Marcelle Maurette (1903â€"1972) was a French playwright and
screenwriter who is particularly well known for her play Anastasia
(1952) which brought her international recognition, and inspired a
film of the same name. It is not her only play centred on a woman with
a tragic story. Many other works of hers feature historical or
fictional heroines with dramatic lives. She was honoured with various
awards and was a prominent French literary figure.Marcelle Marie
Joséphine Maurette was born in Toulouse to General Georges Maurette
and Marie-Louise Donbernard, on 14 November 1903. (See "Birthdate
notes" section lower down page.) She was educated at St. Nom de
Jésus, Toulouse, Cours Bouchut, Paris, and the Convent of the Filles
de Notre Dame, Limoges.[1] The painter Ingres was her
great-great-uncle.She began writing as a teenager: short stories,
articles and poems, for which she won prizes.[2] In 1931 she married
Count Yves de Becdelièvre who would later write a book about her:
Marcelle Maurette, ma femme: journal de sa vie, 1903â€"1972.[3] She
was energetic and outgoing, enjoying socialising with her upper-class
friends as much as her theatre and cinema work.[4]In 1937 Maurette
began to concentrate on writing plays, and in 1942 stopped working as
a journalist and reviewer[5] as she took up screenwriting too.
screenwriter who is particularly well known for her play Anastasia
(1952) which brought her international recognition, and inspired a
film of the same name. It is not her only play centred on a woman with
a tragic story. Many other works of hers feature historical or
fictional heroines with dramatic lives. She was honoured with various
awards and was a prominent French literary figure.Marcelle Marie
Joséphine Maurette was born in Toulouse to General Georges Maurette
and Marie-Louise Donbernard, on 14 November 1903. (See "Birthdate
notes" section lower down page.) She was educated at St. Nom de
Jésus, Toulouse, Cours Bouchut, Paris, and the Convent of the Filles
de Notre Dame, Limoges.[1] The painter Ingres was her
great-great-uncle.She began writing as a teenager: short stories,
articles and poems, for which she won prizes.[2] In 1931 she married
Count Yves de Becdelièvre who would later write a book about her:
Marcelle Maurette, ma femme: journal de sa vie, 1903â€"1972.[3] She
was energetic and outgoing, enjoying socialising with her upper-class
friends as much as her theatre and cinema work.[4]In 1937 Maurette
began to concentrate on writing plays, and in 1942 stopped working as
a journalist and reviewer[5] as she took up screenwriting too.
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