Odette Myrtil
Biography
Odette Myrtil was an American actress, singer, and violinist of French birth. Born in Paris to two stage actors, she studied violin in Brussels and was performing professionally as a teenager. She joined the Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway in 1915, then achieved a major success in London in the 1916 revue The Bing Boys Are Here. From 1924 to 1932 she was a Broadway staple, and she had a triumph in The Cat and the Fiddle, a 1931 Jerome Kern musical created as a vehicle for her. In the early 1950s she portrayed Bloody Mary in the original South Pacific run. On screen she specialized in character roles, starting with her first speaking part in Dodsworth (1936), and she later appeared in Kitty Foyle (1940), Out of the Fog (1941), The Fighting Kentuckian (1949), and The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954), where she sang the title song. She also designed costumes for nine films between 1944 and 1950.
80years old at death
- Born 8th arrondissement of Paris
- Died Doylestown
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
- Odette Laure Clotilde Quignard (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 18 years1936 to 1954
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First role
Myrtil started out as a violinist at 14, playing vaudeville in Paris. At 18 she found her first big success on the London stage, in the 1916 musical revue The Bing Boys Are Here.
Big break
Myrtil scored a particular triumph as Odette in The Cat and the Fiddle, Jerome Kern's 1931 musical, which had been written specifically to serve as a vehicle for her.
A change of course
Myrtil spent the years 1944 to 1950 working as a costume designer, and during that time she was responsible for nine motion pictures.
A first
During her career, Myrtil appeared on television just once. That single appearance came in the 1953 Studio One in Hollywood episode titled "The Paris Feeling".
Early training
At a boarding school in Brussels, Myrtil took up the violin. She was 13 when she started playing the instrument professionally.
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