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Marguerite Moreno
1871–1948
A vivid presence on the French stage and screen, she built a career that stretched from the 1890s into the sound-film era. Her life also touched literary circles, including a marriage to writer Marcel Schwob.
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Une Française en Argentine
by Marguerite Moreno
About the author
Born Lucie Marie Marguerite Monceau in Paris in 1871, she became known professionally as Marguerite Moreno and was a French stage and film actress. Reliable reference sources agree that she was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1890 to 1903, and that she later remained active in both theater and cinema.
She is often remembered for a strong, distinctive stage presence and for the range of her long career. Film databases and library records connect her with titles such as Les Misérables (1934), Jim la houlette (1935), and Pique Dame (1937), showing how successfully she moved from major theatrical work into 20th-century film.
Moreno married the writer Marcel Schwob in 1900, a detail noted in standard biographical sources, and she died in Touzac, in the Lot region of France, in 1948. Her career left a lasting mark on French performance history, linking the world of late-19th-century theater with the early decades of cinema.