Vintage French postcard. Eugène and Louise Silvain in the Greek tragedy Electre/ Elektra by Sophocles, in a translation and adaptation by Alfred Poizat, performed together with other actors from the Comédie Française at the Théâtre Antique/ Romain in Arles in July 1907. Louise Silvain played the title character. Written on the card: It was startling.
Eugène Sylvain/ Eugène Silvain (1851-1930), aka known as Sylvain and Silvain, was a prominent French stage actor, though he is best remembered as the evil bishop Cauchon in Carl Dreyer’s silent masterpiece La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928). He entered the Comédie Française in 1878, became a Sociétaire in 1883, a Doyen between 1916 and 1928, and he left the company in 1928.
Louise Silvain (1874-1930) entered the Comédie Française in 1901, became sociétaire in 1910 and sociétaire honoraire in 1925. She was married to Eugène Silvain, aka Sylvain. She acted in the films Une scène d'Andromaque à la Comédie Française (dir. unknown, 1909) and Molière, sa vie, son oeuvre (Jacques de Féraudy, 1922).
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