Lucia Joyce on film

"Lucia interrupted her training with Jean Borlin to dance in various shows with Les Six de rythme et couleur, and in 1927 they all interrupted their performance schedules to participate in the filming of a new movie by Jean Renoir. [30min] La Petite marchande d'allumettes was based on Hans Christian Andersen's story. In the match girl's delirium, at the point of death, she imagines a world of satisfied desire, which in the movie is represented by the animation of a toystore window. Hutton and Vanel's troupe were to create the dance of the toy soldiers, and Lucia and Kitten Neel were to have a small duet. “Lucia and Kitten became charming automatons and comics,” Hélène Vanel said. She used one particular moment during the rehearsal schedule when the girls came into the music hall at the Empire Theatre to focus her insight into the meaning of dance to Lucia. The hall where they practiced was extraordinarily large, so that it was often hard to restrain the girls' “illimitable desire to leap and to run." [cite]

this was 2 years before her probable schizophrenia started [wiki]




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