Rita Renoir (19 January 1934 – 4 May 2016) was a French strip-teaser and actress.
Biography
Renoir was the
Vedette of the
Crazy Horse Saloon
Le Crazy Horse Saloon or Le Crazy Horse de Paris is a Parisian cabaret and strip club known for its stage shows performed by nude female dancers and for the diverse range of magic and variety 'turns' between each nude show and the next. Its owne ...
, in Paris, between the 1950s and 1960s, becoming one of the most famous European
strip-tease
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rs.
In 1964 Renoir was chosen by
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni ( ; ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and editor. He is best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents", ''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and '' ...
to play the role of Emilia in ''
The Red Desert'',
[ and the following year she made her theatrical debut in ]René de Obaldia
René de Obaldia (22 October 1918 – 27 January 2022) was a French playwright and poet. He was elected to the Académie française
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary ...
's ''Du vent dans les branches de sassafras'', alongside Michel Simon
Michel Simon (; 9 April 1895 – 30 May 1975) was a Swiss actor of German origin active primarily in France. [Jean-Jacques Lebel
Jean-Jacques Lebel (; born 30 June 1936, Paris) is a French visual artist, poet, art collector, writer, political activist, and creator of performance art happening art events. Besides his heterogeneous artworks and poetry, Lebel is also known f ...]
's representation of the Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...
's drama ''Le Désir Attrapé par la Queue'' (''Desire Caught by the Tail'').
Filmography
* 1953 : ''Les Compagnes de la nuit
''Les Compagnes de la nuit'' , is a French drama film from 1953, directed by Ralph Habib, written by Paul Andréota, starring Françoise Arnoul and Louis de Funès.
Cast
* Françoise Arnoul : Olga Viterbo
* Raymond Pellegrin : Jo Verdier
...
''
* 1958 : ''Le Sicilien''
* 1962 : ''Commandant X'' (TV)
* 1963 : ''Mondo di notte n. 3''
* 1963 : ''Dragées au poivre
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Cast
* Jean Babilée a ...
''
* 1964 : ''Ni figue ni raisin'' (TV)
* 1964 : '' The Red Desert''
* 1966 : ''Chappaqua''
* 1967 : ''Fantômas contre Scotland Yard
''Fantômas contre Scotland Yard'' (, "Fantomas Against Scotland Yard") is the final installment of a trilogy of films starring Jean Marais as the arch villain Fantômas opposite Louis de Funès as the earnest but outclassed commissaire Juve and ...
''
* 1970 : ''Cannabis
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''
* 1975 : ''Le Futur aux trousses''
* 1981 : '' Sois belle et tais-toi''
* 1982 : ''The Angel
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Angel or Angels may refer to:
Places
* Angel (river), in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
* Angel, London, an area of London
** Angel tube station
** The Angel, Islington, a building from ...
''
* 1984 : ''Lire c'est vivre : Élie Faure, Vélasquez et les Ménines'' (TV)
References
Further reading
* Frank Horvat, Patrick Lindermohr, ''J'aime le strip-tease'', Éditions Rencontres, 1962
* « Entretien avec Rita Renoir », in ''Plexus, la revue qui décomplexe'', n° 3, Paris, août-septembre 1966
* Julio Cortázar
Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; ) was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenc ...
, ''Homenaje a una joven bruja'', in ''Territorios'', Mexico-Madrid-Buenos Aires, Siglo Veintiuno, 1978
* Jean-Pierre Georges, ''Le Diable et la Licorne : métaphysique du strip-tease'', Paris, La Table ronde, 2004
External links
*
* Jean-Michel Palmier
« Rita Renoir : Les Voyeurs attrapés par la queue »
in ''Politique Hebdo''.
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1938 births
2016 deaths
French film actresses
French television actresses
French stage actresses
20th-century French actresses