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Fifi D'Orsay (born April 16, 1904; died December
2, 1983) was an actress.  Born Marie-Rose Angelina
Yvonne Lussier in Montreal, Quebec, as a young
girl, filled with the desire to become an actress,
she went to New York City. There, she found work
in The Greenwich Village Follies after an audition
in which she sang the song "Yes! We Have No
Bananas" in French. In a burst of creativity, she
told the play's director she was from Paris,
France where she had worked in the Follies
Bèrgere. The show's impressed director hired her,
billing her as "Mademoiselle Fifi".

While working in the show, she became involved
with Ed Gallagher, a veteran actor who joined her
in putting together a vaudeville act. After
working with Gallagher and others in music halls
for a few years, she headed west to Hollywood,
California. There, she added the Paris name
"D'Orsay" to the "Fifi" and began a career in
movies, often cast as the naughty French girl from
"Gay Paris."

While never a superstar, she worked hard at her
craft headlining with the likes of Bing Crosby,
and Buster Crabbe. For years, she kept alternating
her appearances in film with continued
performances in vaudeville and when age put an end
to the glamour roles, she readily took jobs in
television. At the age of sixty-seven, she
appeared back on stage in the Tony Award winning
Broadway musical, Follies. 

Fifi D'Orsay passed away from cancer at the age of
79 in Woodland Hills, California and was interred
in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in 
Glendale, California.

==Partial filmography==

*Assignment to Kill  - (1968) 
*The Art of Love - (1965) 
*What a Way to Go!  -  (1964)  
*Wild And Wonderful  - (1964) 
*The Gangster - (1947)
*Dixie Jamboree  - (1945)
*Delinquent Daughters  - (1944)
*Nabonga  -  (1944) 
*Submarine Base  -  (1943) 
*Three Legionnaires   - (1937)
*Wonder Bar  -  (1934) 
*The Life of Jimmy Dolan  -  (1933)  
*They Just Had to Get Married  - (1933) 
*Going Hollywood  -  (1933) 
*The Girl From Calgary -  (1932) 
*Mr. Lemon of Orange  - (1931)  
*Young as You Feel - (1931)
*The Stolen Jools  - (1931)
*Women of All Nations  -  (1931)  
*On the Level - (1930)  
*Those Three French Girls  - (1930)  
*Hot for Paris - (1930)
*Women Everywhere  -  (1930)  
*They Had to See Paris - (1929)

See also: Canadian pioneers in early
Hollywood|Other Canadian pioneers in early
Hollywood

==External links==

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