Yvonne Garrick

Yvonne Garrick (born 1 August 1878) was a French stage actress.

Early life

Marie-Berthe Yvonne Garrick was born at Louhans^[1] or Charolles.^[2] She studied acting with Maurice de Féraudy at the Conservatoire de Paris.^[3] She won the highest prize among female students when she graduated from the Conservatoire in 1900.^[4]

Career

In Paris

Garrick was a new actress when she appeared in Château Historique in 1900 at the Theatre National de l'Odéon.^[5] She played the title role in Psyche, and appeared in Le Mariage de Figaro, Colinette, and La Nuit de Mai,^[6] at the Odéon, all in 1901.^[7] Garrick appeared in Le Luxe des Autres at the Odéon in 1902.^[3]With the Comédie-Française in 1905, she played Jessica in Shylock, ou le Marchand de Venice.^[8] She played the title role in Jeanne Qui Rit at the Théatre Rejane in 1908.^[9] In 1909, back at the Odéon, she starred in Le Poussin.^[10] She starred in Edouard Pailleron's comedy Le Monde où l'on s'ennuie with the Comédie Francaise, and she returned to that show to the United States.^[11]

In North America

Garrick's New York debut came in 1915, in the farce Mon Ami Teddy.^[12] She reprised her role in Le Monde où l'on s'ennuie and was also in Arsène Lupin and La Sacrifiee, all at New York's Theatre Francais in the spring of 1916.^{[13][14][15][16]} In 1919, she starred in Frou Frou in Montréal,^[17] and in Le Gendre de M. Poirier at the Theatre du Vieux Columbier;^[18] and she was in a company at the Lenox Little Theater.^[19] In 1920, Garrick toured the United States in three short plays, opposite Belgian actor Carlo Liten;^[20] she also appeared in Musk on Broadway that year.^[21][22][23] In 1921 she gave a recitation at a reception for French ambassador Jean Jules Jusserand given by the Cercle Rochambeau in New York.^[24]

World War I benefit performances

In January 1916, Garrick was part of a group of actresses and writers to read letters from Edith Wharton's The Book of the Homeless, at a fundraising event for war relief causes, at art gallery in New York.^[25] She was on the programs of wartime benefit shows in 1918, including a concert for Secours Franco-Americain at the Ritz-Carlton^[26] and a Lake Placid, NY fundraiser for the American Friends of Musicians in France.^[27]

Personal life

There were published rumors that Garrick would marry wealthy American James Hazen Hyde in 1906.^[28] A photograph in the Library of Congress shows her as "Yvonne Garrick Garchery" in the 1910s.^[29]

References

External links

• A 1913 publicity image of Yvonne Garrick, from Getty Images.
• A 1916 portrait of Yvonne Garrick by Arnold Genthe, in the collection of the Library of Congress.
• Yvonne Garrick's listing on IBDB.

This page was last edited on 16 March 2023, at 14:25