Elvira Popescu

Elvira Popescu (Romanian pronunciation: [elˈvira poˈpesku]; in French, Elvire Popesco; 10 May 1894 – 11 December 1993) was a Romanian-French stage and film actress and theatre director.

Under Verneuil's direction, she played the leading role in Ma Cousine de Varsovie, at the Théâtre Michel (1923).

Elvira Popescu also played in movies, such as La Présidente (Fernand Rivers, 1938), Tricoche et Cacolet (Pierre Colombier, 1938), Ils étaient neuf célibataires (Sacha Guitry, 1939), Paradis perdu (Abel Gance, 1940), Austerlitz (Abel Gance, 1960),[6] and Purple Noon (René Clément, 1960).

[7] After a few years, she divorced, and married Ion Manolescu-Strunga, Minister of Industry and Commerce[3] (who was to die in Sighet Prison in the 1950s).

Her third husband was Count Maximilien Sébastien Foy (born in Paris on 17 April 1900, died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 11 November 1967).

Elvire Popesco painting by Charles Gesmar (1925)
Grave of Elvire Popescu at Père Lachaise Cemetery
Villa Paul Poiret, April 2005
The cinema Sala Elvire Popescu at the Institut Français de Roumanie in Bucharest is named in Popescu's honor