Charlotte Clasis

{{Short description|French actress}}

{{Infobox person

| name =Charlotte Clasis

| image =File:Charlotte Clasis par Charles Gir.jpg

| imagesize =

| caption = A 1922 caricature.

| birth_date = 20 September 1891

| birth_place = Caen, Calvados, France

| death_date = 17 April 1974 (aged 82)

| death_place = Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

| othername =

| occupation =Actress

| yearsactive = 1925–1952 (film)

}}

Charlotte Clasis (1891–1974) was a French theatre and film actress.{{cite web | url=https://www.unifrance.org/annuaires/personne/127213/charlotte-clasis | title=Charlotte Clasis - Unifrance }}Goble p.152 & 262 Early in her career she poses as a model for the artist Auguste Renoir and was later cast by his son Jean Renoir in two of his films the 1925 silent The Whirlpool of Fate (1925) and the poetic realist The Human Beast (1938).Merigeau

Selected filmography

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Bibliography

  • Crisp, Colin. French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 1, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2015.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Merigeau, Pascal . Jean Renoir: A Biography. Hachette, 2017.