- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- April 16, 1904
- Place of Birth
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Died
- December 2, 1983
Fifi D'Orsay
Fifi D'Orsay was born Marie-Rose Angelina Yvonne Lussier in Montreal, Canada, to a father who was a postal clerk. The couple had a large family, with Fifi having 11 siblings. She was educated at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Montreal before graduating and finding work as a secretary. As a young typist she wished to become an actress, and moved to New York City. Once there she found work with the Greenwich Village Follies, after an audition in which she sang "Yes! We Have No Bananas" in French. When asked where she was from, she told the director she was from Paris, France, and that she had worked in the Folies Bergère. The impressed director hired her, billing her as "Mademoiselle Fifi". While working in the Follies, she became involved with Ed Gallagher, a veteran actor who was half of the successful Broadway comedy team of Gallagher and Shean. Gallagher and D'Orsay put together a…
Filmography
movieThat's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · (archive footage)
movieAssignment to Kill
1968 · Mrs. Hennie
movieThe Art of Love
1965 · Fanny
tvBewitched
1964
movieWhat a Way to Go!
1964 · Baroness
movieWild and Wonderful
1964 · Simone
tvCombat!
1962 · Mrs. Fouquet
tvThe Lucy Show
1962 · Madame Fifi
tvThe Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
movieThe Grim Reaper
1961 · Toinette
tvPete and Gladys
1960
tvThriller
1960 · Toinette
tvAdventures in Paradise
1959 · Mother Superior, Wanda
tvPerry Mason
1957 · Woman Witness, Mrs. Davis
tvGeneral Electric Theater
1953 · Simone
tvMr. & Mrs. North
1952
tvThis Is Your Life
1952 · Self
movieThe Gangster
1947 · Mrs. Ostroleng
movieDixie Jamboree
1944 · Yvette
movieDelinquent Daughters
1944 · Mimi
movieNabonga
1944 · Marie
movieSubmarine Base
1943 · Maria Styx
moviePiano Mooner
1942 · Maid
Three Legionnaires
movieThree Legionnaires
1937 · Olga
movieWonder Bar
1934 · Mitzi
movieGoing Hollywood
1933 · Lili Yvonne
movieThe Life of Jimmy Dolan
1933 · Budgie
movieThe Girl from Calgary
1932 · Fifi Follette
movieYoung as You Feel
1931 · Fleurette
movieWomen of All Nations
1931 · Fifi
movieThe Stolen Jools
1931 · Fifi D'Orsay
movieMr. Lemon Of Orange
1931 · Julie La Rue
movieThose Three French Girls
1930 · Charmaine (as Fifi Dorsay)
movieWomen Everywhere
1930 · Lili La Fleur
movieOn the Level
1930 · Mimi
movieHot for Paris
1929 · Fifi Dupre
movieThey Had to See Paris
1929 · Fifi