1. Colette D'Arville was a French soprano and musical theatre actress who had an international career in operas, concerts, and musicals from the 1920s through the 1940s.
26 Facts About Colette D'Arville
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Colette D'Arville was active with the Opera-Comique in Paris during the 1930s, and periodically appeared in operas with American companies from 1931 to 1942 in addition to performing on American radio and in concerts and recitals.
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Colette D'Arville was particularly associated with the title role in Bizet's Carmen.
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Colette D'Arville was romantically involved with composer Deems Taylor and tenor Giovanni Martinelli.
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Colette D'Arville was born Marie Marthe Cescosse in the French Basque Country to Emile and Jeanne Cescosse in 1902.
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Colette D'Arville began her performance career in Europe using the stage name Colette Etchery.
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Colette D'Arville made her American theatre debut as Claudette Pernier in the Roger Wolfe Kahn, Joseph Meyer, and Irving Caesar musical Here's Howe which premiered at the Shubert Theatre in Boston on 23 April 1928, for a week of tryout performances.
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Colette D'Arville publicized Linit Bath Soaps in 1932 radio commercials for the product.
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Colette D'Arville toured the United States as Carmen with the Cosmopolitan Grand Opera Company in 1932, earning rave reviews in The Washington Post when the troupe performed at the National Theatre in January of that year:.
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Colette D'Arville was a gay, bewitching, whimsical coquette in Bizet's opera Carmen last night when an appreciative audience enjoyed her wiles and witcheries and realistic portrayal of the cigarette girl of Old Seville.
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Colette D'Arville, singing the role in French, was entirely in her element.
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Colette D'Arville's voice is a dramatic soprano with coloratura range and vivid in interpretation.
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Colette D'Arville's acting was of a high order and an attractive personality enhanced the thrilling operatic picture presented by her.
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In 1935, Colette D'Arville starred opposite Carlos Gardel in the musical film Tango Bar as Chichita which was directed by John Reinhardt for Paramount Pictures.
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In 1937 Colette D'Arville portrayed Carmen at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.
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Tenor Giovanni Martinelli and Colette D'Arville were lovers during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Colette D'Arville was simultaneously involved with composer Deems Taylor, who she met in 1934.
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Colette D'Arville wasn't singing too well, no, but that wasn't the problem I'm talking about.
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Colette D'Arville was a pretty girl, and Martinelli was head over heels about her.
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Colette D'Arville's range was still okay, but there was a hardness in his tone from then on.
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Colette D'Arville was visiting family in Paris during World War II when the German Army invaded the city in June 1940.
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Colette D'Arville succeeded in making her way to unoccupied territory, and managed to return to New York City.
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Colette D'Arville portrayed the title role in Massenet's Le jongleur de Notre-Dame with the Newark Civic Grand Opera in April 1942.
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Colette D'Arville volunteered her talents for performances at the American Theatre Wing's Stage Door Canteen during World War II.
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Colette D'Arville died in New York City in 1944 at the age of 42.
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Colette D'Arville had one son, Gaston Etienne Cescosse, who was born out of wedlock.