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Renée Adorée

1898 - 1933

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Renée Adorée (French pronunciation: [ʁəne adɔʁe]; born Jeanne de la Fonte [ʒan də la fɔ̃t]; 30 September 1898 – 5 October 1933) was a French stage and film actress who appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. She is best known for portraying the role of Melisande, the love interest of John Gilbert in the melodramatic romance and war epic The Big Parade. Adorée‘s career was cut short after she contracted tuberculosis in 1930. She died of the disease in 1933 at the age of 35. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Renée Adorée is the 4,023rd most popular actor (down from 3,999th in 2019), the 4,164th most popular biography from France (up from 4,166th in 2019) and the 253rd most popular French Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Renée Adorée ranks 4,023 out of 13,578Before her are Mae Busch, Sancho Gracia, Kristina Wayborn, Darlene Cates, Louis Koo, and Brad Harris. After her are Sarah Marshall, Jiang Wen, Barry Morse, Akira Emoto, Joel Edgerton, and Lola Albright.

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Among people born in 1898, Renée Adorée ranks 193Before her are Shirley Booth, Tang Enbo, Philippe Hériat, Katarzyna Kobro, Therese Giehse, and Nils Engdahl. After her are Henry Luce, William Jordan, Yun Chi-young, Eduard Wiiralt, Dorothy Gish, and Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia. Among people deceased in 1933, Renée Adorée ranks 111Before her are János Hadik, Anna Brigadere, Yisrael Meir Kagan, Prince Aribert of Anhalt, Steponas Darius, and Kamini Roy. After her are Jean Cugnot, Harriet Brooks, Kote Marjanishvili, Mykola Khvylovy, Sophia Parnok, and George Moore.

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In France

Among people born in France, Renée Adorée ranks 4,164 out of 6,770Before her are Pierre Emmanuel (1916), Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716), André Simon (1920), René Girard (1954), Rémy Belleau (1528), and Claude Nougaro (1929). After her are Émile Delchambre (1875), Alexandre Lacazette (1991), Christian Noël (1945), Alberto Palacio (1856), Jean Becker (1933), and Jeannie Longo (1958).

Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Renée Adorée ranks 253Before her are Harry Baur (1880), Lily Pons (1898), Gisèle Casadesus (1914), Denis Lavant (1961), Julien Guiomar (1928), and Marie-Anne Chazel (1951). After her are Benoît Magimel (1974), Julie Dreyfus (1966), Michel Subor (1935), Paul Meurisse (1912), Dominique Lavanant (1944), and Chantal Lauby (1948).