Suzanne Cotelle
(Harpe)
4 Vla Montcalm, 75018 Paris, France
Harpist Suzanne Cotelle was awarded first prize for excellence from the Nancy Conservatory, and the Conservatoire de Paris. She formed a harp duo with Annie Challan, that recorded for the Pathé Marconi label. Cotellen was a member of Henriette Renié’s famous harp sextet, which was comprised of harpists who had won the Conservatoire’s premier prix. She was married to Robert Blot, who conducted the Paris Opera orchestra from 1946-1965.

Romain Bouteille
(COMÉDIENS)
171 Rue Ordener, 75018 Paris, France
Playwright, actor, comedian and singer Romain Bouteille was one of the driving forces of the café-théâtre movement and the author of nearly thirty anarchist inspired plays. In 1966, Bouteille made his first one-man-show at the literary café and bookshop Théâtre de la Vieille-Grille in Paris. He met Coluche (Michel Colucci) in 1968, together with Henri Guybet , Patrick Dewaere and Miou-Miou, they founded the Café de la Gare troupe. On June 12th 1969, the troupe performed its first show, a set of burlesque texts by Bouteille, Sotha, Gégé and Dewaere. He appeared in over 50 TV and cinema, including Louis Malle’s Le Feu Follet (1963).

Anna Gaylor
(COMÉDIENNES)
162 Rue Ordener, 75018 Paris, France
Anna Gaylor (1932-2021, real name Anna Marie Tamora Senioutovitch) was a student at the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique alongside Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle and Jean-Paul Belmondo. She made her theatre debut in 1956 at the Théâtre de l’Athénée. On the big screen she came to the public’s attention in two British productions, Seven Thunders, directed by Hugo Fregonese where she played a leading role alongside Stephen Boyd (1957), and then Nor the Moon by Night, directed by Ken Annakin. She worked in several films with her husband, the director Alain Jessua, including La Vie à l’envers (1964), Jeu de massacre (1966), and Traitement de choc (1973).

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Suzanne Lafaye
(ARTISTES LYRIQUES)
168 Rue Ordener, 75018 Paris, France
Soprano Suzanne Lafaye won first prize for singing at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux. She was an opera singer who was particularly active in the 1960s. In 1963 she appeared in Così fan tutte with the Les Baladins Lyriques, a troupe she co-founded with Jean-Claude Hartemann. Also in the same decade you could have seen her at the Opéra ballet Hippolyte et Aricie (Hôtel de Soubise, 1964), and the Opéra bouffe La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein (Théâtre Marigny, 1966).

Robert Jysor
(ARTISTES LYRIQUES)
189 Rue Ordener, 75018 Paris, France
The singing career of baritone Robert Jysor took him from the cabarets of Montmartre to the music halls of Paris and ultimately to the Gaîté Lyrique, where he joined their troupe alongside Louise Dhamarys, Georges Foix and Leon Ponzio. In 1926 he made his debut at the Opéra-Comique in Manon. In the 1930s he returned to his roots, on the stage of the Folies-Bergères, and then Bobino. In 1951 he made one of his last appearances, in Francis Lopez’s operetta Le Chanteur de Mexico at the Théâtre du Châtelet, opposite Luis Mariano and Janes Rhodes.

Gisele Touret
(COMÉDIENNES)
189 Rue Ordener, 75018 Paris, France
Predominantly a theatre actress Gisele Touret moved into TV and film work much later in her career. She made her Parisian stage debut in 1943 at the Théâtre Hébertot in Sodome et Gomorrhe. In the 1960s when she lived here she trod the boards of the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier (1960), Théâtre de l’Alliance française (1961), Théâtre de l’Ambigu-Comique (1962), Théâtre des Mathurins (1964). After 1970 she would appear in more TV and film productions.

Lita Recio
(COMÉDIENNES)
189 Rue Ordener, 75018 Paris, France
Actress Lita Recio was brought up in the very heart of of Montmartre. Although an excellent theatre actress (1953-1971) she made a bigger impact on TV and film. Highlights of her film career would be Panique (1946, directed by Julien Duvivier) and Hans le marin (1948, directed by François Villiers). She also appeared in one of the greatest French films, Du rififi chez les hommes or Rififi (1954, directed by Jules Dassin). She regularly dubbed the voices of actresses Barbara Stanwyck, Agnes Moorehead, Marlène Dietrich and Bette Davis.

Michel Nouaux
(Saxophone)
165 Rue Championnet, 75018 Paris, France
Saxophonist Michel Nouaux was a student of the Lille Conservatoire, and unanimously awarded a first prize from the Conservatoire National de Paris in 1943. On the international stage he excelled, winning the Concours International d’Exécution Musicale in Geneva in 1952. He was a member of the Quatuor de Saxophones de la Garde Republicaine, one of the oldest chamber music formations of this type.

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Lucien Blondeau
(COMÉDIENS)
116 Rue Damrémont, 75018 Paris, France
Parisian Lucien Blondeau (1884-1965) was a theatre and cinema actor who lived here toward the end of his life. He appeared at the Théâtre des Arts in five pre-WW1 plays, Le Sicilien (Molière), Fantasio (Alfred de Musset), La Nuit persane (Jean-Louis Vaudoyer), Les Frères Karamazov (Jacques Copeau/Jean Croué), and Le Chagrin dans le palais de Han (Louis Laloy). His cinema career was longer than his time on stage. Perhaps his most memorable performance is in Jean Faurez’s 1945 film La fille aux yeux gris. In the 1950s he appeared in two Le comte de Monte-Cristo releases, both directed by Robert Vernay. His final film was Une grosse tête (1962), starring Eddie Constantine.