Suzanne Caubet

Suzanne Caubet (September 27, 1898 – June 1980), also known as Suzanne Caubaye, was a French actress, singer, and writer.

Suzanne Caubet
Suzanne Caubet, from a 1919 publication.
Suzanne Caubet, from a 1919 publication.
BornSeptember 27, 1898
Lévignac
Died1980
Englewood, New Jersey
NationalityFrench
Other namesSuzanne Caubaye, Suzanne Caubet Wilbur (after marriage), S. C. Wilbur, Jeanne Caubannes (pen name)
Occupation(s)actress, singer, writer
Years active1917-1955
Known forstage career; protégée of Sarah Bernhardt
Suzanne Caubet, from a 1920 publication.

Early life

Suzanne Caubet was born in Lévignac to French parents.[1] She was raised in Paris, and knew her godmother[2] Sarah Bernhardt through her father Prospere Caubet and uncle, Georges Deneubourg, both actors.[3] She was a child actor and traveled with Bernhardt's company to the United States, where Caubet stayed after 1919.[4][5]

Career

Caubet was based in New York as an actress.[6] "Miss Caudet has the distinct advantage of being a striking brunette," the New York Times observed of her appearance in 1919.[7] She appeared on Broadway in Du Theatre au Champ D'Honneur (1917), Easy Terms (1925), The Squall (1926-1927),[8] Ringside (1928), Seven (1929-1930), The Plutocrat (1930), Dancing Partner (1930), The Great Barrington (1931), Angeline Moves In (1932), Singapore (1932), The Monster (1933), Another Love (1934), Broadway Interlude (1934), Symphony (1935), American Holiday (1936), Claudia (1942), It's a Gift (1945), and Mid-Summer (1953).[9]

In 1955 she appeared in "The File Clerk", an episode of the television anthology series I Spy.

Writing

Caubet wrote a play with Anne Partridge, Our Sarah (1945), about Sarah Bernhardt,[10] and comedies Riri (1929, with Daniel Auschitzky),[11] and Just You, Madame (1932).[12] She also adapted Daniel Auschitzky's Hide and Seek (1929).[13] Under the pseudonym "Jeanne Caubannes" she wrote Ranah (1928) with Wood Soanes.[14]

Other activities

In 1938 Caubet was teaching in the drama department at Marymount College and directing a Christmas pageant at the school.[15] In 1942, she served as a French language specialist for the wartime Postal Censorship Office, while also appearing in a Broadway show.[16]

Personal life

Suzanne Caubet married actor and playwright Crane Wilbur in 1922. They divorced in 1928.[17] She died in 1980, aged 81 years, at the Actors' Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey. Her papers are archived in the New York Public Library's Billy Rose Theatre Division.[18]

References
  1. Wood Soanes, "Curtain Calls" Oakland Tribune (May 17, 1926): 40. via Newspapers.com
  2. "S. R. O." The Independent (February 7, 1920): 215.
  3. "Bernhardt's Niece Comes as Star at Fulton" Oakland Tribune (June 1, 1922): 11. via Newspapers.com
  4. "Suzanne Caubet" Theatre Magazine (February 1919): 97.
  5. Ruth Moore, "Suzanne Caubaye, Star in 'Red Mill', Inspired in Art by her Godmother, Sarah Bernhardt" The St. Louis Star and Times (August 14, 1936): 8. via Newspapers.com
  6. "New French Players in New York" La France (November 1919): 71.
  7. "Suzanne Caubet Appears" New York Times (June 4, 1919): 18.
  8. Gerald Bordman, American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama 1914-1930 (Oxford University Press 1995): 302-303. ISBN 9780195090789
  9. Gerald Bordman, American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1930-1969 (Oxford University Press 1996): 54, 66, 97, 98. ISBN 9780195090796
  10. Catalog of Copyright Entries (Copyright Office 1945): 2331.
  11. Catalog of Copyright Entries (Copyright Office 1930): 60.
  12. Catalog of Copyright Entries (Copyright Office 1932): 5628.
  13. Catalog of Copyright Entries (Copyright Office 1930): 299.
  14. Catalog of Copyright Entries (Copyright Office 1930): 14.
  15. "To Give Nativity Pageant" New York Times (December 4, 1938): D8. via ProQuest
  16. "Suzanne Caubaye of 'Claudia' May be Watching You" The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (October 11, 1942): 42. via Newspapers.com
  17. "Divorces Crane Wilbur" New York Times (January 7, 1928): 19. via ProQuest
  18. Suzanne Caubaye Papers, 1919-1979, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library.
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