Gabrielle Dorziat
Born: 1880-01-25 in Épernay, Marne, France
Died: 1979-11-30
Known For: Acting
Biography
Gabrielle Dorziat (1880–1979) was a French stage and film actress.[Dorziat was a fashion trend setter in Paris and helped popularize the designs of Coco Chanel. The Théâtre Gabrielle-Dorziat in Épernay, France is named for her. She was born in 1880. 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. 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 1921 Dorziat appeared in her first film L'Infante à la rose. She went on to play in over sixty films including Mayerling, Les Parents terribles and Manon. In 1925, she married Count Michel de Zogheb, a friend of King Fuad I of Egypt. She published her memoirs Côté cour, côté jardin in 1968. She died in 1979. Source: Article "Gabrielle Dorziat" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
1972
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
1965
- Frédéric le gardian as maman rose
- Husband for Sale as Ms Reinhof
- Thomas the Impostor as la cartomancienne
1964
- Cyrano and d'Artagnan as Mme de Mauvières
- Monsieur as Monsieur's Mother-in-law
1963
- Germinal as Catherine's grandmother
1962
- A Monkey in Winter as Mme Victoria, la directrice
- Gigot as Madame Brigitte
- Climates of Love
1959
- Katia
- Drôles de phénomènes as Madame Marcevault
1958
- The Queen of Spades as La comtesse Anna Feodotovna Tomski
- Resurrection as Kitajewa
1957
- The Spies as Madame Andrée l'infirmière
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Pity for the Vamps as Éléonore Davis
1955
1954
- Madame du Barry as La Gourdan
- Le Fil à la patte as La baronne du Verger, mère de Viviane
- The Two Orphans as La Frochard
1953
- Act of Love as Adèle Lacaud
- Little Boy Lost as Mother Superior
- Traviata 53 as Zoe
1952
- Son of the Hunchback as Contessa Lagardere
- The Truth About Bebe Donge as Mme d'Ortemont
- So Little Time as Madame de Malvines
- Judgement of God as La margrave Josépha
1950
- Tomorrow Is Too Late as Headmistress
- Born of Unknown Father as Mrs. Mussot
- Dream Ballerina as Aunt
1949
- Manon as Saleswoman
1948
- The Queen's Lover as la duchesse d'Albuquerque
- Just a Big Simple Girl as Aunt Edmée
- The Storm Within as Tante Léo
- Paris 1900 as Self (archive footage)
1947
- Monsieur Vincent as La présidente Groussault
- Mirror as Mrs. Puc
- Distress as Madame Meillan
1946
- Goodbye Darling as Constance Hélène Brétillac
- L'ange qu'on m'a donné as Countess of Cébrat
1945
- Paris Frills as Solange, l'assistante de Philippe
- Check on the King as Madame de Maintenon
1943
- The Wolf of the Malveneurs as Magda de Malveneur
- Le Voyageur de la Toussaint as Gérardine Éloi
- The Phantom Baron as La comtesse de Saint-Helie
1942
- Patricia as Mademoiselle Pressac, aunt Laurie
- The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock as Mademoiselle Lebeau
- L'Appel du bled as Madame Darbois
- Soyez les bienvenus as Madame Boisleroi
1941
- Her First Affair as The director of the orphanage
1940
- From Mayerling to Sarajevo as Archduchess Marie-Thérèse
- The French Way as Madame Ancelot
- The Man Who Seeks the Truth as Adrienne
1939
- The End of the Day as Marthe Chabert
- Behind the Facade as Mrs. Bernier, wife of the President
1938
- Mother Love as Adrienne
- Hatred as Mme Mollenard
- The Shanghai Drama as College director
- Monsieur Breloque a disparu as Baroness Granger
- Êtes-vous jalouse ? as Gabrielle Brunois
- A Foolish Maiden as Gisèle's mother
1937
- L'amour veille as Madame de Juvigny
- The Lie of Nina Petrovna as Baroness Engern
- Woman of Malacca as Lady Patricia Brandmore
- Southern Carrier as La mère
1936
- Mayerling as Empress Élisabeth
- Samson as la marquise d'Andeline
- Forty Little Mothers as Mme Granval, the director