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Dean, Julia
Dean, Julia (1880–1952), actress. A beautiful blonde with warm, vivid eyes, she was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, but raised in Salt Lake City, where she made her first stage appearances with a local stock company. After playing briefly with Joseph Jefferson, James O'Neill, and in vaudeville, she made her New York debut in The Altar of Friendship (1902). Small roles followed in Merely Mary Ann (1903) and The Serio‐Comic Governess (1904) before she won attention as Anna Gray, who destroys evidence that might incriminate her lover, in The Little Gray Lady (1906) and as the carefree Polly Hope in The Round Up (1907), then toured as Emma Brooks in Paid in Full (1908). Dean's performance as the desperate Christiane in The Lily (1909) earned her further recognition, and after playing the part for two seasons she was acclaimed for her poor telephone operator Virginia Blaine in Bought and Paid For (1911) and her murderess Mrs. Harding in The Law of the Land (1914). None of her later performances found success, including her last New York appearance opposite George Arliss in Poldekin (1920). Dean was praised as an actress of “absolute naturalness and much varied emotional expressiveness.”
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Dean, Julia." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Dean, Julia." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-DeanJulia1.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Dean, Julia." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-DeanJulia1.html |
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Lecouvreur, Adrienne
Lecouvreur, Adrienne (1692–1730), French actress, who made her first appearance at the Comédie-Française in 1717 in the title-role of Crébillion's Électre. Her immediate popularity aroused much jealousy among her fellow actresses, but she continued to triumph with the public. She was better in tragedy than comedy and, disliking the declamatory style which had come down from Mlle Champmeslé, she succeeded, in the teeth of their opposition, in introducing a much simpler and more natural form of delivery. Her reign was a brief one, and she died suddenly after only 13 years. As an actress she was refused Christian burial, and was interred secretly by night in a marshy corner of the rue de Bourgogne. The English actress Anne Oldfield, who died in the same year, was buried in Westminster Abbey. Voltaire, in some of whose plays Lecouvreur had appeared, contrasted bitterly the respect shown to the English actress with the harsh treatment of her French counterpart.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Lecouvreur, Adrienne." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Lecouvreur, Adrienne." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-LecouvreurAdrienne.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Lecouvreur, Adrienne." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-LecouvreurAdrienne.html |
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Dean, Julia
Dean, Julia (1830–68), American actress, grand-daughter of Samuel Drake. With her father and stepmother she appeared as a child under the management of Ludlow and Sol Smith, and in 1846 made her adult début in New York as Julia in Sheridan Knowles's The Hunchback. A beautiful woman, with a gentle personality and great charm, she was at her best in roles of tenderness and pathos, such as Juliet, Scribe's Adrienne Lecouvreur, and Mrs Haller in Kotzebue's The Stranger. She made an unhappy marriage in 1855, and her acting declined. A tour of California in 1856 was a success, but she never regained her position in New York, where she returned after her divorce. She died in childbirth following her second marriage in 1867.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Dean, Julia." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Dean, Julia." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-DeanJulia.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Dean, Julia." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-DeanJulia.html |
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