Marie Louise Anna Beaudet (December , â€" December , ) was a Canadian
actress, singer and dancer for more than years, starred in stage
productions ranging from comic opera to Shakespeare, as well as
music-hall and vaudeville, and appeared in silent films.Although she
would say that she was born in Tours, France, Marie Louise Anna
Beaudet was baptised in the parish of Saint-Louis-de-Lotbinière,
province of Québec, Canada, in December . She was the ninth child of
Marie-Élisabeth (Eliza) Jobin dit Boisvert (-?) and farmer Clément
Beaudet (-). The tragic loss of her father in and the subsequent move
to Montréal deeply affected her childhood years. She was uprooted
again in when her mother married Nathaniel B. Clapp and settled in
Boston, Massachusetts. Eliza divorced her second husband six years
later and moved to New York City with Louise and eldest daughter Marie
Arceline (Amy).Louise performed in amateur productions of H.M.S.
Pinafore before being "discovered" by actor Frank Drew of the famous
Drew-Barrymore clan who offered her the role of Violet in his
production of The Life of an Artist and the major role of Fanchon in
Fanchon, The Cricket, in January and February , at the Budlong's Opera
House in Jersey City. In March of that year, she was hired by James C.
Duff to play the duchess in The Little Duke at Booth's Theatre in New
York and in the fall, Maurice Grau's French Opera Company gave her the
same role of Blanche, la duchesse de Parthenay, in the American
version of Le Petit Duc. The French actress Maire-Aimée Tronchon,
known as Mlle Aimée, who starred in this production, took Louise
under her wing. "Anything that I have ever done in comic opera I owe
to Aimée", she would later confide to Alan Dale.Shortly after, she
joined the Baldwin Theatre Stock Company of San Francisco where she
played the ingénue roles. It was there that she met one of the
greatest dramatic actors of that period the actor Daniel E. Bandmann
who encouraged her to take on more serious roles and with whom she
became romantically involved. They founded a theatrical touring
company, Beaudet playing all of Shakespeare’s principal female roles
to Bandmann's leading men. They toured the world together for nearly
four years, covering more than , miles. They continued touring
successfully in North America and England with such productions as A
Strange Case, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Narcisse, East Lynn, The Corsican
Brothers, etc. before ending their famous relationship in .
actress, singer and dancer for more than years, starred in stage
productions ranging from comic opera to Shakespeare, as well as
music-hall and vaudeville, and appeared in silent films.Although she
would say that she was born in Tours, France, Marie Louise Anna
Beaudet was baptised in the parish of Saint-Louis-de-Lotbinière,
province of Québec, Canada, in December . She was the ninth child of
Marie-Élisabeth (Eliza) Jobin dit Boisvert (-?) and farmer Clément
Beaudet (-). The tragic loss of her father in and the subsequent move
to Montréal deeply affected her childhood years. She was uprooted
again in when her mother married Nathaniel B. Clapp and settled in
Boston, Massachusetts. Eliza divorced her second husband six years
later and moved to New York City with Louise and eldest daughter Marie
Arceline (Amy).Louise performed in amateur productions of H.M.S.
Pinafore before being "discovered" by actor Frank Drew of the famous
Drew-Barrymore clan who offered her the role of Violet in his
production of The Life of an Artist and the major role of Fanchon in
Fanchon, The Cricket, in January and February , at the Budlong's Opera
House in Jersey City. In March of that year, she was hired by James C.
Duff to play the duchess in The Little Duke at Booth's Theatre in New
York and in the fall, Maurice Grau's French Opera Company gave her the
same role of Blanche, la duchesse de Parthenay, in the American
version of Le Petit Duc. The French actress Maire-Aimée Tronchon,
known as Mlle Aimée, who starred in this production, took Louise
under her wing. "Anything that I have ever done in comic opera I owe
to Aimée", she would later confide to Alan Dale.Shortly after, she
joined the Baldwin Theatre Stock Company of San Francisco where she
played the ingénue roles. It was there that she met one of the
greatest dramatic actors of that period the actor Daniel E. Bandmann
who encouraged her to take on more serious roles and with whom she
became romantically involved. They founded a theatrical touring
company, Beaudet playing all of Shakespeare’s principal female roles
to Bandmann's leading men. They toured the world together for nearly
four years, covering more than , miles. They continued touring
successfully in North America and England with such productions as A
Strange Case, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Narcisse, East Lynn, The Corsican
Brothers, etc. before ending their famous relationship in .
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