Vintage Studio Harcourt real photo postcard portrait of the French actress in profile, smoking a cigarette, captioned "Françoise Rozay" [sic], signed and inscribed in blue ink across the lower image: "Pour [Mademoiselle] H. de Putiloff / sympathiquement / F. Rosay." With scalloped edges. Small surface mark at the earring, else fine. 3.5 x 5.5 inches; 9 x 13.7 cm. From the autograph collection of Hélène de Poutiloff, who was active in the French Resistance before emigrating to the US in 1953.
Rosay was one of the great character actresses of French cinema, celebrated for La Kermesse héroïque (1935), directed by her husband Jacques Feyder.
“In France, one is not an actor if one has not been photographed by the Harcourt Studio” writes philosopher Roland Barthes in Mythologies (1957).
Vintage Studio Harcourt real photo postcard portrait of the French actress in profile, smoking a cigarette, captioned "Françoise Rozay" [sic], signed and inscribed in blue ink across the lower image: "Pour [Mademoiselle] H. de Putiloff / sympathiquement / F. Rosay." With scalloped edges. Small surface mark at the earring, else fine. 3.5 x 5.5 inches; 9 x 13.7 cm. From the autograph collection of Hélène de Poutiloff, who was active in the French Resistance before emigrating to the US in 1953.
Rosay was one of the great character actresses of French cinema, celebrated for La Kermesse héroïque (1935), directed by her husband Jacques Feyder.
“In France, one is not an actor if one has not been photographed by the Harcourt Studio” writes philosopher Roland Barthes in Mythologies (1957).