Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery, Neuilly, France
Occupations
Actress
singer
Years active
1909–1975
Spouse
Sacha Guitry
(m. 1919; div. 1932)
Yvonne Printemps (French:[ivɔnpʁɛ̃tɑ̃]; born Yvonne Wigniolle; 25 July 1894 – 19 January 1977) was a French singer and actress who achieved stardom on stage and screen in France and internationally.
Printemps went on the stage in Paris at the age of 12, and at 21 she was singled out by the actor, director and playwright Sacha Guitry as a leading lady. In 1919 they were married, and worked closely together until 1932, when they divorced. Printemps never remarried, but had a personal and professional partnership with the actor Pierre Fresnay which lasted until his death in 1975.
As a performer, Printemps was famed for the quality of her singing voice and for her personal charm. Among those who composed for her were André Messager, Reynaldo Hahn, Noël Coward and Francis Poulenc. Her voice could have led her to an operatic career, but guided by Guitry she concentrated on operette and other types of musical show, along with non-musical plays and films. In addition to her many successes in Paris she appeared to great acclaim in the West End of London, and on Broadway in New York.
YvonnePrintemps (French: [ivɔn pʁɛ̃tɑ̃]; born Yvonne Wigniolle; 25 July 1894 – 19 January 1977) was a French singer and actress who achieved stardom...
actresses whose careers he furthered. Probably his best-known wife was YvonnePrintemps to whom he was married between 1919 and 1932. Guitry's plays range...
Fanny (1932) and César (1936). In 1932, YvonnePrintemps's marriage to Sacha Guitry broke up, and Printemps became Fresnay's personal and professional...
French-Italian historical musical film directed by Marcel Achard and starring YvonnePrintemps, Pierre Fresnay and Jacques Charon. It portrays the life of the nineteenth...
by Sarah Bernhardt, María Félix, Clara Kimball Young, Theda Bara, YvonnePrintemps, Alla Nazimova, Greta Garbo, Micheline Presle, Francesca Bertini, Isabelle...
the early life of the composer, and was to star Guitry and his wife, YvonnePrintemps, the latter en travesti as the young Mozart. Hahn agreed, and composed...
Works related to Au clair de la lune at Wikisource Media related to Au clair de la lune at Wikimedia Commons Listen 1931 recording by YvonnePrintemps....
Georges Poujouly Perrette Pradier Albert Préjean Micheline Presle YvonnePrintemps Wojciech Pszoniak Bruno Putzulu Pierre-Loup Rajot Blanche Ravalec Camille...
Diaboliques 14 Peter Finch 60 UK Actor Network Sunday Bloody Sunday 18 YvonnePrintemps 82 France Actress, Singer Le Voyage en Amérique The Duel 26 Margaret...
written between in the early decades of the century for such stars as YvonnePrintemps. Progressing far beyond the comparatively frivolous musicals and sentimental...
Weather Service recording stations, the even remained unofficial. Died: YvonnePrintemps, 82, French singer, stage and film actress Jimmy Carter was sworn in...
comedy film directed by Henri Lavorel and starring Pierre Fresnay, YvonnePrintemps and Jean Brochard. The film contrasts the prosperity of France and...
curandera (d. 1985) July 25 Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974) YvonnePrintemps, French singer and actress (d. 1977) July 26 – Aldous Huxley, English...
Later in 1936 his O Mistress Mine was a light Ruritanian vehicle for YvonnePrintemps. He returned to farce with Banana Ridge (1938) in which Robertson Hare...
1950 film La Valse de Paris by Marcel Achard, where she was played by YvonnePrintemps. Elizabeth Forbes in Grove Music Online (2009) gives 1922, but the...
Coward's musical play Conversation Piece (1934) opposite Coward and YvonnePrintemps at His Majesty's Theatre and afterwards at the 44th Street Theatre...
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