Louise Falk
| Louise Falk | |
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| Born: | October 25, 1911 |
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| Died: | August 4, 1999 |
| Nationality: |  American
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Louise Falk (née Kanazireff) was the first wife of Lee Falk from 1935 until 1944 (1945 ?). The surname has been written slightly differently as a result of the transliteration from Bulgarian Cyrillic orthography to the Latin alphabet.
Biography
Louise is the daughter of Vladimir and Lillian (née Rooch) Kanazireff. Vladimir Kanazireff, a native of Macedonia fought in the Balkan wars and World War I, and later served as Bulgarian consul to Leningrad (Petrograd). He met Lillian Rooch of St. Louis, while studying at the Sorbonne in Paris [1]. They married in 1910 and Louise was born in St. Louis when her mother visited her family [2].
At the age of 5, Louise had her first public stage performance as one of the specialty dancers ("Chickens") in the play "The Broken Doll" [3]. The play was presented at the Jefferson Theatre in St. Louis, to celebrate the end of the scholastic year of the Mahler School of Dancing. The next year Louise she danced dressed as a aeroplane in the play "Miss Yankey Doosle" at Jefferson Theatre [4]. At the Odeon Louise was part of the cast, performing in the play "The Golden Years to celebrate Jacob Mahler's fiftieth anniversary as a teacher of dancing in St. Louis [5]. In 1921 Louise was part of the dance recital at Wedensday Club Auditorium as one of Irma Summa's pupils [6]. Louise was one of the dancers in the operetta "On Plymouthe Rock", as part of the lawn show given for the Post-Dospatch Free Ice for Babies' Milk Fund at the Francis Home, Newstead and Maryland avenues [7].
In 1921 Vladimir Kanaziref moved permanently to St. Louis.
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After graduate Roosevelt High School [8] Louise attended the Washington University [9].
She married Leon H. E. Falk in 1935 [10], and after graduating in 1936 they moved to New York City. In NY Louise studying with Frances Robinson Duff [11], but the newly married couple also traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East the next two years.
In 1939 Louise made her debut in the Farragut Playhouse at Rye Beach (New Hampshire) as part of their resident company [12]. Louise and Lee's daughter Valerie was born May 23, 1940. This year Lee Falk had been involved in the Cambridge Summer Theatre and Louise acted as part of their resident company from 1941. Due to Lee Falk's WWII obligation Louise also took care of Lee's responsibilities at the Cambridge Summer Theatre in the years 1942 to 1944.
Louise changed her acting name to Louise Valery in 1943. Lee Falk and Louise were divorced, and in 1945 Louise remarried with Richard Hart. After the death of her husband in 1951 Louise remarried Peter Cadby.
Behind the scenes
Louise have been used as name for characters in Mandrake strips once:
| Year | Daily/Sunday | Title | Comments |
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| 1956 | Sunday | "The Miss Galaxy Beauty Contest" | as Louisa of Bulgarn |
Note
References
- ↑ "Vladimir Kanazireff dies; ex-teacher in High Schools" St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) 31 December 1962, p 9
- ↑ New York, Passenger List, 1820-1957 - "La Touraine" Arrival Date 24 Jul 1911
- ↑ The St. Louis Star and Times (St. Louis, Missouri) 16 May 1917, p 4
- ↑ The St. Louis Star and Times (St. Louis, Missouri) 17 May 1918, p 11
- ↑ The St. Louis Star and Times (St. Louis, Missouri) 27 May 1919, p 9
- ↑ St. Louis Post-Dispatc (St. Louis, Missouri) 22 May 1921, p 46
- ↑ St. Louis Post-Dispatc (St. Louis, Missouri) 13 June 1923, p 11
- ↑ Bwana Yearbook (St Louis, MO) - Class of 1932
- ↑ The Hatchet (St Louis, MO), p 47, 107
- ↑ St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) 1 October 1935, p 21
- ↑ "obituaries - Louise K. Cadby" The Star-Democrat (Easton, Maryland), p 12
- ↑ Portsmouth Herald: August 2, 1939 p 6; August 23, 1939 p 6
External links
- Ancestry.com; Passenger Lists, U.S. School Yearbooks, Census and Voter Lists
- The Harvard Crimson; Playgoer articles
- Billboard magazines 1940-1946
- Richard Hart