating theatrical works. He composed, often with the collaboration of other playwrights, composers and musicians, a great number of operettas, opéra-bouffes, comedies and vaudevilles.
Camille de Morlhon was a French film director.
Denis d'Inès, real name Joseph-Victor-Octave Denis, was a French actor and theatre director for some plays. He entered the Comédie-Française in 1914, was a sociétaire from 1920 to 1953, and General administrator by intérim in 1945.
Jeanne Lion, or Jeanne Léonnec, was a French stage and film actress.
Amélie Diéterle was a French actress and opera singer. She was one of the popular actresses of the Belle Époque until the beginning of the Années Folles. Amélie Diéterle inspired the poets Léon Dierx and Stéphane Mallarmé and the painters Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Alfred Philippe Roll.
Marie Kalff, was a Dutch-born actress, based in Paris.
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