Thérèse Dorny
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 207. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
French actress Thérèse Dorny (1891-1976) got a great success with 'L'École des cocottes', which she performed three times in 1918, 1920, and 1923. At the start of sound cinema in France, she had a rich career in film acting, in particular in comedies such as Cognasse (Louis Mercanton, 1932).
Thérèse Dorny was born Thérèse Jeanne Longo-Dorni in Paris in 1891. Dorny was the only child to Gaudence Jean Baptiste Marie Longo-Dorni (born 1859)] and Marie Antonia Longo-Dorni (née Junghanss, born 1865). She was befriended with teh writer Colette. In 1913 she began her career as stage actress, acting in e.g. L'Institut de Beauté by Capus at the Théâtre des Variétés. Much success she got with L'École des cocottes, which she performed three times in 1918, 1920, and 1923. At the start of sound cinema in France in 1930, she had a rich career in film acting, in particular in comedies such as Cognasse (Louis Mercanton, 1932). In cinema, she appeared mostly as supporting actress, e.g. in Knock (Roger Goupillières, Louis Jouvet, 1933), Divine (Max Ophüls, 1935), Ménilmontant (René Guisart, 1936), Un de la légion (Christian-Jaque, 1936) with Fernandel, Passé à vendre (René Pujol, 1937), Le Cantinier de la coloniale (Henry Wulschleger, 1937) with Bach, Abus de confiance (Henri Decoin, 1937) with Danielle darrieux, and Retour à l'aube (Henri Decoin, 1938) with again Danielle Darrieux. During the war years, Dorny acted a.o. in a string of Fernandel comedies, such as L'Acrobate (Jean Boyer, 1941). After the war she continued to act in supporting parts, with Decoin, with Fernandel, but also in the notorious film Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955). Her last part Dorny played as the mother of the lead Magali Noël in the Franco-Italian film Oh ! Qué mambo (John Berry, 1958). She died in Saint-Tropez in the Var in 1976. Dorny married in 1964 the painter André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884-1974), with whom she is buried in the cemetery of Saint-Tropez.
Source: French and English Wikipedia.
Thérèse Dorny
French postcard in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, no. 207. Photo: Comoedia, Paris.
French actress Thérèse Dorny (1891-1976) got a great success with 'L'École des cocottes', which she performed three times in 1918, 1920, and 1923. At the start of sound cinema in France, she had a rich career in film acting, in particular in comedies such as Cognasse (Louis Mercanton, 1932).
Thérèse Dorny was born Thérèse Jeanne Longo-Dorni in Paris in 1891. Dorny was the only child to Gaudence Jean Baptiste Marie Longo-Dorni (born 1859)] and Marie Antonia Longo-Dorni (née Junghanss, born 1865). She was befriended with teh writer Colette. In 1913 she began her career as stage actress, acting in e.g. L'Institut de Beauté by Capus at the Théâtre des Variétés. Much success she got with L'École des cocottes, which she performed three times in 1918, 1920, and 1923. At the start of sound cinema in France in 1930, she had a rich career in film acting, in particular in comedies such as Cognasse (Louis Mercanton, 1932). In cinema, she appeared mostly as supporting actress, e.g. in Knock (Roger Goupillières, Louis Jouvet, 1933), Divine (Max Ophüls, 1935), Ménilmontant (René Guisart, 1936), Un de la légion (Christian-Jaque, 1936) with Fernandel, Passé à vendre (René Pujol, 1937), Le Cantinier de la coloniale (Henry Wulschleger, 1937) with Bach, Abus de confiance (Henri Decoin, 1937) with Danielle darrieux, and Retour à l'aube (Henri Decoin, 1938) with again Danielle Darrieux. During the war years, Dorny acted a.o. in a string of Fernandel comedies, such as L'Acrobate (Jean Boyer, 1941). After the war she continued to act in supporting parts, with Decoin, with Fernandel, but also in the notorious film Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955). Her last part Dorny played as the mother of the lead Magali Noël in the Franco-Italian film Oh ! Qué mambo (John Berry, 1958). She died in Saint-Tropez in the Var in 1976. Dorny married in 1964 the painter André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884-1974), with whom she is buried in the cemetery of Saint-Tropez.
Source: French and English Wikipedia.