Camille D'elmar
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Camille d'Elmar | |
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| Born | Geraldine Lodge 1860 Rochester, New York |
| Died | September 25, 1902 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Mrs. Richard Baker |
| Occupation | Actress |
Camille d'Elmar (born Geraldine Lodge) (1860 – September 26, 1902) was a stage actress and opera performer from Rochester, New York. Her father was Dr. Charles Lodge of Rochester. She appeared on stage as a youth. d'Elmar was the name she was known by to theater audiences in America and England. Her married name was Mrs. Richard Baker.
When she was six years old d'Elmar appeared with Joseph Jefferson in Rip Van Winkle at the Varieties Theater in New Orleans, Louisiana. She went to England as a child. As a teenager she became popular in London, England, as an actress of singing chambermaids. This was the term given soubrette roles at the time.
d'Elmar returned to America with Emily Soldene for a role in Genevieve de Brabant by Jacques Offenbach. She played other opera bouffes and toured in Frivolity. d'Elmar was with the Frank Daniels Company for a time. She was in a production of A Legal Wreck.
Camille D'elmar was part of the 1896 theater company performing at the Theatre Francis located in Montreal. On March 2, 1896, the company opened the play "The Black Flag" which was followed by more productions.
d'Elmar died in the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, following an operation for cancer in 1902. She was 41.
Her husband, Richard Baker, was the stage manager of the Grand Opera House in Philadelphia. He cast her for a role in a revival of The Great Ruby, a production which began the week d'Elmar died.
References[edit]
- Graham, Franklin (1902). Historic Montreal: Annals of the Montreal stage, with biographical and critical notices of the plays and players of a century. Montreal: J. Lovell. pp. 293–294.
- "Camille d'Elmar Dead". The New York Times. September 26, 1902. p. 7.
- 19th-century American actresses
- American stage actresses
- American expatriate actresses
- American expatriates in the United Kingdom
- American opera singers
- Actresses from Rochester, New York
- 1860 births
- 1902 deaths
- Deaths from cancer in Pennsylvania
- 19th-century American singers
- 19th-century American women singers