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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Suzy_Solidor > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Suzy_Solidor.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzy_Solidor > Source revision: 1301812361 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|French singer and actress (1900–1983)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}} {{Expand French|topic=bio|Suzy Solidor|date=June 2025}} {{More citations needed|date=May 2018}} {{Infobox person | name = Suzy Solidor | image = Suzy Solidor 1-K-12432-2.jpg | alt = | caption = Solidor in 1938 | birth_name = Suzanne Louise Marie Marion | birth_date = {{birth date|1900|12|18|df=yes}} | birth_place = [Brittany](/source/Brittany), France | death_date = {{death date and age|1983|03|30|1900|12|18|df=yes}} | death_place = [Cagnes-sur-Mer](/source/Cagnes-sur-Mer), France | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = Singer, actress }} '''Suzy Solidor''' (18 December 1900 – 30 March 1983) was a French singer and actress, appearing in films such as ''[La Garçonne](/source/La_Gar%C3%A7onne_(1936_film))''. Suzy Solidor was born '''Suzanne Louise Marie Marion''' in 1900 in the Pie district of [Saint-Servan-sur-Mer](/source/Saint-Servan) in Brittany, France. She was the daughter of Louise Marie Adeline Marion, a 28-year-old single mother. In 1907 she became Suzy Rocher when her mother married Eugène Prudent Rocher. She later changed her name to Suzy Solidor when she moved to Paris in the late 1920s, taking the name from a district of [Saint-Servan](/source/Saint-Servan) in which she had lived. Early in 1930, she became a popular singer and opened a chic nightclub called La Vie Parisienne. She was [openly](/source/coming_out) lesbian.{{citation |title=Women Together/Women Apart: Portraits of Lesbian Paris |first=Tirza True |last=Latimer |year=2005 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=0-8135-3595-6 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/womentogetherwom00tirz/page/105 105–135] |url=https://archive.org/details/womentogetherwom00tirz/page/105 }} One of the singer’s most famous publicity stunts was to become known as the “most painted woman in the world”. She posed for some of the most celebrated artists of the day including [Pablo Picasso](/source/Pablo_Picasso), [Georges Braque](/source/Georges_Braque), [Raoul Dufy](/source/Raoul_Dufy), [Tamara de Lempicka](/source/Tamara_de_Lempicka), [Marie Laurencin](/source/Marie_Laurencin), [Francis Picabia](/source/Francis_Picabia) and [Kees van Dongen](/source/Kees_van_Dongen). Her stipulation for sitting was that she would be given the paintings to hang in her club, and, by this time, she had accumulated thirty-three portraits of herself. La Vie Parisienne became one of the trendiest night spots in Paris. Solidor's most famous portrait was painted by [Tamara de Lempicka](/source/Tamara_de_Lempicka). Solidor met Tamara de Lempicka sometime in the early 1930s, and Suzy asked the artist to paint her. Tamara agreed, but only if she could paint Solidor in the nude. Solidor agreed, and the painting was finished in 1933. During the occupation, her nightclub was popular with German officers; in 1941 she recorded a version of the song "[Lili Marleen](/source/Lili_Marleen)" with French words by Henri Lemarchand.Pathé: [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Henri+Lemarchand?anv=H.+Lemarchand Discography] After the war she was convicted by the [Épuration légale](/source/%C3%89puration_l%C3%A9gale) as a collaborator and punished with five years without public activities. She died on 30 March 1983 in [Cagnes-sur-Mer](/source/Cagnes-sur-Mer) and is buried in the town. Ten years before, in 1973, she gave 40 of her portraits to the village. They are permanently exhibited at the [Château-Musée Grimaldi](/source/Ch%C3%A2teau-Mus%C3%A9e_Grimaldi) Museum. She was the subject of the song "Sad Songs" by the English group [The Christians](/source/The_Christians_(band)) in their eponymous first album. == References == {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090826042000/http://www.chanson.udenap.org/fiches_bio/solidor_suzy.htm Biographical profile of Suzy Solidor] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110719072220/http://www.dfg.passau.de/Bilder/Cagnes/solidor.jpg Gallery of Suzy Solidor portraits] * [http://terresdefemmes.blogs.com/mon_weblog/2005/03/31_mars_1983mor.html Obituary: "Mort de la chanteuse Suzy Solidor", 1983] {{in lang|fr}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Solidor, Suzy}} Category:1900 births Category:1983 deaths Category:People from Saint-Malo Category:Actresses from Paris Category:Musicians from Paris Category:French film actresses Category:Lesbian singers Category:Lesbian businesswomen Category:French LGBTQ singers Category:French LGBTQ businesspeople Category:French lesbian actresses Category:French lesbian musicians Category:Nightclub owners Category:20th-century French actresses Category:20th-century French women singers Category:20th-century French businesswomen Category:20th-century French businesspeople Category:20th-century French LGBTQ people --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Suzy Solidor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzy_Solidor) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzy_Solidor?action=history)). 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