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Darling Légitimus‌

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Birthday

calendar1907-11-21

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Darling Légitimus

Le Carbet, Martinique

Darling Légitimus

Le Carbet, Martinique

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1907-11-21

Popularity

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Biography

Mathilda Marie Berthilde Paruta (21 November 1907 – 7 December 1999), better known as Darling Légitimus, was a French actress. In 1983, she received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her performance in the film Sugar Cane Alley. Born on 21 November 1907 at Le Carbet in Martinique, she spent her early years in Caracas, Venezuela. Mathilda Paruta arrived in Paris, France, at age of 16, wanting to become a dancer. She met Victor-Etienne Légitimus, son of the government deputy, Hegesippe Jean Légitimus, and went on to become his lifelong companion and bear him five children. Known for a long time as Miss Darling, she later chose to go by the name of Darling Legitimus. She performed as a dancer in La Revue Nègre (1925) with Josephine Baker, and posed for Picasso as well as for sculptor Paul Belmondo, father of Jean-Paul Belmondo, the actor. During the 1930s, Darling wrote, composed and sang numerous Caribbean songs such as Biguine and Mazurka. She often performed alongside known musicians of the era, including "Pe En Kin Sosso" and his band. She also performed in plays by Jean Genet (Les Nègres) and Aimé Césaire. She was directed on the big screen by Raymond Rouleau in Les Sorcieres de Salem (The Crucible) alongside Simone Signoret and Yves Montand, and Le Salaire de la Peur (Wages of Fear) by Henri Georges Clouzot, with Sacha Guitry, Jean-Claude Brialy and Bernardo Bertolucci. In 1983, at the age of 76, she won the Volpi Cup for the best female interpretation of "The Mostra of Venise", also for her role in La Rue Cases-Nègres (Sugar Cane Alley), directed by her compatriot Euzhan Palcy. During her long life, she was acquainted with a great number of famous actors, among them Arletty, Fernandel, Marlon Brando and Pierre Brasseur. She also took part in numerous ORTF (Office de Radio-diffusion de la Television Française) productions, of which a telefilm by Jean-Christophe Averty, Les verts Paturages (The Green Pastures, written by Marc Connelly), was produced. She died on 7 December 1999 at Kremlin-Bicetre in the Val de Marne near Paris, in France, without any more acting roles after Sugar Cane Alley in spite of hopes of her nomination and rewards. The writer, Calixthe Beyala and Caribbean actor Luc Saint-Eloy, representatives of "Liberté" collective came up on stage at the César ceremony in 2000, to claim one of the largest presence on French television screens and to pay her a public tribute, since the organizers had "forgotten" to name Darling as one of the previous year's great losses. Source: Article "Darling Légitimus" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movie Credits

The Doll

The Doll‌
star5.0
calendar 1962

Sugar Cane Alley

Sugar Cane Alley‌
star6.7
calendar 1983

A Friend Will Come Tonight

A Friend Will Come Tonight‌
star5.5
calendar 1946

Le Bateau à soupe

Le Bateau à soupe‌
star6.0
calendar 1947

Les trois cousines

Les trois cousines‌
star0.0
calendar 1947

The Road to Damascus

The Road to Damascus‌
star0.0
calendar 1952

Tourbillon

Tourbillon‌
star0.0
calendar 1953

Flesh and the Woman

Flesh and the Woman‌
star4.1
calendar 1954

A Missionary

A Missionary‌
star0.0
calendar 1955

Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques

Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques‌
star5.9
calendar 1971

Églantine

Églantine‌
star6.0
calendar 1972

The Wages of Fear

The Wages of Fear‌
star8.0
calendar 1953

La Dernière Bourrée à Paris

La Dernière Bourrée à Paris‌
star1.0
calendar 1973

The Ghostly Rental

The Ghostly Rental‌
star6.8
calendar 1965

Women Are Like That

Women Are Like That‌
star5.4
calendar 1960

The Witches of Salem

The Witches of Salem‌
star7.0
calendar 1957

Les verts pâturages

Les verts pâturages‌
star5.0
calendar 1964

The Fire Within

The Fire Within‌
star7.6
calendar 1963

Three Feet in a Bed

Three Feet in a Bed‌
star5.6
calendar 1950

The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside

The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside‌
star5.3
calendar 1976

La bande du Rex

La bande du Rex‌
star0.0
calendar 1980

Tv Credits

Discorama

Discorama‌
star0.0
calendar 1959