Aída Olivier Explained

thumb|Aída OlivierAída Olivier (1911, Buenos Aires - 2 August 1998, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine dancer, vedette and actress of cinema and theatre.

Biography

Olivier was of French ancestry. She was notable for her dance interpretations, especially in the Teatro Maipo during the 1920s and 1930s. She made her cinema debut in 1935 in the film Buenos Aires Nights, directed by Manuel Romero and two years later appeared in Busco un marido para mi mujer under director Arturo S. Mom. In the 1930s, she was in a relationship with Pepe Arias, appearing with him in Maestro Levita (1938).

After Arturo García Buhr ended a romance with Tita Merello, Olivier and Buhr become a couple in 1950. Pursued by the government of Juan Perón as a result of her political convictions, they escaped to Chile in 1951 and settled in Uruguay before returning to Argentina in 1955 after the fall of the government. Their relationship ended with Buhr's suicide on 4 October 1995.^[1]

Olivier died by natural causes in Buenos Aires in 1998. She was buried in the pantheon of SADAIC for Argentinian Association of Actors at the Cemetery of the Chacarita.^[2]

Theatre

• The coral (1933)^[3]
• Varied magazines (1935)
• The crazy hour (1938) and New Broom sweeps (1938), with Pepe Arias, Marcos Caplán, Lely Morel, Ángela Cuenca and Alicia Barrié.
• Confession, with Gloria Guzmán, Azucena Maizani, María Esther Ranges, Pepe Arias and Alejandro Farías
• Playing happens the life (1939), with Carlos Ramírez, Severo Fernández, and the company of Luis César Amadori
• Decimelo With music! (1940)
• Three things there is in the life! (1940)
• Quo vadis Argentinus (1944)
• My beloved daughters (1944)
• The invasion of the good humour (1944)
• There are “dreams" that are mules! (1946) with Thelma Carló, Marcos Caplán, Sofia Bozán, Dringue Farías, Gloria Ramírez and Mario Fortuna
• That fry to walk if helmet! (1946).
• The Petite Hutte (1951)
• With water in the hands (1951)
• The small cabana (1951)
• Rigoberto (1951)
• The man of the umbrella (1957), with Arturo García Buhr, Helena Cortesina and Juan Serrador.^[4]
• My woman, the Swede and I (1967)
• We two (1994)

Filmography

• My woman, the Swedish and I (1967)
• Mi novia es un fantasma (1944)
• I look for a husband for my woman (1938)
• Master Levita (1938)
• Buenos Aires Nights (1935)

References

• Book: Manrupe. Raúl. Portela. María Alejandra. Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930-1995). 2001. Buenos Aires Editorial Corregidor. 950-05-0896-6. Spanish.
• Book: Blanco Pazos. Roberto. Raúl . Clemente. Diccionario de actrices del cine argentino 1933-1997. 1997. Buenos Aires Ediciones Corridor. Spanish. 950-05-1077-4.
• News: El adiós a Aída Olivier. 5 May 2012. España. Claudio. La Nación. 4 August 1998. Spanish.

Notes and References

1. Book: Romano, Néstor. Se Dice de Mí-: La Vida de Tita Merello. Spanish. 2001. Sudamericana S.A.. Buenos Aires. 57.
2. Web site: Murió la ex vedette Aída Olivier: La artista, quien fue esposa de Arturo García Buhr, estableció una época brillante en la revista porteña - Catálogo Acceder . 2016-07-01 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20140201173142/http://www.acceder.gov.ar/es/597520 . 2014-02-01 .
3. Web site: Aída Olivier en la danza de "El coral" - Catálogo Acceder . 2016-07-01 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20140201173144/http://www.acceder.gov.ar/es/597518 . 2014-02-01 .
4. Web site: Función extraordinaria de los críticos, en el Presidente Alvear, el lunes 15. - Catálogo Acceder . 2016-07-01 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20140201173049/http://www.acceder.gov.ar/es/615860 . 2014-02-01 .