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Marie Marguerite Sarah Duhamel (March 21, 1873 – April 15, 1926) was a French stage and film comedienne.


Career

Duhamel was the daughter of an operetta singer and appeared on stage at a very young age. In 1893 she made her debut as a singer with the play Eldorado, and consequently went on a two-year tour through Italy and the South of France. From 1895 on she worked at various revues in
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. In 1910 she met the film director Romeo Bosetti who worked for Pathé Comica in
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. After the World War I, Duhamel's career became less successful, though she continued to work on stage and for films.


Private life

In 1915 Duhamel married Édouard Louis Schmitt (1884-1972), a fellow stage actor better known as Darmaine or Darmène. Duhamel’s older sister Louise Jeanne Bibiane Duhamel (1870-1910) was also famous as an operetta singer.


Filmography


As ''Rosalie''

* 1911 : ''Little Moritz enlève Rosalie'' (Henri Gambart, scénario Romeo Bosetti) * 1911 : ''Rosalie et Léontine vont au théâtre'' (Romeo Bosetti) * 1911 ; ''Rosalie a trouvé du travail'' (Romeo Bosetti) * 1911 : ''Le jour de l'an de Rosalie'' omeo Bosetti ?* 1911 : ''La Mitrailleuse'' omeo Bosetti ?* 1911 : ''Domestiques bon teint'' omeo Bosetti ?*1911 : ''Rosalie et son phonographe'' omeo Bosettiref>
* 1912 : ''Je ne veux plus de cuisinière'' omeo Bosetti ?* 1912 : ''Les Araignées de Rosalie'' omeo Bosetti ?* 1912 : ''C'est la faute à Rosalie'' omeo Bosetti ?


As ''Pétronille''

* 1911 : ''Little Moritz et le papillon'' * 1912 : ''Pétronille gagne le grand steeple'' * 1913 : ''Pétronille à la caserne'' * 1913 : ''Pétronille cherche une situation'' * 1913 : ''Le Singe de Pétronille'' * 1913 : ''Gavroche au pensionnat de Pétronille'' * 1913 : ''Gavroche et Pétronille visitent Berlin'' * 1913 : ''Gavroche et Pétronille visitent Londres'' * 1913 : ''Pour gagner le million'' * 1913 : ''Casimir et Pétronille font bon ménage'' * 1913 : ''Casimir et Pétronille font de l'auto'' * 1913 : ''Casimir et Pétronille font un héritage'' * 1914 : ''Casimir et Pétronille n'ont pas vu les souverains'' * 1914 : ''Casimir fait de l'entrainement'' * 1914 : ''Casimir, Pétronille et l'Entente cordiale'' * 1914 : ''Casimir tangue'' * 1914 : ''La Vengeance de Casimir'' * 1914 : ''Le Désespoir de Pétronille'' * 1914 : ''Pétronille porteuse de pain'' * 1914 : ''Pétronille suffragette'' * 1914 : ''La Ruse de Pétronille'' * 1916 : ''Casimir et Pétronille au bal de l'ambassade''


Other films

* 1912 : ''Un drame passionnel'' * 1916 : ''C'est pour les orphelins !'' (
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) * 1922 : ''Les Mystères de Paris'' (
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)


Stage work

* 1889 : ''Monsieur Alphonse'', (
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) : ''Adrienne'' * 1892 : ''Article de Paris'' ( Maxime Boucheron,
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) * 1892 : ''La Petite Pologne'', ( Lambert Thiboust and Ernest Blum): ''Fauvette'' * 1892 : ''Les Mouchards'', ( Jules Moinaux and Paul Parfait) : ''Andrée'' * 1892 : ''La Lune à Paris'', (Jules Oudot, Léon Nunès, and Léon Schlésinger) : ''Miss Helyett'' * 1895 : ''Les Contes de Piron'', (Gaston Habrekorn and Célestin Controne) : ''Suzanne'' * 1895 : ''Paris-Sensuel'', (Léon Némo and A. Bural) : ''la commère'' * 1896 : ''Les Bibelots du diable'', (Théodore Cogniard and Clairville) : ''Risette'' * 1896 : ''Les Deux rosses'', ( Pierre Decourcelle by Paul Briollet and Jacques Yvel, and Émile Duhem and Émile Cambillard) * 1896 : ''La Petite goualeuse'', (Gaston Marot and A. Lévy) : ''la petite goualeuse'' * 1902 : ''La Demoiselle'' ''de chez Maxim's'', (Gardel-Hervé) : ''la môme Grenouille'' * 1903 : ''Josiane !'', (Valérien Tranel and Eugène Joullot) : ''Josiane'' * 1908 : ''Cartes transparentes'', ( Jules Moy) * 1908 : ''Une nuit tragique au pays du Czar'', ( Montéhus) : ''l'héroïne'' * 1910 : ''Pige-moi ça !'', ( Cinq-Mars and Charles Pillon) : ''la femme au cadenas'' * 1910 : ''La Conscrite'', (Raoul Hugo) : ''la colonelle'' * 1922 : ''Madame Cantharide'', (Louis Lemarchand and Fernand Rouvray)


Further reading

* Chirat, Raymond.; Le Roy, Eric., ''Catalogue des films français de fiction de 1908 à 1918''. Cinémathèque française, Musée du cinéma,
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. * Preschl, Claudia., ''Lachende Körper : Komikerinnen im Kino der 1910er Jahre''. Synema - Ges. für Film u. Medien, Wien (2008).


Sources


External links


Sarah Duhamel on the Internet Movie Database
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