Gabrielle Dorziat
French postcard in the Series Collection Artistique du Vin Désiles by S.I.P. Photo: Jean Reutlinger, Paris. Caption: Patience and le Vin Désiles lead to everything. Gabrielle Dorziat.
French stage and film actress Gabrielle Dorziat (1880–1979) was a fashion trendsetter in Paris and helped popularise the designs of Coco Chanel. The Théâtre Gabrielle-Dorziat in Épernay, France is named for her. From 1936 onwards, she appeared in over 70 films.
Gabrielle Dorziat was born Marie Odile Léonie Gabrielle Sigrist in Epernay in 1880. She was a student at the Lycée Racine (Paris). Dorziat made her stage début in 1898 at the Théâtre Royal du Parc in Brussels. She moved to Paris and appeared in Alfred Capus' 'La Bourse ou la vie' (1900), but it was her performance as Thérèse Herbault in 'Chaîne anglaise' (1906) that brought her to public attention. She became known for her off-stage life as well, becoming romantically involved with actors Lucien Guitry and Louis Jouvet. She had close friendships with Jean Cocteau, Jean Giraudoux, Coco Chanel, Paul Bourget and Henri Bernstein. A great lover of fashion, Gabrielle Dorziat was one of the first to wear the Chanel hat in 1912. During World War I Dorziat left France to tour the United States where she raised money for war refugees. After the war she toured Canada, South America and the rest of Europe.
In the silent era, Gabrielle Dorziat appeared in her first film L'Infante à la rose (Henry Houry, 1923). She went on to play in over sixty films including Mayerling (Anatole Litvak, 1936) with Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux, Les Parents terribles (Jean Cocteau, 1948) and Manon (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1949). She published her memoirs 'Côté cour, côté jardin' in 1968. She paid tribute to those who accompanied her in one of the highlights of her career, Jean Cocteau's 'Les Parents terribles' with Yvonne de Bray and Jean Marais: "During five hundred performances, I had the time to get to know and appreciate my author and we became great friends. " Gabrielle Dorziat died in 1979 in Biarritz, less than two months before her hundredth birthday. Dorziat married Count Michel de Zogheb in Cairo in 1925. The count, who died in 1964, was a friend of King Fouad. The "Countess of Zogheb" is buried in the old cemetery of Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine.
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Gabrielle Dorziat
French postcard in the Series Collection Artistique du Vin Désiles by S.I.P. Photo: Jean Reutlinger, Paris. Caption: Patience and le Vin Désiles lead to everything. Gabrielle Dorziat.
French stage and film actress Gabrielle Dorziat (1880–1979) was a fashion trendsetter in Paris and helped popularise the designs of Coco Chanel. The Théâtre Gabrielle-Dorziat in Épernay, France is named for her. From 1936 onwards, she appeared in over 70 films.
Gabrielle Dorziat was born Marie Odile Léonie Gabrielle Sigrist in Epernay in 1880. She was a student at the Lycée Racine (Paris). Dorziat made her stage début in 1898 at the Théâtre Royal du Parc in Brussels. She moved to Paris and appeared in Alfred Capus' 'La Bourse ou la vie' (1900), but it was her performance as Thérèse Herbault in 'Chaîne anglaise' (1906) that brought her to public attention. She became known for her off-stage life as well, becoming romantically involved with actors Lucien Guitry and Louis Jouvet. She had close friendships with Jean Cocteau, Jean Giraudoux, Coco Chanel, Paul Bourget and Henri Bernstein. A great lover of fashion, Gabrielle Dorziat was one of the first to wear the Chanel hat in 1912. During World War I Dorziat left France to tour the United States where she raised money for war refugees. After the war she toured Canada, South America and the rest of Europe.
In the silent era, Gabrielle Dorziat appeared in her first film L'Infante à la rose (Henry Houry, 1923). She went on to play in over sixty films including Mayerling (Anatole Litvak, 1936) with Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux, Les Parents terribles (Jean Cocteau, 1948) and Manon (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1949). She published her memoirs 'Côté cour, côté jardin' in 1968. She paid tribute to those who accompanied her in one of the highlights of her career, Jean Cocteau's 'Les Parents terribles' with Yvonne de Bray and Jean Marais: "During five hundred performances, I had the time to get to know and appreciate my author and we became great friends. " Gabrielle Dorziat died in 1979 in Biarritz, less than two months before her hundredth birthday. Dorziat married Count Michel de Zogheb in Cairo in 1925. The count, who died in 1964, was a friend of King Fouad. The "Countess of Zogheb" is buried in the old cemetery of Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine.
Sources: Wikipedia (English, French and Dutch) and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.