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Renée Adorée

1898 - 1933

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Renée Adorée (born Jeanne de la Fonte [ʒɑ̃ de lɑ fɔn.te]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Renée Adorée has received more than 285,960 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Renée Adorée is the 4,002nd most popular actor (down from 3,489th in 2019), the 4,165th most popular biography from France (down from 3,724th in 2019) and the 265th most popular French Actor.

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  • 49.14

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Renée Adorée ranks 4,002 out of 13,578. Before her are Michael B. Jordan, Emily Mortimer, BD Wong, Andrew Divoff, Ingrid Pitt, and Eddie Cantor. After her are Gina Carano, Joseph Grimaldi, Banjō Ginga, Brigitte Horney, Monique van de Ven, and Margarita Xirgu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Renée Adorée ranks 190. Before her are Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, Zeki Rıza Sporel, Karolina Kózka, Nazik al-Abid, Norman Vincent Peale, and Félix Sesúmaga. After her are Agnes Ayres, Mikhail Artamonov, Dorothy Gish, Alfred Schmidt, M. Ageyev, and Boughera El Ouafi. Among people deceased in 1933, Renée Adorée ranks 108. Before her are George Saling, George Calnan, Jimmie Rodgers, György Almásy, Kote Marjanishvili, and Olaf Bull. After her are János Hadik, Alfréd Haar, Alexander von Krobatin, Harriet Brooks, F. Holland Day, and Anita Rée.

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In France

Among people born in France, Renée Adorée ranks 4,165 out of 6,770. Before her are Claudine Longet (1942), Michel Maffesoli (1944), Jean René Constant Quoy (1790), Georges Buchard (1893), Alfred Lacroix (1863), and Maurice Feltin (1883). After her are Raymond Kaelbel (1932), Yves Giraud-Cabantous (1904), Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835), Serge Lang (1927), Paul Paray (1886), and Pierre Adet (1763).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Renée Adorée ranks 265. Before her are Olivier Marchal (1958), Gabrielle Réjane (1856), Danièle Delorme (1926), Benoît Magimel (1974), Jean Poiret (1926), and Marie-Anne Chazel (1951). After her are Louis Garrel (1983), Jean-Pierre Darroussin (1953), Noël Roquevert (1892), Michel Subor (1935), Marie Bell (1900), and Virginie Ledoyen (1976).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Big Parade
Melisande
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
Nov 5th 19257.555 / 10
Day Dreams
The Girl
In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, a young man goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes of his various jobs which her imagination expands into much nobler ones than those that he is actually attempting.
Nov 27th 19226.5 / 10
The Blackbird
Fifi Lorraine
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.
Feb 13th 19266.2 / 10