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Teddie
Gerard (born Thérése Théodora Gérard Cabrié, May 2, 1890[2]
– August 31, 1942) was an Argentine film actress[1]
and entertainer of the early 20th century. She was a friend of
Tallulah
Bankhead, and introduced her to Radclyffe Hall and
Una Troubridge.
Teddie Gerard stunned audiences in 1915 with her appearance in a backless gown
while behind her a chorus of male crooners sang, ‘Glad to see You’re Back,
Dear Lady’. The defection of Teddie’s lover Etheline to Eileen Bliss got
everyone gossiping, but Teddie herself seemed unperturbed. She was a
hard-drinking, promiscuous adventuress with a drug habit.
Gerard first performed at the
Casino Theatre on
Broadway in
New York City, in February 1909. She appeared in the chorus of
Havana. Later she followed
Gaby
Deslys as the dancing partner of Harry Pilcer.[1]
Gerard was in a
Flo Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic production on the New Amsterdam Roof
in
New York City, in August 1920.[3]
She was a singer and dancer in revues in
London, England, and
Paris, France, during the 1910s and 1920s. She performed in The Wedding
Glide and Eclipse, written by
E. Phillips Oppenheim. In 1921 Gerard was cast in the motion picture
The Cave Girl. She acted in The Rat, a theatrical production
taken from a work penned by David L'Estrange. The presentation was staged at
the Colonial Theatre in London in 1925.[1]
Doddy Durand; Teddie Gerard, by Bassano Ltd, whole-plate glass negative, 1914
She wed Joseph Raymond, an American theatrical agent, in
Newark, New Jersey, in 1908.[2]
She was engaged to actor Tom Douglas in 1926.[4]
In October 1928 Gerard announced her engagement to Captain Archie Grant of the
Grenadier Guards, a son of the Scottish
laird. The
wedding was planned for a
fortnight
later, at
Effingham,
Surrey, where Gerard owned a cottage
since 1923.[2]
Gwen Farrar leased a property called Grove Paddock, near Gerard. Farrar’s lease ended in 1938,
however Gwen and her partner Norah Blaney returned to Effingham in later years, paying a visit to the very ill Teddie Gerard, sometime before her death at the end of August 1942.
Gerard became seriously ill with an infection of her right lung in March
1929. She was confined to a nursing home in the
West End of London.[5]
She died following an extended illness in London in 1942. She was 52 years
old.[2]
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddie_Gerard
- Nicholson, Virginia. Singled Out (posizioni nel Kindle 4261-4263).
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