Hélène Darly (born Éliane Émilienne Pauline Pilate; 4 May 1900 – 17 May 1994) was a French film actress whose career was most prominent in the
silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) ...
era.
Biography
Hélène Darly was born Éliane Émilienne Pauline Pilate in the
11th arrondissement of Paris[data.bnf.fr](_blank)
Retrieved 9 November 2018. and began her film career in the early 1920s. She soon became known for her roles as Berthe Janin in
Camille de Morlhon
Camille de Morlhon (19 February 1869 - 24 November 1952) was a French film director.
Filmography
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* 1908 : '' Benvenuto Cellini''
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's ''Daughter of the People'' (1920), as Régine de Bettigny in
Alexandre Volkoff's ''The House of Mystery'' (1923), and Marie Didier in Serge Nadejdine's ''Le chiffonnier de Paris'' (1924). She made several appearances after the transition to sound film, then later retired from the industry. On 14 October 1930, Darly married actor
Marcel Vibert
Marcel Vibert (2 November 1883 – 11 June 1959) was a French film actor. Vibert worked primarily in the French film industry, but in the late 1920s he also appeared in several British silent films including ''Moulin Rouge'' and ''Champagne''.
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Paris Archives
5th arrondissement. Marriage certificate No. 1181. 1930. Retrieved 9 November 2018. She died in Conches-sur-Gondoire, Seine-et-Marne
Seine-et-Marne () is a department in the Île-de-France region in Northern France. Named after the rivers Seine and Marne, it is the region's largest department with an area of 5,915 square kilometres (2,284 square miles); it roughly covers its ...
, in 1994 at age 94.
Selected filmography
*'' Face à l'Océan'' (1920)
*'' Little Jacques'' (1923)
*'' The House of Mystery'' (1923)
*'' 600,000 Francs a Month'' (1926)
*''Hai-Tang
''Hai-Tang'' is a 1930 British-German drama film directed by Richard Eichberg and Jean Kemm and starring Anna May Wong, Marcel Vibert and Robert Ancelin.St. Pierre p.83 It was made at Elstree Studios as the French-language version of ''The Flame ...
'' (1930)
* ''Atlantis
Atlantis ( grc, Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, , island of Atlas) is a fictional island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works '' Timaeus'' and '' Critias'', wherein it represents the antagonist naval power that b ...
'' (1930)
References
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1900 births
1994 deaths
French film actresses
French silent film actresses
Actresses from Paris
20th-century French actresses
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