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| Motion Picture Classic, September, 1923 |
In honor of Bastille Day, here is tres belle French actress Renée Adorée. Her parents were circus performers, and she toured Europe before World War One. After the war, she went to Australia to do a dance act, and there she made her first movie. She came to the US soon after and performed in stage revues.
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| New York Tribune, 27-July-1921 |
In 1919 she performed in Oh, What a Girl! on Broadway. Note that her name is listed in the "Brilliant Cast."
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| Photoplay, May, 1920 |
By 1920 she was appearing in American films. I doubt she was a member of the Folies Bergere. I think this is a particularly pretty picture.
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| Photoplay, August, 1920 |
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| Motion Picture News, 08-December-1923 |
During 1923, she signed with Louis B Mayer's Metro Pictures. She was in a serious auto accident which delayed production of Reginald Barker's Women Who Wait, which I think was released as Women Who Give.
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| Pictures and Picturegoer, April, 1924 |
In 1924, Metro merged with Goldwyn to create M-G-M.
This caption says "She's as French as her name implies."
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| listal.com |
In 1925, Renée Adorée appeared in her most famous movie, the war film The Big Parade. The movie was a major success.
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| Motion Picture Magazine, March, 1929 |
Renée Adorée and a bunny. It should be a French Lop.
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| listal.com |
She made three successful talkies at M-G-M but came down with tuberculosis while shooting The Call of the Flesh with Ramon Novarro. She finished the movie, but never worked again. She died in 1933 at the age of 35.
