Person:Alice Gachet (1)

Yvelines - Le Vésinet 1881-1883 (Registres paroissiaux et d'état-civil)
> Commune: Le Vésinet / Collection: Départementale / Cote: 2084653 / Actes: NMD / Dates: 1881-1883 / Images: (305 images)
A birth registered on 26 May, 1882 in the commune of Le Vésinet in the department of Yvelines in the Île-de-France.
« … un enfant du sexe féminin qu’il nous a dit être né hier (le vingt-cinq mai) en son domicile a huit heures et demie du matin de lui (Charles Louis Emile Gachet de la Fournière) et de Maud Chamberlin son épouse … et dequel enfant il a donné les prénoms de Alice Maud Marguerite …. »
["… a female child who he has told us was born yesterday (May 25th) in his home at half past eight in the morning of him (Charles Louis Emile Gachet de la Fournière) and of his wife Maud Chamberlin … and which child has been given the first names of Alice Maud Marguerite…."
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« Alice Gachet Biography / Overview:
Born: May 25, 1882 in France
Died: October 27, 1960 in Kensington, London, England, UK
Birth Name: Alice Maude Marguerite Gachet
Mini Bio:
Alice Gachet was born on May 25, 1882 in France as Alice Maude Marguerite Gachet. She was an actress, known for Bedelia (1946), Katy's Love Affair (1947) and Doctor Knock (1938). She died on October 27, 1960 in Kensington, London, England. »
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Obituary: ALICE GACHET
« ALICE MARY [sic]* GACHET DE LA FOURN1ERE, the actress and producer, died on October 27. She taught French acting at RADA, among her private pupils being John Gielgud.
Brian Oulton writes:**
One evening last week, “suddenly and peacefully,” Alice Gachet died of heart failure. It was a perfect exit, for she was as alert, as wise, and as joyous as ever when she made it. She was always too youthful to grow old, too buoyant to know decline, and too brave to be defeated by illness. She was the warmest and wittiest of companions, and the truest and most admirable of friends.
But there was one thing that this unselfish woman never realised the grief that would spread through the English theatre at the news of her death. For she was unique as a personality and as a teacher. She appeared in West End plays, such as “Men in Shadow” and “Old Acquaintance.” She directed French plays at the Arts and English ones at the “Q.” But it was as the French producer at the RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) that she won her lasting fame. She was the greatest teacher of French acting to English students that it is possible to imagine.
Some of our most famous players were her pupils, and all would acknowledge their debt to her. When Charles Laughton appeared at the Comédie Francaise, he did not hesitate to give her the credit for his triumph. She was a great ambassador for her country. It is safe to say that whenever the countless English players who knew and loved her speak of the French Theatre, Gachet will be in all their minds. »
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* Alice Gachet had two middle names: Maud (after her mother) and Marguerite (after her paternal grandmother).^S1
** Brian Oulton (1908-1992) was an English "character actor", who made his acting debut in 1939. > Brian Oulton on Wikipedia

« ... In particular, I was attached to the classes given by Alice Gachet, a French lady who had been with the Comédie-Française in Paris. It was she who had trained the great actor Charles Laughton, who had first drawn my attention to the Royal Academy. He, when he had been at the Academy, had been in her French class and had blossomed to such an extent that at the height of his fame—not long after he won the Oscar—he went to France and played in French with the company at the Comédie-Française, and slew them! So I thought, "I must get into Alice Gachet's class and work in French." But of course, I didn't know any French! So I started to go, in whatever time I could steal—I always seemed to have had a kind of 23-hour-a-day schedule—to evening classes in order to learn enough French to get me through the rehearsals with Madame Gachet the following day. These evening classes were given by the LCC—the London County Council—and were elementary lessons in French meant for the so-called deserving students. I represented myself as deserving, and I can still remember some of the lines from a character I played called Albert in a French play the title of which loosely translates into Love's Lunacies. I recall precisely the entire final speech from that play, which I learned way back in 1935 as a student. I felt that was all very beneficial. It certainly was when I got to Canada many years later and started to actually work in French. .... »
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