RACHEL, French Actress

räshĕlˈ, stage name of Élisa Félixālēˈzä fālēksˈ, 1821–58, French actress, b. Switzerland. Exploited by her father in her childhood, she sang in the streets with her sister Sarah. In Paris, showing great promise at the Théâtre Molière school, she entered the Gymnase (1833) and in 1838 made her debut with great success at the Comédie Française in Corneille's Horace. In 1841–42, after a sensational success in London, Rachel gained acclaim throughout Europe. She was applauded in all the major works of Racine and Corneille, Phèdre (1843) being her best role. She created the title role in Scribe's Adrienne Lecouvreur in 1849. Rachel appeared in the United States with fair success in 1855 (she knew little English) and on this visit aggravated the tuberculosis that led to her death three years later. Regarded as the greatest actress of her day, her clear diction, rhythmic speech, and economy of gesture contrasted with the exaggerated style of the time.

See M. Cost, I, Rachel (1957).

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Rachel Crothers: A Research and Production Sourcebook
Book by Colette Lindroth, James Lindroth; Greenwood, 1995
Subjects: Crothers, Rachel--1878-1958--Bibliography, Crothers, Rachel--1878-1958--Criticism And Interpretation, Crothers, Rachel--1878-1958--Dramatic Production, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century
...Goes to Paris to direct French translation of Mary...July, at the age of 80. RACHEL CROTHERS Life and Career...Stanhope-Wheatcroft she appeared as an actress with several New York...straightforwardly Germanic, Emile a Frenchman more than a little amused...LEONIE BRUNE: an aspiring actress, jealous of Frank and...
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French Theatre in New York: A List of Plays, 1899-1939
Book by Hamilton Mason; Columbia University Press, 1940
Subjects: French Drama--Bibliography, Theater--New York (N.Y.)
...groups headed by celebrated French actresses and actors. Sarah Bernhardt...comparisons which the French actress always survived. In 1913...Charlotte Wiehe, a Danish actress, came to play in French in October, 1903. Her vivacious...
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French Women Playwrights of the Twentieth Century: A Checklist
Book by Cecilia Beach; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: French Drama--Women Authors--Bibliography, Women And Literature--France--Bibliography
...mention those who were actresses . When I began my doctoral...had been published on French women playwrights. There...DORCEY Mme . French actress at the Comedie Francaise...Aurore Domergue, Mme . French actress in Rouen, Brussels...
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French Lessons: A Memoir
Book by Alice Kaplan; University of Chicago Press, 1993
Subjects: French Philology--Study And Teaching--United States, French Teachers--United States--Biography, Kaplan, Alice Yaeger
...The movie begins with lovers, a French actress and a Japanese architect. In the...unexploded bomb. She: "You speak French well." He: "Dont I. I.m happy youve...trance. "When I lose my words in French," I wrote, "a radical transformation...
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French Women Playwrights before the Twentieth Century: A Checklist
Book by Cecilia Beach; Greenwood Press, 1994
Subjects: French Drama--Women Authors--Bibliography, Women And Literature--France--Bibliography
...bicentennial of the French Revolution. SACD...LAILLIER . Lyon, 1932- Actress; journalist, novelist...BELLAY Jenny . Actress. Du cotee de...KLECKER see also French Women Playwrights...Camille see French Women Playwrights...Marseille, c. 1936- Actress. Pepsie comedy...
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The Otherness of French Actresses
Journal article by Michel W. Pharand; English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol. 49, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The French Actress and Her English Audience (Book)--Book reviews
...historical circumstances behind the visits to London of eight French actresses "whose English careers, when laid end to end, form a...specialist in "social gaiety and erotic nuance"; tragedienne Rachel Felix; grande coquette Madame Plessy; pipe-smoking Virginie...
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Jews, Modernity, and the Fiction of Ben-Levi
Journal article by Maurice Samuels; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 34, 2006
Subjects: Ben-Levi, G.--Works, French Jews--Works, Jewish literature--Criticism and interpretation, Jews, French--Works, Short stories--Criticism and interpretation
...Schwarzfuchs titles his study of nineteenth-century French Jewry, Du Juif a lisraelite: Histoire dune mutation...charities and hospitals. (16) Famous Jews such as the actress Rachel Felix, the composer Fromental Halevy, and the jurist...
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Disruptive Acts. the New Woman in Fin-De-Siecle France
Journal article by Rachel L. Mesch; French Forum, Vol. 30, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France (Book)--Book reviews
...Fin-De-Siecle France. by Rachel L. Mesch Mary Louise...beloved, world-renowned actress Sarah Bernhardt. These...often conflated in the French imagination. In part...whose contributions to French feminist history have...recognize them as a group. Rachel L. Mesch Barnard College...
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Pierre Goldman and the Beginnings of Jeune Litterature Juive
Journal article by Thomas Nolden; French Forum, Vol. 28, 2003
...complacent concert of the French nation nostalgically...a non-Jewish Belgian actress and a Jew of Italian...identities readable to gentile French audiences, and to provide...79-88, here p. 82. (12) Rachel Ertel, "Une litterature...writings by contemporary French-Jewish writers see Thomas...
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Leff, Lisa Moses. Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century France
Journal article by Maurice Samuels; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 36, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century France (Book)--Book reviews
...the composer Fromenthal Halevy, the Saint-Simonian Gustave DEichtal, and the actress Rachel--who asserted their Jewishness theatrically to remind a receptive French public of the Revolutions promise to liberate all peoples. The second half of...
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Nous Vous Aimons: Jane Birkin Is Awe-Inspiring Compared to Today's Botox-Riddled Sex Goddesses, Finds Rachel Halliburton
Magazine article by Rachel Halliburton; New Statesman, Vol. 134, March 14, 2005
Subjects: Actors--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Actresses--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Birkin, Jane--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...Halliburton. by Rachel Halliburton Jane...sex symbol, chanteuse, actress and, latterly, French icon--confesses early...was playing, so the actress said: Dont you think...is the iconoclastic French musician who continues...
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Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914
Magazine article by Jeremy Black; History Today, Vol. 58, August 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 (Book)--Book reviews
...writes effortlessly about the range of French life. Take, for example, his account of...as is the interplay between writers and actresses, as the former searched for a particular...in performances. Thus, we read of Elisa-Rachel Felix who proved a brilliant tragic actress...
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Russian Enigma
Magazine article by Rachel Polonsky; New Statesman, Vol. 133, June 7, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Mystery of Olga Chekhova: Was Hitler's Favourite Actress a Russian Spy? (Book)--Book reviews
...Russian Enigma. by Rachel Polonsky The Mystery...was Hitlers favourite actress a Russian spy? Antony...hundred popular German and French films, including the...granddaughter Vera, also an actress, was courted by Elvis...and the Berlin wall. Rachel Polonsky is the author...
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Stormy Weather: How a Climate of Rebellion, in Theatre and Society, Wrought the Death of Burlesque in 1969
Magazine article by Rachel Shteir; American Theatre, Vol. 20, April 2003
Subjects: Clothing and dress--Analysis, Nudity--Social aspects, Striptease--Analysis, Striptease--Social aspects, Theater--Social aspects
...burlesque in 1969 by Rachel Shteir On the morning...McNallys 1968 Sweet Eros, the actress Sally Kirkland, who would later...Second Avenue. A pun on the French phrase "Oh quel cul tas" (oh...Melanie Jackson Agency, L.L.C. Rachel Shteir is the head of dramaturgy...
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Who Is Guy De Cointet?
Magazine article; Artforum International, Vol. 45, Summer 2007
Subjects: American artists--Appreciation, American artists--Works, Cointet, Guy de--Appreciation, Cointet, Guy de--Works
...even cast Viva, a Warhol actress, in The Paintings of...disturbing to me, and to Rachel, to Maria, to Dolly...formative influence), French theory, Anglo middlebrow...castle and came from a French military family--that...books and books of child actresses, but for some reason...
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The Gossip's Now over Rachel
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), June 18, 2004
...By Robin Walker Its easy to see why young Canadian actress Rachel McAdams has managed to make that elusive breakthrough...every sense of the word: etiquette classes, ballet, French and Latin studies. But she has a passion for painting...
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Rachel Weisz as Princess Nefertiti HHH(The Mummy Returns, 2001)
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), May 30, 2004
...as well as modern heroines like Rachel Weisz, Keira Knightley and Milla...who had seen the model-turned-actress shine in French and German films. And following...classic Hammer horror She, the actress played the immortal Ayesha...
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Weisz Move for Love-Split Neil Weisz Move; NOW HE'S FALLEN FOR HIS CO-STAR RACHEL
Newspaper article by Matthew Wright; The Mirror (London, England), April 14, 1998
...traumatic time." Its also the first romance Rachel has had for some time. She briefly dated...Funeral. She will play "a world- famous actress" who falls for foppish bookseller Hugh...footballs are being launched by a posh French fashion company to cash in on World Cup...
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Super Alice Is a Model Winner from Pinner; 18-YEAR-OLD SCHOOLGIRL CONGRATULATED BY RACHEL HUNTER AS SHE WINS TV CONTEST
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 5, 2005
...mistake, you havent really won." But Rachel Hunter, underwear model and judge on the...create a sensation. In 1992, 18-year-old actress Jane March became known as the "Sinner from Pinner" when she appeared in an explicit French film.
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LONGFORD'S OTHER LADY; Tonight's C4 Drama about the Peer Who Campaigned for the Release of Myra Hindley Reopens Old Wounds - and, Says Actress Lindsay Duncan, Creates Some New Ones for the Cast
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 26, 2006
Subjects: Actors, Actresses, Mirren, Helen
...eight children, including the authors Rachel Billington and Antonia Fraser, wife of...once described Duncan as "one of the top actresses of her generation, easily as good as Helen...Dangereuses and Robert Lindsay in 1991s GBH French connection: with John Thaw in the 1993...
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Rachel , French Actress
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RACHEL , French actress rashel , stage...faleks , 1821 58, French actress, b. Switzerland...success in London, Rachel gained acclaim throughout...as the greatest actress of her day, her...See M. Cost, I, Rachel (1957...


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