Marie Kalff
{{Short description|Dutch actress (1874–1959)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Marie Kalff
| image = Marie Kalff - Onze Tooneelspelers (1912) - 1.jpg
| alt = A white woman with short dark wavy hair in a circle frame.
| caption = Marie Kalff, from a 1912 publication
| other_names = Marie Lenormand (after marriage)
| birth_name = Johanna Maria Kalff
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1874|07|29}}
| birth_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands
| death_date = {{death date and age|1959|10|19|1874|07|29}}
| death_place = Paris, France
| occupation = Actress
| years_active =
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| spouse(s) = Henri-René Lenormand
| relatives = René Lenormand (father-in-law)
}}
Marie Kalff (born Johanna Maria Kalff; 29 July 1874 – 19 October 1959), was a Dutch-born actress, based in Paris.
Early life
Kalff was born in Amsterdam, the daughter of Antonius Kalff and Ellegonda Duranda Rutgers van der Loeff.{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Registration Johanna Maria Kalff on July 29, 1874|url=https://www.openarch.nl/saa:e1d22d75-776a-444b-bee8-ed4739b3b3b6/en|access-date=2021-04-03|website=Open Archives|language=en}} Her father was a bank director and merchant. She spent some of her childhood in Java, where her father was working.
Career
Kalff moved to Paris and was an actress at the Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau and the Théâtre de l'Œuvre there. She was seen regularly on the Paris stage from 1904 to 1929,{{Cite web|title=Marie Kalff|url=https://www.lesarchivesduspectacle.net/?IDX_Personne=50683|access-date=2021-04-03|website=Les Archives du Spectacle|language=fr}} and was noted especially for interpreting the works of Paul Claudel for the stage.{{Cite web|last=Koffeman|first=Maaike|title=Claudel and Holland|url=https://societe.paul-claudel.net/en/claudel-and-holland/|access-date=2021-04-03|website=Société Paul Claudel|language=en-GB}}{{Cite book|last=Vagianos|first=Sylvia Caides|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uBi199W0tbIC&q=Marie+Kalff&pg=PA78|title=Paul Claudel and La Nouvelle Revue Française (1909-1918)|date=1979|publisher=Librairie Droz|isbn=978-2-600-03573-6|pages=78|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last=Fleury|first=Raphaèle|date=2011|title=La question de la dimension scénique dans la nouvelle édition Pléiade du théâtre de Paul Claudel|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45087840|journal=Bulletin de la Société Paul Claudel|issue=203|pages=20–24|jstor=45087840|issn=0037-9506}} She was also Claudel's confidante.{{Cite book|last=Claudel|first=Paul|url=http://archive.org/details/claudelontheatre0000clau|title=Claudel on the theatre|date=1972|publisher=Coral Gables, Fla. : University of Miami Press|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-87024-158-1|pages=39|via=Internet Archive}} Her gowns were also admired, and featured in theatre magazines.{{Cite journal|date=May 1908|title=Mlle Marie Kalff|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJhRAQAAMAAJ&q=Marie+Kalff&pg=RA9-PP3|journal=Le Théâtre}}{{Cite journal|date=1911|title=Semi-Annual Review of Fashions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xXkeAQAAMAAJ&q=Marie+Kalff&pg=RA1-PR18|journal=The Theatre Magazine|volume=14|pages=xviii}}
Kalff also appeared in two silent films directed by Émile Couzinet, La poupée japonaise (1911, short) and L'auberge sanglante (1913), and in one sound picture, Le Bout de la route (1949). In 1950 she traveled to California with her husband, while he was giving a series of lectures on French drama.{{Cite news|date=1950-07-17|title=Dramatist to Give 4 Mills Lectures|pages=20|work=Oakland Tribune|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75026123/dramatist-to-give-4-mills-lectures/|access-date=2021-04-03|via=Newspapers.com}}
Dutch artist Kees van Dongen painted Kalff's portrait in 1905, with the title "Le peignoir rose". The painting sold at Christie's in 2014 for €169,500.{{Cite web|title=Kees van Dongen (Delfshaven 1877-1968 Monte Carlo)|url=https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5827274|access-date=2021-04-03|website=Christie's|language=en}}
Personal life
Kalff married French playwright Henri-René Lenormand. Lenormand died in 1951;{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=1951-02-18|title=Lenormand Dead; French Dramatist; Author of 'Simoun' and 'Rates,' Which Received Wide Acclaim, Wrote for Grand Guignol|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/02/18/archives/lenormand-dead-french-dramatist-author-of-simoun-and-rates-which.html|access-date=2021-04-03|issn=0362-4331}} Kalff died in 1959. She left a collection of papers to the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal.{{Cite book|url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39510507g|title=[Fonds Henri-René Lenormand, auteur dramatique] : 1882-1951|date=1882|location=Paris}}{{Cite web|date=1961-01-01|title=Chronique|url=https://bbf.enssib.fr/consulter/bbf-1961-09-0491-001|access-date=2021-04-03|website=Bulletin des bibliothéques de France|language=fr}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=2695933}}
- [https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/16687002 Ton poème sera écrit par Marie Kalff], 1909; in the collection of the Beinecke Library
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=VSE-AQAAMAAJ&dq=Marie+Kalff&pg=PA260 "Marie Kalff"] Eigen Haard (1908): 260-264. An article in Dutch with multiple photographs of Kalff.
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Category:Actresses from Amsterdam
Category:Dutch stage actresses
Category:Dutch silent film actresses
Category:20th-century Dutch actresses