Feuillère, Edwige

Feuillère, Edwige [ Caroline Cunati] (1907– ), French actress, who, as Cora Lynn, first appeared in light comedies at the Palais-Royal. She made her début at the Comédie-Française in 1931 but left to go into films, returning to the Paris stage in 1934. Her quality as an actress became apparent in Becque's La Parisienne (1937) and her playing of Marguerite Gautier in the younger Dumas's La Dame aux camélias (1940). She created the parts of Lia in Giraudoux's Sodome et Gomorrhe (1943), Paola in his Pour Lucrèce (1953), and the Queen in Cocteau's L' Aigle à deux têtes (1946). In 1948 she joined the Barrault—Renaud company to play Ysé, one of her finest parts, in Claudel's Partage de midi. In 1957 she played the Queen in a French version of Betti's La regina e gli insorti, and she was in Paris productions of Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad (1963), Giraudoux's La Folle de Chaillot (1965), Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth (1971), and Dürrenmatt's Der Besuch der alten Dame in 1976. She scored an outstanding success in 1977 in Arbuzov's Old World, known in French as Le Bateau pour Lipaïa, and in 1984 was in Anouilh's Léocadia. She was seen in London in 1951 and 1968 in Partage de midi, in 1955 in La Dame aux camélias, and in 1957 with her own company at the Palace Theatre, in a repertory that included La Parisienne and Racine's Phèdre.