{{Short description|French music-hall singer, diseuse and comedian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} [[File:Père-Lachaise - Division 36 - Dubas-Galtier 01.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Grave of Marie Dubas and Sylvie Galtier in [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]]]]
'''Marie Dubas''' (3 September 1894 – 21 February 1972) was a French Jewish music-hall singer, [[diseuse]]<ref>A French Song Companion by Graham Johnson, Richard Stokes - 2000 p. 5</ref> and comedian.
==Biography == Born in Paris, France, to Polish Jewish immigrants, Marie Dubas began her career as a stage actress but became famous as a singer. Using the great [[Yvette Guilbert]] as her model, Dubas started singing in the small cabarets of [[Montmartre]] mixing comedy into her routine. She earned a following that led to offers to perform in Parisian operettas and musicals and during the 1920s and 1930s, starred at such places as the [[Casino de Paris]] and [[Bobino]], the great [[music hall]] in [[Montparnasse]]. Her most famous song, ''[[Mon légionnaire]]'', was written by [[Raymond Asso]] and recorded in 1936. Her popularity became such that in 1939 she toured the United States.
The occupation of France by the Germans during World War II proved a difficult time for the Jewish Marie Dubas. Although married to a French [[gentile]] who served in the Air Force, she was nevertheless banned by the [[Vichy France|Vichy]] government and placed under house arrest by the [[Gestapo]] who raided her Paris apartment. Forced to flee the country, Dubas took refuge in [[Lausanne, Switzerland]] where she remained until the end of the war. On her return to France, she learned her sister had been executed and her nephew had been shipped to a [[concentration camp]], never to be heard from again.
The inspiration for [[Édith Piaf]], Marie Dubas returned to performing and in 1954 was chosen as a headliner for the reopening of the [[Paris Olympia]]. A stage production about her life, ''Dubas de haut, en bas'', was created by [[Opéra Éclaté]].
==Death == Marie Dubas retired in 1958. She died in Paris in 1972 and is interred there in the [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]]. She is largely forgotten today.<ref>''Piano ma non-solo'', [[Jean-Pierre Thiollet]], Anagramme Ed., 2012, p. 27.</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0239188}} * {{in lang|ru}} [http://chanson-francaise.narod.ru/phonoteka.htm Extraits audio]
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