Juliette Darcourt | |
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 Juliette Darcourt, photographed by Nadar in 1885 | |
| Other names | Juliette d'Harcourt |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, singer |
Juliette Darcourt also seen as Juliette d'Harcourt, was a French actress and singer on the Paris stage.
Juliette Darcourt | |
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| Juliette Darcourt, photographed by Nadar in 1885 | |
| Other names | Juliette d'Harcourt |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, singer |
Juliette Darcourt also seen as Juliette d'Harcourt, was a French actress and singer on the Paris stage.
In 1878, Darcourt was a young beauty in the company of Coco, at the opening of Jules Brasseur's Théâtre des Nouveautés in Paris. [1] She appeared in operettas, often with the Opéra-Comique, including Le Premier Baiser (1883), [2] Vie Parisienne (1883), [3] Le Château de Tire-Larigot (1884), La Nuits aux soufflets (1884), [4] L'Oiseau bleu (1884), [5] La Vie mondaine (1885), Le Petit Chaperon rouge (1885), L'amour Mouillé (1887), [6] Le Puits qui parle (1888), Juanita (1891), [7] and Le Commandant Laripète (1892). [8]
In 1899 Darcourt was in the casts of Le Faubourg and Les Amants Legitimes in Paris. [9] [10] She was in Sylvie, ou La Curieuse d'Amour in 1900. [11] In 1901 she was in the cast of Paul Hervieu's play, The Trail of the Torch, when it debuted at the Théatre du Vaudeville. [12] In 1903, she was described as "particularly good" in a production of L'Adversaire by Alfred Capus. [13] She was considered a fashionable woman; reports and photographs of her gowns were published internationally. [14]
Darcourt married the actor Albert Brasseur (Jules's son), who died in 1932. [15]
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