Paulette del Baye (1877 – 23 May 1945), born Catalina Francisca Paulina Batalla, was a French actress, singer, dancer and vaudeville performer from Cuba.
Career Paulette del Baye performed as "La commère au bois" in the revue at the Moulin Rouge in 1904. "Paulette del Baye est une comédienne fine, une chanteuse spirituelle, une danseuse exquise, qui fait de véritables tours de force d'art en souriant," said one report about the revue."La revue de Moulin Rouge" Paris qui chante (11 December 1904): 2, 6. She created the role of "Zézé" in Vous n'avez rien a declarer? (1906) at the Théâtre des Nouveautés,Maurice Hennequin & Pierre Veber, Vous n'avez rien a declarer? Pièce en trois actes (Paris 1906). via Internet Archive and also appeared in Les plaques de l'Année (1906) in Paris."Les plaques de l'Année" La Revue Théâtrale (March 1906): 1356. In London, she was seen in More (1916),"Prince's Theatre: A New Revue" The Guardian (23 May 1916): 10. via Newspapers.com Arlette (1917),"A Well-Known Parisienne" The Tatler (4 July 1917): 22. and The Passing Show of 1918 (1918).Advertisement, The Guardian (27 July 1918): 1. via Newspapers.com In 1917 a comic opera was based on her life, and named Paulette del Baye."Inside Life, Opera's Plot" Variety (June 1917): 4. via Internet Archive
Paulette del Baye's film credits included four silent pictures from 1921: Greatheart, Frailty, The Fruitful Vine, and The Woman with the Fan; she also appeared in the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Man with the Twisted Lip.Denis Gifford, The British Film Catalogue: The Fiction Film (Routledge 2020).
Other activities In 1909, she was one of the "fair actresses" implicated in a plot to restore the French monarchy, "but in these days of automobiles and swift yachts," one report explained, "it is exceedingly difficult to follow the lead of the young and charming Mlle. del Baye"."Fair Actresses in Plot to Restore Monarchy Are Watched by Police" Columbus Evening Dispatch (21 June 1909): 9. via Newspapers.com
Personal life Paulette del Baye held the title Comtesse de Brioude.Antoine Delécraz, 1914, Paris pendant la mobilisation, notes d'un immobilisé, des faits, des gestes, des mots (1914): 51. via Internet Archive She died in England in 1945.
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