Écoutons-la raconter la genèse de cette pièce. She formed her stage name after her birthplace of Oran and the name of Mazis, another nearby town.

Il en est d’autres qui, du premier coup, s’imposent au point qu’on ne les discute pas. Orane Demazis était redevenue Fanny. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial?

Et n’oubliez pas d’admirer au passage l’harmonie simple de ses gestes, sa sveltesse robuste d’animal libre, la grâce précise des mouvements familiers que lui dicte sa besogne de fille du peuple ou de fille des champs.Pour une comédienne de qualité, c’est une singulière mésaventure que d’avoir créé, au théâtre et au cinéma, dans trois œuvres destinées à demeurer, un rôle que le succès le plus étendu a rendu populaire.

Born Henriette Marie Louise Burgart in Oran, French Algeria, in a family of Alsatian origin, Demazis entered the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in 1919. In a theater and motion picture career that lasted over fifty years, she appeared in twenty four films.

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En février 1943, Orane Demazis évoquait le rôle de sa vie au micro de la radio nationale.

Fanny " interprète bien sûr de nombreuses pièces de Pagnol.

These form the "Marsailles trilogy", also sometimes called the "Fanny trilogy". Biography.

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Mais, malgré son talent, elle n'obtiendra au concours de sortie qu'un premier accessit en Comédie. They lived together for a number of years, during which he gave her starring roles in several of his movies, most famously as 'Fanny', the pregnant, abandoned fish seller of "Marius" (1926), "Fanny (1931), and "Caesar" (1936).

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She also enjoyed success in "Les Miserables" (1934), and "Augele" (also 1934).

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Born to an Alsatian family that had emigrated to Algeria, she took her stage name from the city of her birth, and from Mazis, a neighboring town.