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Darling Légitimus
Acting

Darling Légitimus
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1907-11-21,Le Carbet, Martinique
Gender
Female
Biography
Mathilda Marie Berthilde Paruta (21 November 1907 – 7 December 1999), better known as Darling Légitimus, was a French actress. In 1983, she received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her performance in the film Sugar Cane Alley. Born on 21 November 1907 at Le Carbet in Martinique, she spent her early years in Caracas, Venezuela. Mathilda Paruta arrived in Paris, France, at age of 16, wanting to become a dancer. She met Victor-Etienne Légitimus, son of the government deputy, Hegesippe Jean Légitimus, and went on to become his lifelong companion and bear him five children. Known for a long time as Miss Darling, she later chose to go by the name of Darling Legitimus. She performed as a dancer in La Revue Nègre (1925) with Josephine Baker, and posed for Picasso as well as for sculptor Paul Belmondo, father of Jean-Paul Belmondo, the actor. During the 1930s, Darling wrote, composed and sang numerous Caribbean songs such as Biguine and Mazurka. She often performed alongside known musicians of the era, including "Pe En Kin Sosso" and his band. She also performed in plays by Jean Genet (Les Nègres) and Aimé Césaire. She was directed on the big screen by Raymond Rouleau in Les Sorcieres de Salem (The Crucible) alongside Simone Signoret and Yves Montand, and Le Salaire de la Peur (Wages of Fear) by Henri Georges Clouzot, with Sacha Guitry, Jean-Claude Brialy and Bernardo Bertolucci. In 1983, at the age of 76, she won the Volpi Cup for the best female interpretation of "The Mostra of Venise", also for her role in La Rue Cases-Nègres (Sugar Cane Alley), directed by her compatriot Euzhan Palcy. During her long life, she was acquainted with a great number of famous actors, among them Arletty, Fernandel, Marlon Brando and Pierre Brasseur. She also took part in numerous ORTF (Office de Radio-diffusion de la Television Française) productions, of which a telefilm by Jean-Christophe Averty, Les verts Paturages (The Green Pastures, written by Marc Connelly), was produced. She died on 7 December 1999 at Kremlin-Bicetre in the Val de Marne near Paris, in France, without any more acting roles after Sugar Cane Alley in spite of hopes of her nomination and rewards. The writer, Calixthe Beyala and Caribbean actor Luc Saint-Eloy, representatives of "Liberté" collective came up on stage at the César ceremony in 2000, to claim one of the largest presence on French television screens and to pay her a public tribute, since the organizers had "forgotten" to name Darling as one of the previous year's great losses. Source: Article "Darling Légitimus" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

5.667

The Doll
1962-11-07

Sugar Cane Alley

6.778

Sugar Cane Alley
1983-09-21

A Friend Will Come Tonight

6.143

A Friend Will Come Tonight
1946-04-09

Le Bateau à soupe

7.5

Le Bateau à soupe
1947-02-19

Les trois cousines

8

Les trois cousines
1947-12-10

The Road to Damascus

8

The Road to Damascus
1952-12-11

7

Tourbillon
1953-10-02

Flesh and the Woman

4.222

Flesh and the Woman
1954-06-08

10

A Missionary
1955-12-02

Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques

5.939

Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
1971-02-10

6.5

Églantine
1972-02-25

The Wages of Fear

8.013

The Wages of Fear
1953-04-22

La Dernière Bourrée à Paris

5.5

La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
1973-10-31

The Ghostly Rental

7.7

The Ghostly Rental
1965-04-17

Women Are Like That

5.875

Women Are Like That
1960-09-20

The Witches of Salem

6.9

The Witches of Salem
1957-04-26

Les verts pâturages

5

Les verts pâturages
1964-12-31

The Fire Within

7.6

The Fire Within
1963-10-15

Three Feet in a Bed

6.167

Three Feet in a Bed
1950-04-19

The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside

5.208

The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
1976-01-07

La bande du Rex

10

La bande du Rex
1980-04-29

Last Tango in Paris

6.903

Last Tango in Paris
1972-12-15

8

Discorama
1959-02-04