Léonie Yahne Explained
Léonie Yahne (August 8, 1867 – April 26, 1950) was a French comedic actress.
Early life
Marie Léonie Jahn was born at Versailles, France. She used a different spelling of her surname professionally, to reflect its pronunciation.[1]
Career
Yahne was an actress on the Paris stage for most of her career, which lasted from about 1884 to 1917. Her stage roles included Lucienne in Monsieur l'Abbé (1891),[2] Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac (1900), opposite Benoît-Constant Coquelin,[3] [4] the title part in Catulle Mendès's La Reine Fiammette (1898),[5] Huguette in Famille (1901).[6] and Adinolfa in Impressions d'Afrique (1912).[7] In 1895, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec drew her with her co-stars André Antoine and Henry Mayer in L'Age Difficile.[8] She also appeared in at least one silent film short, Le duel de Max (1913) with Max Linder.
In 1911 she won a lawsuit against another Parisian actress calling herself "Yane", preventing the other woman from using a stage name that so closely resembled her own. An English magazine referred to Yahne as "a favorite in society, an expert with foils, a passionate horsewoman, and a terror of France on her automobile."[9]
Personal life
Léonie Yahne owned a property in Louveciennes, named Villa Fiammette after one of her best-known roles. [10] She died in Paris in 1950, aged 82 years.
External links
Notes and References
- John Henry Wigmore, Select Cases on the Law of Torts (Little, Brown 1912): 960.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=ZEjOAAAAMAAJ&dq=Leonie+Yahne&pg=PA338 "New Plays Produced in Paris"
- https://books.google.com/books?id=0cJOAQAAMAAJ&dq=Leonie+Yahne&pg=PA508 "From Abroad"
- https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/french-comedian-leonie-yahne-as-roxane-in-play-cyrano-de-news-photo/89865745#french-comedian-leonie-yahne-as-roxane-in-play-cyrano-de-bergerac-by-picture-id89865745 "French comedian Léonie Yahne as Roxane in play 'Cyrano de Bergerac'"
- R. S. W., "Catulle Mendès's Play, 'Queen Fiammetta'" The Theatre Magazine (October 1902): 16.
- https://www.gettyimages.ae/detail/news-photo/french-comedian-leonie-yahne-as-huguette-in-play-famille-news-photo/89869064#french-comedian-leonie-yahne-as-huguette-in-play-famille-paris-from-picture-id89869064 "French comedian Léonie Yahne as Huguette in play 'Famille'"
- https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/french-comedian-leonie-yahne-as-adinolfa-in-play-news-photo/89868399#french-comedian-leonie-yahne-as-adinolfa-in-play-impressions-dafrique-picture-id89868399 "French comedian Leonie Yahne as Adinolfa in play 'Impressions d'Afrique'"
- Colta Feller Ives, Toulouse-Lautrec in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art 1996): 66.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=C29EAQAAMAAJ&q=Yahne&pg=PA196 "Beauty on the Paris Stage"
- William C. Carter, Marcel Proust: A Life (Yale University Press 2002): 452.
