1. Marguerite Lucile Jolivet, known professionally as Rita Jolivet, was a British actress in theatre and silent films in the early 20th century.
29 Facts About Rita Jolivet
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Rita Jolivet was known in private life as the Countess Marguerita de Cippico.
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Jolivet was born on 25 September 1884 in Castleton, Richmond County, New York, one of the three children of Charles Eugene Jolivet from Carmansville, New York, United States, an owner of extensive vineyards in France, and French-born Pauline Helene Vaillant, a talented musician who retired from the concert stage after marrying in 1879.
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Rita Jolivet had a sister, Inez Henriette, and a brother, Alfred Eugene.
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Rita Jolivet's great-great-grandmother was the only member of her family to avoid the guillotine during the French Revolution.
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Rita Jolivet was the great-grandaunt of the Canadian actor Finn Wolfhard.
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Rita Jolivet's mother was the granddaughter of Jolivet's brother Alfred.
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Rita Jolivet was an intimate of the inner society circles in London and a close friend of the family of Lord Lowther, the British ambassador to Turkey.
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Rita Jolivet's sister, Leigh, was a noted violinist, who performed as Inez Henriette Jolivet.
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Rita Jolivet began her stage career as a youth, making her London debut in Much Ado About Nothing.
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Rita Jolivet played Juliet for producer William Poel of London, in Romeo and Juliet.
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Rita Jolivet was a pupil of Mademoiselle Thenaud, who had been a leading actress of the Comedie-Francaise and who was a personal palm reader to Queen Victoria.
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In 1910, Rita Jolivet was the leading lady in George Alexander's play The Eccentric Lord Comberdene.
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Rita Jolivet played the role of Marsinah in the first American stage production, produced by Harrison Grey Fiske, of Kismet in 1911.
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Rita Jolivet was in the cast of A Thousand Years Ago by Percy MacKaye, presented at the Shubert Theatre in January 1914.
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Rita Jolivet was standing on the bridge with Charles Frohman, a theatrical producer who was grooming her for stardom, when the liner went down.
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Rita Jolivet had been a rising star, both in Frohman's theatrical productions and in silent films, however after Frohman's death her theatrical career essentially came to a halt.
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Rita Jolivet testified in the Federal District Court during a hearing regarding a petition of the Cunard Steamship Company, which owned the Lusitania.
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Rita Jolivet was seeking a limitation of liabilities for the deaths and damage which occurred from the tragedy.
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Rita Jolivet was going to join his wife, Jolivet's sister, Inez Vernon, who was residing in Europe.
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In November 1919, Rita Jolivet's younger brother, Alfred, married 29-year-old American Beatrice Witherbee, who was a Lusitania survivor.
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On 14 November 1908 Rita Jolivet married Alfred Charles Stern, but the marriage soon failed.
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Cippico and Rita Jolivet had no children together, and the marriage ended in divorce.
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Rita Jolivet was the son of Captain Bryce Allan of Ballikinrain Castle, Stirlingshire, and his wife, daughter of Stewart Clark MP, DL, of Dundas Castle, South Queensferry; and grandson of James Allan of Glasgow, older brother of Sir Hugh.
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Rita Jolivet made Fata Morgana, Zvani, L'Onore di Morire, La Mano di Fatma, and Cuore ed arte.
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Rita Jolivet returned to Italy to make Teodora, in which she portrayed the Empress Theodora in a famous romance by the French dramatist Victorien Sardou; historians disagree about the character of the wife of the Emperor Justinian, but the film depicted both her as beautiful and charming.
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Lest We Forget was shown in Washington, DC, with Rita Jolivet addressing audiences before three of its screenings.
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Rita Jolivet told the audiences of her riveting personal experiences since the war began in August 1914, when she was in France.
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Rita Jolivet continued making films in France and Italy through 1926.