Lugné-Poe
Vintage French postcard. Comoedia. Nos artistes dans leur loge, no. 118.
Aurélien-Marie Lugné (27 December 1869 – 19 June 1940), known by his stage and pen name Lugné-Poe (aka Aurélien Lugné-Poe, Lugné-Poë and Lugné-Poé) , was a French actor, theatre director, stage designer, and theatre critic. He founded the landmark Paris theatre company, the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, which produced experimental work by French Symbolist writers and painters at the end of the nineteenth century. Like his contemporary, theatre pioneer André Antoine, he gave the French premieres of works by the leading Scandinavian playwrights Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, but also e.g. Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, Oscar Wilde's Salome, Maeterlinck's adaptation of Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, and Maeterlinck's own Pelléas et Mélisande.
Lugné-Poe also acted in handful of films in the 1930s. In Lévy et Cie (André Hugon, 1930) he is a millionaire of whom some 200 namesakes believe they will inherit from. Next followed Maurice Tourneur's the drama Partir (1931), the Noël-Noël comedy Papa sans le savoir (Robert Wyler, 1932), M. Duval, father of Armand, La dame aux camélias (Fernand Rivers, Abel Gance, 1934) starring Yvonne Printemps, and finally, Chipée (Roger Goupillières, 1938).
Lugné-Poe
Vintage French postcard. Comoedia. Nos artistes dans leur loge, no. 118.
Aurélien-Marie Lugné (27 December 1869 – 19 June 1940), known by his stage and pen name Lugné-Poe (aka Aurélien Lugné-Poe, Lugné-Poë and Lugné-Poé) , was a French actor, theatre director, stage designer, and theatre critic. He founded the landmark Paris theatre company, the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, which produced experimental work by French Symbolist writers and painters at the end of the nineteenth century. Like his contemporary, theatre pioneer André Antoine, he gave the French premieres of works by the leading Scandinavian playwrights Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, but also e.g. Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, Oscar Wilde's Salome, Maeterlinck's adaptation of Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, and Maeterlinck's own Pelléas et Mélisande.
Lugné-Poe also acted in handful of films in the 1930s. In Lévy et Cie (André Hugon, 1930) he is a millionaire of whom some 200 namesakes believe they will inherit from. Next followed Maurice Tourneur's the drama Partir (1931), the Noël-Noël comedy Papa sans le savoir (Robert Wyler, 1932), M. Duval, father of Armand, La dame aux camélias (Fernand Rivers, Abel Gance, 1934) starring Yvonne Printemps, and finally, Chipée (Roger Goupillières, 1938).