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Lina Cavalieri

N 15 B 6.8K C 0 E Apr 10, 2023 F Apr 10, 2023

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French postcard by S.I.P, series 52, no. 12. Photo: Reutlinger, Paris. Sent by mail in 1902.

Around 1900, Italian soprano Lina Cavalieri (1874-1944) was considered the most beautiful woman on earth.

As a young girl, she ran from the orphanage with a theatre group and made a career as a Vaudeville singer first in Paris and soon all around Europe. In 1900 she debuted as an opera singer, soon conquering the opera houses of Monte-Carlo, Paris and New York. She was famous for her hourglass-like corsets, visible in photographs and portraits by Cesare Tallone and Giovanni Boldini.

In 1913, Cavalieri married French tenor Lucien Muratore and withdrew from the stage, instead starting a career in cinema, first in the United States in Manon Lescaut (1914), with Muratore as Des Grieux; in Italy from 1915 on (La sposa della morte, 1915; La rosa di Granada, 1916, both directed by Emilio Ghione); and from 1917 onwards again in the United States (The Eternal Tempress, Emile Chautard 1917; Love's Conquest, 1918; A Woman of Impulse, 1918; The Two Brides, 1919, all three directed by Edward José). In her films, we see Cavalieri in her forties, past her prime. Most films also lack, alas.

Her voice lacks too, as very few records recording her voice were made. During the Second World War, Cavalieri worked as a volunteer nurse. She was killed in an Allied bombing raid which destroyed her home near Florence. Lina Cavalieri was immortalised in the 1955 Italian biopic dedicated to her life: La donna più bella del mondo, starring Gina Lollobrigida.

Hear Lina's voice on YouTube, singing the Jewel Aria from Gounod's Faust www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqn6-HpXIWE

Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

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Joyeuses Paques!

N 8 B 2.5K C 1 E Apr 9, 2023 F Apr 9, 2023

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Vintage French postcard. S.I.P. 1153. Design by E.M. Photo by Reutlinger. Actress Renée Desprez wishes you Happy Easter/ Joyeuses Pâques/ Vrolijk Pasen/ Buona Pasqua/ Felices Pascuas/ Feliz Páscoa/ Fröhliche Oster/ Glædelig påske/ Glad påsk/ Paște fericit/ Boldog húsvétot/ Счастливой Пасхи/ Щасливої Пасхи!/ 复活节快乐/ ハッピーイースター/ Selamat Paskah/Mutlu Paskalyalar/ Καλό Πάσχα !

Renée Desprez (?-?) was a French singer, theatre and film actress, and 'élégante' of the Belle Epoque.

From 1900, Desprez performed in Paris both at prose theatres such as Palais-Royal theatre, théâtre du Gymnase, théâtre de la Renaissance, and théâtre des Nouveautés,, as well as operetta houses such as Bouffes Parisiens, Variétés, and Capucines. She also performed at the Theatre Michel in St. Petersburg. Desprez was so popular that her photographs were used to promote fashion houses such as Agnès, Lewis, Noirat and Dœuillet, As far as known, Desprez only acted in three silent films: Les Lois du monde (1917) directed by Fanny Liona and starring Jean Yonnel, L'Équipe (1922), based on the novel by Francis Carco, and directed by Maurice Lagrenée, and Cœur léger (1923) by Robert Saidreau, starring Pierre Etchepare. Desprez is not to be confused with actress Suzanne Desprès (1875-1951).

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Lina Cavalieri

N 6 B 2.4K C 0 E Apr 12, 2014 F Mar 24, 2023

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Vintage French postcard. S.I.P., No. 1188. Photo by Reutlinger, Paris. Card mailed in 1906. Lina Cavalieri possibly in the opera Thaïs by Jules Massenet.

Around 1900, Italian soprano Lina Cavalieri (1874 - 1944) was considered: the most beautiful woman on earth. While she started as a Paris café-concert singer in the 1890s, she soon rose to stardom at the Folies-Bergères. In 1900 she embarked on a new career as opera singer, thus becoming an internationally acclaimed star and a fashion and beauty model, from Russia to the US. In the 1910s she started a film career in the US and Italy, with her husband Lucien Muratore.

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Lina Cavalieri

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Vintage French postcard. S.I.P., No. 1188. Photo by Reutlinger, Paris. Lina Cavalieri in the opera Thaïs by Jules Massenet.

Around 1900, Italian soprano Lina Cavalieri (1874 - 1944) was considered: the most beautiful woman on earth. While she started as a Paris café-concert singer in the 1890s, she soon rose to stardom at the Folies-Bergères. In 1900 she embarked on a new career as an opera singer, thus becoming an internationally acclaimed star and a fashion and beauty model, from Russia to the US. In the 1910s she started a film career in the US and Italy, with her husband Lucien Muratore.

Lina Cavalieri

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Vintage French postcard. S.I.P., 30th series, no. 2. Photo by Reutlinger, Paris. Mailed 1902.

Around 1900, Italian soprano Lina Cavalieri (1874 - 1944) was considered: the most beautiful woman on earth. While she started as a Paris café-concert singer in the 1890s, she soon rose to stardom at the Folies-Bergères. In 1900 she embarked on a new career as opera singer, thus becoming an internationally acclaimed star and a fashion and beauty model, from Russia to the US. In the 1910s she started a film career in the US and Italy, with her husband Lucien Muratore.