Lucy Gérard
{{short description|French actress (1872–1941)}}
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| name = Lucy Gérard
| image = GÉRARD, Lucie SIP. 97-6. Photo Reutlinger.jpg
| alt = A closeup handcolored photograph of a white woman with her wavy hair in a bouffant updo, wearing pearls and light-colored lace
| caption = Lucy Gérard, by Léopold-Émile Reutlinger
| other_names = Lucie Gérard, Lucy Mareil
| birth_name = Marie-Louise Philiberte Lucy Gérard
| birth_date = 2 June 1872
| death_date = 20 November 1941
| death_place = Paris, France
| occupation = Actress
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Lucy Gérard (2 June 1872 – 20 November 1941), born Marie-Louise Philiberte Lucy Gérard, was a French actress on stage and in silent films; in her later career she was billed as Lucy Mareil.
Early life
Lucy Gérard was born in Lyon, France, on 2 June 1872. She studied with François Jules Edmond Got at the Paris Conservatoire.{{Cite journal|date=May 1896|title=Paris Novelties|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T-M_AQAAMAAJ&dq=Lucy+G%C3%A9rard&pg=PA236|journal=Munsey's Magazine|volume=15|pages=236}}
Career
File:Boldini PortraitofLucieGerard.jpg]]
File:Geneviève_Lantelme,_Delphine_Renot_&_Lucie_Gérard_-_Trait_d'Union.jpg, Delphine Renot and Lucy Gérard, in Trait d'Union (1906)]]
Gérard began acting in her teens, with her Paris debut in 1888, in the opera Isoline. She was active on the Paris stage,{{Cite journal|date=March 1897|title=Mlle. Lucy Gerard and Cleo de Merode|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4WRNAAAAYAAJ&dq=Lucy+G%C3%A9rard&pg=PA182|journal=Metropolitan Magazine|volume=5|pages=184}} including a role in La Montagne Enchantée (1897) with Jane Hading.{{Cite journal|last=Legrand|first=Camille|date=April 1897|title=Chat from Foreign Journals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMJOAQAAMAAJ&dq=Lucy+G%C3%A9rard&pg=PA368|journal=The International|volume=2|pages=368}} She was a popular subject of souvenir postcards, cigarette cards,[https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/417479 Mlle. Lucie Gerard, cigarette card], from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.[https://repository.duke.edu/catalog/f7af6811-7c0d-4986-b913-202985f45eac Mlle. Lucie Gérard, cigarette card], from the W. Duke, Sons & Co. Advertising Materials, 1880-1910 collection, Duke University Libraries. and cabinet cards, and Italian artist Giovanni Boldini made a pastel portrait of her.{{Cite web|title=Portrait de Madame Lucie Gérard by Giovanni Boldini|url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/giovanni-boldini/portrait-de-madame-lucie-gérard-zYZFHHV-wXPJZIBQBN3_eQ2|access-date=2021-04-22|website=ArtNet}}
As "Lucy Mareil", she appeared in at least a dozen French silent films, including Blessure d'amour (1916), C'est pour les orphelins! (1917), Les leçons de chant de Rigadin (1918), Madame et son filleul (1919), Chouquette et son as (1919), Les cinqs gentlemen maudits (1920), L'empereur des pauvres (1921), La flamme (1922), and Petit Ange et son pantin (1923).{{Cite book|last=Moules|first=Patrick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AErYDwAAQBAJ&dq=Lucy+Mareil&pg=PA108|title=The 9.5mm Vintage Film Encyclopaedia|date=2020-07-28|publisher=Troubador Publishing Ltd|isbn=978-1-83859-269-1|pages=108, 109, 277, 580|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Rainey|first=Buck|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vL_eCQAAQBAJ&dq=Lucy+Mareil&pg=PA68|title=Serials and Series: A World Filmography, 1912-1956|date=2015-06-08|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-0448-0|pages=68|language=en}}
Personal life
Lucy Gérard died in Paris in 1941, aged 69 years.
References
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External links
- {{IBDB name|id=41991}}
- {{IMDb name|id=0546376|name=Lucy Mareil}}
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Category:French stage actresses
Category:Conservatoire de Paris alumni