- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- May 10, 1894
- Place of Birth
- Bucarest, Romania
- Died
- December 11, 1993
Elvira Popescu
Elvira Popescu (10 May 1894 – 11 December 1993) was a Romanian-French stage and film actress and theatre director. During the 1930s and 1940s, she starred in a number of French comedy films. Born in Bucharest, Popescu studied drama at the Music and Drama Conservatory in her native city, under the guidance of Constantin Nottara and Aristizza Romanescu. In 1911 Grigore Brezeanu was making the first Romanian films to deal with fiction. He employed Popesco as well as other leading actors like Nottara and Romanescu. The first two films were called "Fatal Love" and "Spin a Yarn". No copies are known of these films. Popesco made her debut at the National Theatre Bucharest at age 16. In 1912, she played herself in the movie Independența României, directed by Aristide Demetriade. In 1919 she became artistic director of the Excelsior Theatre. In 1921, Popescu started Teatrul Mic, which she manag…
Filmography
tvLes Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · Self
movieLa Voyante
1972 · Karma, la voyante
movieLa Mamma
1966 · Rosaria
movieThe Battle of Austerlitz
1960 · Lætitia Bonaparte
moviePurple Noon
1960 · Mrs. Popova
tvEn direct de...
1956 · self
movieFou d'amour
1943 · Arabella
movieThe Blue Veil
1942 · Mona Lorenza
movieFrédérica
1942 · Frédérica
movieMademoiselle Swing
1942 · Sofia de Vinci
movieL'âge d'or
1942 · Véra Termutzki
movieLe Valet maître
1941
movieParade in 7 Nights
1941 · Madame Fanny
movieThe Mondesir Heir
1940 · Erika, l'aventurière
movieSacred Woods
1939 · Francine Margerie
movieFour Flights to Love
1939 · Sonia Vorochine
movieNine Bachelors
1939 · Countess Stacia Batchefskaïa
movieThe Fatted Calf
1939 · Princess Dorothée
movieBehind the Facade
1939 · Mrs. Rameau, wife of an industrialist and mistress of Alfredo
movieDeputy Eusèbe
1939 · Mariska
movieMon curé chez les riches
1938 · Lisette Cousinet
movieBargekeepers Daughter
1938 · The Queen of Silistrie
movieTricoche and Cacolet
1938 · Bernardine Van der Pouf
movieLa Présidente
1938 · Vérotcha
movieIn Venice, One Night
1937 · Nadia Mortal
movieThe Green Dress
1937 · La duchesse de Maulévrier
movieLe Club des Aristocrates
1937 · La comtesse Irène Waldapowska
movieThe House Across the Street
1937 · Mme Anna
movieThe Man of the Day
1937 · Mona Thalia
movieThe King
1936 · Thérèse Marnix
movieL'Amant de madame Vidal
1936
movieDora Nelson
1935 · Dora Nelson / Suzanne Verdier
Une femme chipée
movieUne femme chipée
1934 · Hélène Larsonnier
movieSa meilleure cliente
1932 · Edwige
movieMy Cousin From Warsaw
1931 · Sonia Varilovna
movieThe stranger
1931 · Dora Clarkson
movieTigancusa de la iatac
1923 · Maria Tortusanu - Vasil's fiancée