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Cléo de Mérode

1875 - 1966

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Cléopâtre-Diane de Mérode (27 September 1875 – 17 October 1966) was a French dancer of the Belle Époque. She has been referred to as the "first real celebrity icon" and the "first modern celebrity". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cléo de Mérode has received more than 290,599 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Cléo de Mérode is the 684th most popular actor (up from 689th in 2019), the 1,234th most popular biography from France (up from 1,236th in 2019) and the 60th most popular French Actor.

Cléo de Mérode was a French actress and singer who was most famous for her role in the opera "La Dame aux Camélias" by Giuseppe Verdi.

Memorability Metrics

  • 290k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Cléo de Mérode ranks 684 out of 13,578. Before her are Anne Hathaway, Takashi Shimura, Uma Thurman, Hugo Weaving, André Antoine, and Ethan Hawke. After her are Maureen O'Hara, Erik Bruhn, Ryan Gosling, Tim Roth, Scott Glenn, and Charles Boyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Cléo de Mérode ranks 37. Before her are Henri Lebesgue, Albert Marquet, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Othenio Abel, Sisowath Monivong, and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia. After her are Thomas Burke, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, Mistinguett, Franco Alfano, Birsa Munda, and Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg. Among people deceased in 1966, Cléo de Mérode ranks 34. Before her are Abdul Salam Arif, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Chang Myon, Herbert Gille, and D. T. Suzuki. After her are Ludwig Binswanger, Gino Severini, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Alfred Naujocks, Lao She, and Charlotte Cooper.

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In France

Among people born in France, Cléo de Mérode ranks 1,234 out of 6,770. Before her are Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo (1847), Blanche Monnier (1849), Guillaume Brune (1763), Charles Péguy (1873), Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932), and Pierre d'Ailly (1350). After her are Alys of France, Countess of Vexin (1160), François Clouet (1510), René II, Duke of Lorraine (1451), Alexandre de Rhodes (1591), Georges Auric (1899), and Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure (1767).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Cléo de Mérode ranks 60. Before her are Coluche (1944), Pierre Brice (1929), Louis Jourdan (1921), Claudette Colbert (1903), François Cluzet (1955), and André Antoine (1858). After her are Charles Boyer (1899), Emmanuelle Béart (1963), Nathalie Baye (1948), Max Linder (1883), Jean-Louis Barrault (1910), and Capucine (1928).

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Television and Movie Roles

Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre
The Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre was a special pavilion at the 1900 Paris World's Fair which featured filmed performances presented with sound via wax cylinder recordings. Many of these short films were also presented in hand-tinted color. The performances ranged from theatre (Coquelin the eldest, Gabrielle Réjane, Sarah Bernhardt, Félicia Mallet), opera & operetta (Mariette Sully, Emile Cossira, Jeanne Hatto, Mily-Meyer, Désiré Pougaud), to café concert & music hall variety (Footit et Chocolat, Mason and Forbes, Little Tich, Brunin, Polin, Jules Moy) and dance (Blanche and Louise Mante from the Paris Opera, Carlotta Zambelli, Michel Vasquez, Rosita Mauri, Jeanne Chasles, Achille Viscusi, Christine Kerf, Cléo de Mérode).
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Javanese Dance
Cléopâtre-Diane de Mérode (27 September 1875 - 17 October 1966) was a French dancer of the Belle Époque. She is seen here performing a traditonal Javanese dance.
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Paris Nineteen Hundred
Self - Dancer and model (archive footage)
Nicole Védrès' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maurice Chevalier.
Feb 25o 19485.3 / 10