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Ludmilla Pitoëff (December 25, 1896 – September 15, 1951) was a Russian-born French stage actress. She also appeared in London and New York, as well as in some films.
Ludmilla Pitoëff (December 25, 1896 – September 15, 1951) was a Russian-born French stage actress. She also appeared in London and New York, as well as in some films.
Biography
Born in Tiflis, Russia on December 25, 1896, she married Georges Pitoëff and began appearing with his company in 1917 at venues in Paris including the Théatre des Arts, the Comédie des Champs-Elysées, the Vieux Colombier, and Théâtre des Mathurins. She made her London stage debut in 1930 playing Jeanne in '' Saint Jeanne'' (reportedly George Bernard Shaw’s favorite actress to play the role), then as Marguerite Gautier in ''La Dame aux Camélias''. She went to the United States after her husband’s death in 1939 and in 1944 made her Broadway debut as Madame Fisher in ''The House in Paris
''The House in Paris'' is Elizabeth Bowen's fifth novel. It is set in France and Great Britain following World War I, and its action takes place on a single February day in a house in Paris. In that house, two young children—Henrietta and Leopo ...
''. She also appeared in films including ''La danseus rouge'', ''Mollenard'' and ''Les eaux troubles''. "Pitoëff, Ludmilla (1896–1951)." '' Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages'', edited by Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer, vol. 2, Yorkin Publications, 2007, pp. 1518-1519. Gale eBooks. Accessed 6 December 2021.
Pitoeff died on September 15, 1951.
Further reading
* Aniouta Pitoëff, ''Ludmilla, ma mère : vie de Ludmilla et de Georges Pitoëff'', Julliard, 1955, 296 pp.References
1896 births 1951 deaths French actresses Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France {{France-actor-stub