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1 Career  





2 Personal life  





3 Filmography  



3.1  Cinema  





3.2  Television  







4 Theatre  



4.1  Before time at the Comédie-Française  





4.2  During time at the Comédie-Française  





4.3  After time at the Comédie-Française  







5 Publications  





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Mary Marquet
Born

Micheline Marguerite Delphine Marquet


14 April 1895
Died29 August 1979(1979-08-29) (aged 84)
Paris, France
OccupationActress
SpouseVictor Francen

Mary Marquet (born Micheline Marguerite Delphine Marquet; 14 April 1895 – 29 August 1979) was a French stage and film actress.[1]

Career

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Marquet came from a family of artists: her parents were actors, an aunt was a star dancer at the Paris Opera, and another was an official at the Comédie-Française. She entered the National Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art in 1913 and studied under Paul Mounet. She failed her final exams, but was immediately engaged in the company of Sarah Bernhardt, who was a great friend of the family. She went on play alongside her in The anti-war play by Eugene Morand, Les Cathédrales.

She became established with her role in L'AiglonbyEdmond Rostand, whose mistress she became from 1915 to his death in 1918. She made her film debut in 1914 in a silent film, Les Frères ennemis, which was never finished. She appeared in Sarah Bernhardt's last film, La Voyante in 1923, which was filmed in the great actress's home in Paris; unfortunately Sarah died during the production and it was released with another actor playing her in long shots. Marquet's first major film role was in Sappho, produced by Léonce Perret in 1932. After World War I, she joined the Comédie-Française in 1923 where she stayed for over twenty years, before moving to the boulevard Theatre.

During the World War II, throughout the occupation, she sought the protection of German officers to protect her son who had told her of his intention to join the Resistance. The response was his arrest and deportation to Buchenwald concentration camp where he died aged 21. This was possibly the cause of her problems at the time of the Liberation when, due to her alleged relations with the enemy, Marquet was arrested and sent to Drancy and then to Fresnes. She was later released for lack of evidence.

In the 1950s, she turned to poetry recital, while continuing her career in theater on the boulevards. She worked for ORTF in the Maigret episodes of Les Cinq Dernières Minutes and Les Saintes Chéries and in the television adaptation of Lucien Leuwen, the novel by Stendhal.

Parallel to her acting career, as an antiquarian she ran a stand for many years at the Swiss Village, an important antique market in Paris where she demonstrated her skills as a saleswoman, mixing theatrical memorabilia with commercial interests.

Among her most successful parts in over forty films, were her roles in, Landru in 1962, Claude Chabrol, La Grande Vadrouille in 1966 by Gérard Oury, and Casanova in 1975 by Federico Fellini. After these three minor parts she played important roles in La vie de château (1966) the mother of Philippe Noiret and the stepmother of Catherine Deneuve and the Le malin plaisir (1975) with Claude Jade and Anny Duperey.

Personal life

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Mary Marquet and Victor Francen on their wedding day in 1934.

Her first lover was Edmond Rostand around 1915, living together for three years. In 1920 she married Maurice Escande, the future director of the house of Molière, ending in divorce in 1921, before meeting Firmin Gémier, the director of the new Théâtre National Populaire, who was still married but whose wife was barren. In 1922, Marquet gave birth to their son.

Before the death of Gémier in 1933, Marquet became the mistress of the president of the then Council, André Tardieu, in a semi-official liaison. Having broken up with Tardieu, she married Victor Francen. The couple separated after seven years together. Marquet died of heart attack at the age of 84 in her apartment in the Rue Carpeaux, She is buried in Montmartre Cemetery.

Filmography

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Cinema

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  • 1913: De Medeminaars (byAlfred Machin, unsure))
  • 1915: Sacrifice fraternel (Short, by René Leprince)
  • 1917: La P'tite du sixième (byRené HerviletLouis Mercanton)
  • 1921: La Ferme du Choquart [fr] (byJean Kemm) - L'intrigante Aleth Guépie
  • 1924: La Voyante (The Clairvoyant) (byLeon Abrams) - Madame Detaille
  • 1934: Sapho (byLéonce Perret) - Fanny Legrand
  • 1934: Un soir à la Comédie-Française [fr] (Short, by Léonce Perret)
  • 1949: Forbidden to the Public (byAlfred Pasquali) - Gabrielle Tristan
  • 1950: Le 84 prend des vacances [fr] (byLéo Joannon) - Madame de la Chambrière
  • 1952: Un jour avec vous [fr] (byJean-René Legrand) - Estelle de Marsans
  • 1952: Foyer perdu [fr] (byJean Loubignac) - Madame Barbentin mère
  • 1952: Drôle de noce [fr] (byLéo Joannon) - Madame Aglaé
  • 1952: Piédalu Works Miracles (by Jean Loubignac)
  • 1953: Open Letter (byAlex Joffé) - Laurence - La belle-mère
  • 1953: Minuit quai de Bercy [fr] (byChristian Stengel) - La grand-mère
  • 1954: Royal Affairs in Versailles (bySacha Guitry) - Madame de Maintenon
  • 1955: Men in White (byRalph Habib) - Mme. Ledragon
  • 1956: Maid in Paris (byPierre Gaspard-Huit) - Mme. Bernemal
  • 1956: Le Secret de sœur Angèle [fr] (byLéo Joannon) - La supérieure de Marseille
  • 1956: Law of the Streets (byRalph Habib) - Madame Blain
  • 1957: Quelle sacrée soirée / Nuit blanche et rouge à lèvres (byRobert Vernay) - La colonelle Dupont
  • 1959: Drôle de phénomènes (byRobert Vernay) - La grand-mère volante
  • 1960: The Nabob Affair (byRalph Habib) - L'hôtelière
  • 1962: Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin [fr] (byÉdouard Molinaro) - la reine-mère Elisabeth de Moldavie / Queen Mother
  • 1962: Nous irons à Deauville (byFrancis Rigaud) - La propriétaire - Gertrude Couffinous
  • 1963: Landru (byClaude Chabrol) - Madame Guillin
  • 1966: A Matter of Resistance (byJean-Paul Rappeneau) - Charlotte
  • 1966: Les Combinards [fr] (byJean-Claude Roy) - Mme Florenne, la marieuse
  • 1966: The Gardener of Argenteuil (byJean-Paul Le Chanois) - Dora
  • 1966: La Grande Vadrouille (byGérard Oury) - Mère Supérieure
  • 1967: Des garçons et des filles (byÉtienne Périer) - Tante Berthe
  • 1967: Ce sacré grand-père [fr] (byJacques Poitrenaud) - La Duchesse
  • 1968: Phèdre [fr] (byPierre Jourdan) - Oenone
  • 1969: Bruno, l'enfant du dimanche [fr] (byLouis Grospierre [fr]) - Le mère de Michel
  • 1974: Le Mouton enragé (byMichel Deville)
  • 1974: La Bonne Nouvelle [fr] (Short, by André Weinfeld) - La tante / The Aunt
  • 1974: Par ici la monnaie [fr] (byRichard Balducci [fr]) - La propriètaire
  • 1974: Le polygame (by Maurice Jacquin Jr.) - La concierge
  • 1974: La Merveilleuse Visite [fr] (byMarcel Carné) - La duchesse
  • 1975: Malicious Pleasure (byBernard Toublanc-Michel) - Madame Malaiseau
  • 1976: Opération Lady Marlène [fr] (byRobert Lamoureux) - La centenaire
  • 1976: Fellini's Casanova (byFederico Fellini) - Casanova's mother (uncredited)
  • 1977: Une fille cousue de fil blanc [fr] (byMichel Lang) - La grand-mère (final film role)
  • Television

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    Theatre

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    Before time at the Comédie-Française

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    During time at the Comédie-Française

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    After time at the Comédie-Française

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    Publications

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    References

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    1. ^ Delacroix, Christiane. "Décès de Mary Marquet". Institut national de l'audiovisuel (in French). Retrieved 3 April 2016.

    Further reading

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