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Renée Adorée

Name in Native Language: "Jeanne de la Fonte" (French/FR)
Stage Actress / Film Actress | * 09/30/1898 († 35, 10/06/1933) | Lille, Nord (France)
Renée Adorée (born Émilia Louisa Victoria Reeves; 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. She died of the disease in 1933 at the age of 35. ()

Renée Adorée (born Jeanne de la Fonte; 30 September 1898 – 5 October 1933) was a French actress who appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. She is most famous for her role as Melisande in the melodramatic romance and war epic The Big Parade.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Romance / Love | Comedies

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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 warf ...

The Big Parade

NR

1925 | 3.8/5 | 2h 31min
Drama, Romance / Love, War
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California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits. ...

Tide of Empire

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1929 | 2.8/5 | 1h 13min
Western
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Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and chivalry. A mighty picturization of Count Leo Tolstoi's famous novel of the same name. ...

The Cossacks

Certification unknown

1928 | 3.5/5 | 1h 32min
Drama
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Two men fight for the love of a young woman in the far north. ...

Back to God's Country

Certification unknown

1927 | 1h
 
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Awards & Nominations for Renée Adorée

Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Movies with Renée Adorée as Actress(45)

1944 Twenty Years After
as Self (archive footage)1942 Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)1939 The Movies March On
as Masha1930 Redemption
as Lola1930 Call of the Flesh
as Josephita1929 Tide of Empire
as Madge1929 The Pagan
as Rose Morris1928 The Michigan Kid
as Henriette1928 A Certain Young Man
as Maryana1928 The Cossacks
as Marie de Floriet1928 Forbidden Hours
as Catharine1928 The Mating Call
as Herself (uncredited)1928 Show People
as Cleo d'Alzelle1928 The Spieler
as Marcelle1927 Heaven on Earth
as Renee DeBois1927 Back to God's Country
as Musette1927 On Ze Boulevard
as Nang Ping1927 Mr. Wu
as Salome1927 The Show
as Fifi Lorraine1926 The Blackbird
as Peggy Nolan1926 Blarney
as Musette1926 La Bohème
as Carita1926 Tin Gods
as Jeanne-Marie1926 The Flaming Forest
as Silda1926 The Exquisite Sinner
as herself1925 1925 Studio Tour
as Melisande1925 The Big Parade
as Suzette1925 Man and Maid
as Marie1925 Parisian Nights
as Elise Moran1925 Exchange of Wives
as Francine1925 Excuse Me
as Wildcat1924 A Man's Mate
as Lucia Brescia1924 Defying the Law
as Petra1924 The Bandolero
as Becky Keeler1924 Women Who Give
as Andree Grange1923 The Eternal Struggle
as Eugénie Danglars1922 Monte Cristo
as Mary Allen Sayre1922 Mixed Faces
as Anita Gray1922 A Self-Made Man
as Della Moore1922 West of Chicago
as Moira Serern1922 Honor First
as The Girl (as Renee Adoree)1922 Day Dreams
as Miss Lowry1921 Made in Heaven
as Claudia1920 The Strongest
as Irene1918 £500 Reward

Full Name: Renata Renée Adorée
Born: Friday, 09/30 1898 (September) in Lille, Nord (France)
Died: Friday, 10/06 1933 (October) in Los Angeles (aged: 35)
Zodiac sign: Libra (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: French (FR)
Spouses (current/former): Tom Moore
Other names for Renée Adorée (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Jeanne de la Fonte"
"Renee Adoree"
"Renee La Fonte"
"Émilia Louisa Victoria REEVES"
Renée Adorée frequently works together with these people:
Cedric Gibbons (12x, Crew)
John Gilbert (11x, Actor)
Lew Cody (7x, Actor)
Ramon Novarro (6x, Actor)
King Vidor (6x, Crew)
Tod Browning (5x, Crew)
Irving Thalberg (5x, Crew)
Conrad Nagel (5x, Actor)
William Axt (5x, Crew)
Lionel Barrymore (4x, Actor)
Bernard McConville (4x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:720252, Added: 10/31/2018, Last updated: 03/29/2024