Marthe Vinot

Martha Vinot (8 December 1894 – 13 July 1974)[1] was a French actress whose film career began in the early years of silent film and lasted until the early 1920s.[2]

Life and career

Vinot was born Marthe Lagrange in Paris. She was married to French film and stage actor Maurice Vinot who was killed in 1916 during World War I whilst enlisted in the French military. She then married actor and director Pierre Blanchar, with whom she had a daughter, actress Dominique Blanchar.

She made a career in the early days of silent films and retired from the screen in 1924. Her first film role was in the Louis Feuillade-directed film André Chénier in 1909 for Gaumont Film Company. It would be the first of many collaborations with Feuillade. Marthe Vinot died in Paris in 1974.

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ Le Cinema Francais
  2. ↑ Le Cinema Francais

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