Mary Marquet

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

47

Gender

Female

Birthday

1895-04-14

Day of death

1979-08-29 (84 years old)

Place of Birth

Leningrad, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]

Mary Marquet

Biography

Mary Marquet (born Micheline Marguerite Delphine Marquet; 14 April 1895 – 29 August 1979) was a French stage and film actress. Marquet came from a family of artists: her parents were actors, an aunt was a star dancer at the Paris Opera, and another was an official at the Comédie-Française. She entered the National Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art in 1913 and studied under Paul Mounet. She failed her final exams, but was immediately engaged in the company of Sarah Bernhardt, who was a great friend of the family. She went on play alongside her in The Eugene Morand cathedral. She became established with her role in L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, whose mistress she became from 1915 to his death in 1918. She made her film debut in 1914 in a silent film, Les Frères ennemis, which was never finished. Her first major film role was in Sappho, produced by Léonce Perret in 1932. After World War I, she joined the Comédie-Française in 1923 where she stayed for over twenty years, before moving to the boulevard Theatre. During the World War II, throughout the occupation, she sought the protection of German officers to protect her son who had told her of his intention to join the Resistance. The response was his arrest and deportation to Buchenwald concentration camp where he died aged 21. This was possibly the cause of her problems at the time of the Liberation when, due to her alleged relations with the enemy, Marquet was arrested and sent to Drancy and then to Fresnes. She was later released for lack of evidence. In the 1950s, she turned to poetry recital, while continuing her career in theater on the boulevards. She worked for ORTF in the Maigret episodes of Les Cinq Dernières Minutes and Les Saintes Chéries and in the television adaptation of Lucien Leuwen, the novel by Stendhal. Parallel to her acting career, as an antiquarian she ran a stand for many years at the Swiss Village, an important antique market in Paris where she demonstrated her skills as a saleswoman, mixing theatrical memorabilia with commercial interests. Among her most successful parts in over forty films, were her roles in, Landru in 1962, Claude Chabrol, La Grande Vadrouille in 1966 by Gérard Oury, and Casanova in 1975 by Federico Fellini. After these three minor parts she played important roles in La vie de château (1966) the mother of Philippe Noiret and the stepmother of Catherine Deneuve and the Le malin plaisir (1975) with Claude Jade and Anny Duperey. Mary Marquet and Victor Francen on their wedding day in 1934. Her first lover was Edmond Rostand around 1915, living together for three years. In 1920 she married Maurice Escande, the future director of the house of Molière, ending in divorce in 1921, before meeting Firmin Gémier, the director of the new Théâtre National Populaire, who was still married but whose wife was barren. In 1922, Marquet gave birth to their son. Before the death of Gémier in 1933, Marquet became the mistress of the president of the then Council, André Tardieu, in a semi-official liaison. Having broken up with Tardieu, she married Victor Francen. The couple separated after seven years together. Marquet died of heart attack at the age of 84 in her apartment in the Rue Carpeaux, She is buried in Montmartre Cemetery. Source: Article "Mary Marquet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

  • Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

  • Numéro un

    Numéro un

  • Midi trente

    Midi trente

  • Samedi soir

    Samedi soir

  • Le polygame

    Le polygame

  • Bluebeard

    Bluebeard

  • Lettre ouverte

    Lettre ouverte

  • Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

    Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

  • Phèdre

    Phèdre

  • Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin

    Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin

  • Un curé de choc

    Un curé de choc

  • De Medeminaars

    De Medeminaars

  • Par ici la monnaie

    Par ici la monnaie

  • Sapho

    Sapho

  • Les Hommes en blanc

    Les Hommes en blanc

  • Love at the Top

    Love at the Top

  • Drôles de phénomènes

    Drôles de phénomènes

  • Drôle de noce

    Drôle de noce

  • Les Dossiers de l'Agence O

    Les Dossiers de l'Agence O

  • Fellini's Casanova

    Fellini's Casanova

  • Paul et Virginie

    Paul et Virginie

  • Quelle sacrée soirée

    Quelle sacrée soirée

  • The Nabob Affair

    The Nabob Affair

  • Forbidden to the Public

    Forbidden to the Public

  • The Gardener of Argenteuil

    The Gardener of Argenteuil

  • Royal Affairs in Versailles

    Royal Affairs in Versailles

  • Les Combinards

    Les Combinards

  • A Matter of Resistance

    A Matter of Resistance

  • Bruno: Sunday's Child

    Bruno: Sunday's Child

  • The Marvelous Visit

    The Marvelous Visit

  • We Will Go to Deauville

    We Will Go to Deauville

  • Une fille cousue de fil blanc

    Une fille cousue de fil blanc

  • Law of the Streets

    Law of the Streets

  • Piédalu fait des miracles

    Piédalu fait des miracles

  • Operation Lady Marlene

    Operation Lady Marlene

  • Lucien Leuwen

    Lucien Leuwen

  • The Marriage Came Tumbling Down

    The Marriage Came Tumbling Down

  • Maid in Paris

    Maid in Paris

  • Evil Pleasure

    Evil Pleasure

  • La visite de la vieille dame

    La visite de la vieille dame

  • Boys and Girls

    Boys and Girls

  • Midnight... Quai de Bercy

    Midnight... Quai de Bercy

  • Foyer perdu

    Foyer perdu

  • Sister Angele's Secret

    Sister Angele's Secret

  • Le 84 prend des vacances

    Le 84 prend des vacances

  • Un jour avec vous

    Un jour avec vous

  • The Clairvoyant

    The Clairvoyant