1. Adrienne Lecouvreur, born Adrienne Couvreur, was a French actress, considered by many as the greatest of her time.
11 Facts About Adrienne Lecouvreur
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Adrienne Lecouvreur's story was used as an inspiration for playwrights, composers and poets.
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Adrienne Lecouvreur's father, Robert Couvreur, was a hat maker who, in the hope of more lucrative opportunities, moved with his family to Paris.
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Young Adrienne Lecouvreur found her own refuge watching rehearsals in the Comedie Francaise, and joining the rehearsals of a young, clandestine theater troupe that met in the back store of a grocer's shop on the rue Ferou.
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Adrienne Lecouvreur premiered at the house of Madame de Gue, wife of a president of Parlement.
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Shortly after Baron D's death, Adrienne Lecouvreur left Luneville, signing a contract with another theatre under the protection of the Duke of Lorraine; the theatre at Strasbourg.
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Adrienne Lecouvreur chose Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon's Electre and Moliere's George Dandin in the role of Angelique.
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Adrienne Lecouvreur was one of the first actresses who favored a more natural, realistic and less declamatory style.
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Adrienne Lecouvreur made her first appearance at the Comedie Francaise wearing a simple Greek tunic in white satin to play Crebillon's Electre.
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Adrienne Lecouvreur's life became the inspiration for a tragic 1849 drama Adrienne Lecouvreur by Scribe and Legouve on which Francesco Cilea's opera Adriana Lecouvreur and the operetta Adrienne by Walter Goetze are based.
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In 1928, MGM Studios filmed Dream of Love, based on the Scribe and Legouve play, Adrienne Lecouvreur, starring Joan Crawford and Nils Asther.