Fifi D'Orsay (April 16, 1904 - December 2, 1983) was an actress. Born Marie-Rose Angelina Yvonne Lussier in Montreal, Quebec, as a young girl, filled with the desire to become an actress, she went to New York City. There, she found work in The Greenwich Village Follies after an audition in which she sang the song "Yes! We Have No Bananas" in French. In a burst of creativity, she told the play's director she was from Paris, France where she had worked in the Folies Bergères. The show's impressed director hired her, billing her as "Mademoiselle Fifi". April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... December 2 is the 336th day (337th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... City motto: Concordia Salus (Latin: Well-being through harmony) Province Quebec Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area  - % water 366. ... Motto: Je me souviens (French: I remember) Official languages French Flower White garden lily Capital Quebec City Largest city Montreal Lieutenant-Governor Lise Thibault Premier Jean Charest (PLQ) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 75 24 Area Total  - Land  - Water    (% of total)  Ranked 2nd 1,542,056 km² 1,183... Flag Seal Nickname: The Big Apple, The Capital of the World[1], Gotham Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area    - City 1,214. ... The Eiffel Tower, the international symbol of the city For other uses, see Paris (disambiguation). ... Costume, c. ...

Fifi D'Orsay

While working in the show, she became involved with Ed Gallagher, a veteran actor who joined her in putting together a vaudeville act. After working with Gallagher and others in music halls for a few years, she headed west to Hollywood, California. There, she added the Paris name "D'Orsay" to the "Fifi" and began a career in movies, often cast as the naughty French girl from "Gay Paris." replacing existing fair use photo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Vaudeville is a style of multi-act theatre which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ... Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue...

While never a superstar, she worked hard at her craft headlining with the likes of Bing Crosby, and Buster Crabbe. For years, she kept alternating her appearances in film with continued performances in vaudeville and when age put an end to the glamour roles, she readily took jobs in television. At the age of sixty-seven, she appeared back on stage in the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, Follies. Harry Lillis Bing Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977. ... Buster Crabbe Buster Crabbe (February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983) was an American athlete turned actor, who starred in a number of popular serials in the 1930s and 1940s. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...

Fifi D'Orsay died from cancer at the age of 79 in Woodland Hills, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Woodland Hills is a community within the City of Los Angeles. ... Gates of Forest Lawn Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a cemetery in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California. ... Nickname The Jewel City Location Location of Glendale within Los Angeles County and the State of California. ...

Partial filmography

• Assignment to Kill - (1968)
• The Art of Love - (1965)
• What a Way to Go! - (1964)
• Wild And Wonderful - (1964)
• The Gangster - (1947)
• Dixie Jamboree - (1945)
• Delinquent Daughters - (1944)
• Nabonga - (1944)
• Submarine Base - (1943)
• Three Legionnaires - (1937)
• Wonder Bar - (1934)
• The Life of Jimmy Dolan - (1933)
• They Just Had to Get Married - (1933)
• Going Hollywood - (1933)
• The Girl From Calgary - (1932)
• Mr. Lemon of Orange - (1931)
• Young as You Feel - (1931)
• The Stolen Jools - (1931)
• Women of All Nations - (1931)
• On the Level - (1930)
• Those Three French Girls - (1930)
• Hot for Paris - (1930)
• Women Everywhere - (1930)
• They Had to See Paris - (1929)

See also: Other Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood The Art of Love (1965) is a movie comedy about an American artist in Paris who fakes his own death in order to increase the worth of his paintings (new paintings keep posthumously hitting the market). ... Summary What A Way To Go! (1964) is one of those movies that came out of the happy-fun Hollywood era of the Rat Pack years, where a popular type of movie promised escape into naive plots that exclusively focused on the themes of love and sex in fluffy, brightly... Motion pictures have been a part of the Canadians. ...

External links

• Fifi D'Orsay at the Internet Movie Database