Death of Renee Adoree In Sanatorium

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7284, 11 October 1933, Page 5

Death of Renee Adoree In Sanatorium

NOTED STAR OF SILENT FILMS ROSE FROM CIRCUS

Jeanne de la Fonte was the real name of Renee Adoree, the film actress whose death In a Hollywood

sanatorium from tuberculosis was announced last week. She was born in 1902 in a circus tent at Lille, in France, and she picked up her education while “troupimg” with her parents who were circus performers. At the age of 10 she became a dancer in her father’s act and toured all over the world with him.

She had ambition and talents, and while still young became a dancer in the Folies Bergere in Paris. Then sho danced in a London cabaret; and from there she went to America. Her screen career began with a picture based on tho life of Clomenceau, entitled “The Strongest.”- She married, and some time later divorced, William Gill.

Reneo Adoreo was one of the most noted of silent film stars, her many pictures including “Tho Big Parade,” “La Boheme,” “The Cossacks,” “Mr Wu,” and “Monte Cristo.” Sho specialised in the roles of vivacious little French girls. When the talkies came she made a few pictures, including “Redemption,” and “Call of tho Flesh,” but after completing the latter film in 1930 she was taken seriously iIL Quite recently she announced that she hoped to return to the studios in the spring of this year.

A talkie “life” of Martin Luther, the German Teligious reformer, has been produced in Berlin for exhibition ■at German cinemas on November 10, the 450th anniversary of Luther’s death. A silent film on the same subject was banned some years, ago by the British Board of Film Censors on religious grounds. <s> <s> <3> <J> President Roosevelt ia a character in the new Edward G. Robinson pictme “I Loved a Woman.” The part will be played by E. J. RatcliSe, an EngHghmaa, .y