FIFI D'ORSAY
b. April 16, 1904 in Montréal, Québec
d. December 2, 1983 in Woodland Hills, California
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Fifi D'Orsay started out in life as Marie-Rose Angelina Yvonne Lussier. As a child she dreamed of becoming an actress and when she was old enough travelled to New York to look for work in theatre. She was cast to be in The Greenwich Village Follies after singing the novelty song, Yes! We Have No Bananas, in French. Layering it on a bit, she the play's director she was from Paris and had experience with the famous Follies Bèrgere. She was hired and the director named her Mademoiselle Fifi. After working the music hall circuit for a few years she moved to California to try her luck in Hollywood. It was here she added the D'Orsay to the "Fifi" and began a career in movies usually cast as the "naughty French girl."
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Features & TV Movies:
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They Had to See Paris (1929)
Hot for Paris (1929)
Those Three French Girls (1930)
On the Level (1930)
Women Everywhere (1930)
Young As You Feel (1931)
Just Imagine (1931)
Women of All Nations (1931)
The Stolen Jools (1931)
The Slippery Pearls (1931)
Mr. Lemon of Orange (1931)
The Girl from Calgary (1932)
Silk Stockings (1932)
They Just Had to Get Married (1933)
The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
Going Hollywood (1933)
Wonder Bar (1934)
La Veuve Joyeuse (1934)
Three Legionnaires (1937)
Paino Mooner (1942)
Submarine Base (1943)
Nabonga (1944)
Delinquent Daughters (1944)
Dixie Jamboree (1944)
Accent on Youth (1945)
The Gangster (1947)
Wild and Wonderful (1963)
What a Way to Go (1964)
The Art of Love (1965)
Assignment to Kill (1968)
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