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
- Thomas the Impostor as la cartomancienne
- Husband for Sale as Ms Reinhof
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
- Resurrection as Kitajewa
- The Queen of Spades as La comtesse Anna Feodotovna Tomski
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
- The Two Orphans as La Frochard
- Le Fil à la patte as La baronne du Verger, mère de Viviane
1953
- Act of Love as Adèle Lacaud
- Traviata 53 as Zoe
- Little Boy Lost as Mother Superior
1952
- So Little Time as Madame de Malvines
- The Truth About Bebe Donge as Mme d'Ortemont
- Judgement of God as La margrave Josépha
- Son of the Hunchback as Contessa Lagardere
1950
- Tomorrow Is Too Late as Headmistress
- Dream Ballerina as Aunt
- Born of Unknown Father as Mrs. Mussot
1949
- Manon as Saleswoman
1948
- The Queen's Lover as la duchesse d'Albuquerque
- Paris 1900 as Self (archive footage)
- Just a Big Simple Girl as Aunt Edmée
- The Storm Within as Tante Léo
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 Phantom Baron as La comtesse de Saint-Helie
- Le Voyageur de la Toussaint as Gérardine Éloi
- The Wolf of the Malveneurs as Magda de Malveneur
1942
- Patricia as Mademoiselle Pressac, aunt Laurie
- The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock as Mademoiselle Lebeau
- Soyez les bienvenus as Madame Boisleroi
- L'Appel du bled as Madame Darbois
1941
- Her First Affair as The director of the orphanage
1940
- The French Way as Madame Ancelot
- From Mayerling to Sarajevo as Archduchess Marie-Thérèse
- The Man Who Seeks the Truth as Adrienne
1939
- Behind the Facade as Mrs. Bernier, wife of the President
- The End of the Day as Marthe Chabert
1938
- Hatred as Mme Mollenard
- Êtes-vous jalouse ? as Gabrielle Brunois
- Mother Love as Adrienne
- The Shanghai Drama as College director
- A Foolish Maiden as Gisèle's mother
- Monsieur Breloque a disparu as Baroness Granger
1937
- L'amour veille as Madame de Juvigny
- The Lie of Nina Petrovna as Baroness Engern
- Southern Carrier as La mère
- Woman of Malacca as Lady Patricia Brandmore
1936
- Mayerling as Empress Élisabeth
- Samson as la marquise d'Andeline
- Forty Little Mothers as Mme Granval, the director