Fifi D'Orsay (born Marie-Rose Angelina Yvonne Lussier; April 16, 1904 – December 2, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress and singer.
[2] Fifi D'Orsay was born Marie-Rose Angelina Yvonne Lussier[citation needed] in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,[3] to a father who was a postal clerk.
When age put an end to the glamour roles, she took jobs in television; including 2 appearances each on ABC's Adventures in Paradise (as a mother superior in the episode "Castaways"), and the CBS legal drama Perry Mason (in the episodes "The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather" and "The Case of the Bountiful Beauty")—as well as appearing in the CBS sitcom Pete and Gladys.
She was a contestant on Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life (February 23, 1956), and at the age of 67 she bookended her career with a return to the Broadway stage in the Tony Award-winning musical, Follies.
[5] D'Orsay died from cancer, aged 79, on December 2, 1983, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.