Dancer

Florelle

French actress and singer

Born 1898 · Les Sables-d'OlonneDied 1974France
Florelle
Image: Studio Harcourt. · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Florelle was a French dancer, born in 1898 in Les Sables-d'Olonne, who died in 1974.

Biography

Florelle (born Odette Élisa Joséphine Marguerite Rousseau, 9 August 1898 – 28 September 1974) was a French soprano singer and actress. She gained fame as Polly Peachum in the French film The Threepenny Opera, after which she had numerous other film roles. In the 1940s, she retired from the stage, but continued to make film appearances during the war.

From the Wikipedia article “Florelle”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Contemporaries

Facts from Wikidata (Q3073914), CC0.