Yvonne Garrick


Yvonne Garrick was a French stage actress.

Early life

Marie-Berthe Yvonne Garrick was born at Louhans or Charolles. She studied acting with Maurice de Féraudy at the Conservatoire de Paris. She won the highest prize among female students when she graduated from the Conservatoire in 1900.

Career

In Paris

Garrick was a new actress when she appeared in Château Historique in 1900 at the Theatre National de l'Odéon. She played the title role in Psyche, and appeared in Le Mariage de Figaro, Colinette, and La Nuit de Mai, at the Odéon, all in 1901. Garrick appeared in Le Luxe des Autres at the Odéon in 1902.With the Comédie-Française in 1905, she played Jessica in Shylock, ou le Marchand de Venice. She played the title role in Jeanne Qui Rit at the Théatre Rejane in 1908. In 1909, back at the Odéon, she starred in Le Poussin. She starred in Edouard Pailleron's comedy Le Monde où l'on s'ennuie with the Comédie Francaise, and she returned to that show to the United States.

In North America

Garrick's New York debut came in 1915, in the farce Mon Ami Teddy. She reprised her role in Le Monde où l'on s'ennuie and was also in Arsène Lupin and La Sacrifiee, all at New York's Theatre Francais in the spring of 1916. In 1919, she starred in Frou Frou in Montréal, and in Le Gendre de M. Poirier at the Theatre du Vieux Columbier; and she was in a company at the Lenox Little Theater. In 1920, Garrick toured the United States in three short plays, opposite Belgian actor Carlo Liten; she also appeared in Musk on Broadway that year. In 1921 she gave a recitation at a reception for French ambassador Jean Jules Jusserand given by the Cercle Rochambeau in New York.

World War I benefit performances

In January 1916, Garrick was part of a group of actresses and writers to read letters from Edith Wharton's The Book of the Homeless, at a fundraising event for war relief causes, at art gallery in New York. She was on the programs of wartime benefit shows in 1918, including a concert for Secours Franco-Americain at the Ritz-Carlton and a Lake Placid, NY fundraiser for the American Friends of Musicians in France.

Personal life

There were published rumors that Garrick would marry wealthy American James Hazen Hyde in 1906. A photograph in the Library of Congress shows her as "Yvonne Garrick Garchery" in the 1910s.