Darling Légitimus

Mathilda Marie Berthilde Paruta (21 November 1907 – 7 Desember 1999), lebih dikenal sebagai Darling Légitimus, adalah seorang aktris Perancis. Pada tahun 1983, ia menerima Piala Volpi untuk Aktris Terbaik atas penampilannya dalam film Sugar Cane Alley. Lahir pada tanggal 21 November 1907 di Le Carbet di Martinik, dia menghabiskan tahun-tahun awalnya di Caracas, Venezuela. Mathilda Paruta tiba di Paris, Prancis, pada usia 16 tahun, ingin menjadi penari. Dia bertemu Victor-Etienne Légitimus, putra wakil pemerintah, Hegesippe Jean Légitimus, dan kemudian menjadi pendamping seumur hidup dan memberinya lima anak. Dikenal lama sebagai Miss Darling, dia kemudian memilih nama Darling Legitimus. Dia tampil sebagai penari di La Revue Nègre (1925) bersama Josephine Baker, dan berpose untuk Picasso serta untuk pematung Paul Belmondo, ayah dari Jean-Paul Belmondo, sang aktor. Selama tahun 1930-an, Darling menulis, mengarang, dan menyanyikan banyak lagu Karibia seperti Biguine dan Mazurka. Ia sering tampil bersama musisi ternama pada masanya, termasuk "Pe En Kin Sosso" dan bandnya. Dia juga tampil dalam drama oleh Jean Genet (Les Nègres) dan Aimé Césaire. Dia disutradarai di layar lebar oleh Raymond Rouleau di Les Sorcieres de Salem (The Crucible) bersama Simone Signoret dan Yves Montand, dan Le Salaire de la Peur (Wages of Fear) oleh Henri Georges Clouzot, dengan Sacha Guitry, Jean-Claude Brialy dan Bernardo Bertolucci. Pada tahun 1983, pada usia 76 tahun, ia memenangkan Piala Volpi untuk interpretasi wanita terbaik "The Mostra of Venise", juga untuk perannya dalam La Rue Cases-Nègres (Sugar Cane Alley), disutradarai oleh rekan senegaranya Euzhan Palcy. Selama hidupnya yang panjang, ia berkenalan dengan sejumlah besar aktor terkenal, di antaranya Arletty, Fernandel, Marlon Brando dan Pierre Brasseur. Dia juga mengambil bagian dalam berbagai produksi ORTF (Office de Radio-diffusion de la Television Française), di mana sebuah telefilm oleh Jean-Christophe Averty, Les verts Paturages (The Green Pastures, ditulis oleh Marc Connelly), diproduksi. Dia meninggal pada tanggal 7 Desember 1999 di Kremlin-Bicetre di Val de Marne dekat Paris, di Perancis, tanpa peran akting lagi setelahnya Sugar Cane Alley meskipun ada harapan untuk nominasi dan penghargaannya. Penulis, Calixthe Beyala dan aktor Karibia Luc Saint-Eloy, perwakilan dari kolektif "Liberté" naik ke panggung pada upacara César pada tahun 2000, untuk mengklaim salah satu kehadiran terbesar di layar televisi Prancis dan memberikan penghormatan publik kepadanya, karena penyelenggara "lupa" menyebut Darling sebagai salah satu kerugian besar tahun sebelumnya. Sumber: Artikel "Darling Légitimus" dari Wikipedia dalam bahasa Inggris, berlisensi CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Mathilda Marie Berthilde Paruta (21 November 1907 – 7 December 1999), better known as Darling Légitimus, was a French actress. In 1983, she received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her performance in the film Sugar Cane Alley. Born on 21 November 1907 at Le Carbet in Martinique, she spent her early years in Caracas, Venezuela. Mathilda Paruta arrived in Paris, France, at age of 16, wanting to become a dancer. She met Victor-Etienne Légitimus, son of the government deputy, Hegesippe Jean Légitimus, and went on to become his lifelong companion and bear him five children. Known for a long time as Miss Darling, she later chose to go by the name of Darling Legitimus. She performed as a dancer in La Revue Nègre (1925) with Josephine Baker, and posed for Picasso as well as for sculptor Paul Belmondo, father of Jean-Paul Belmondo, the actor. During the 1930s, Darling wrote, composed and sang numerous Caribbean songs such as Biguine and Mazurka. She often performed alongside known musicians of the era, including "Pe En Kin Sosso" and his band. She also performed in plays by Jean Genet (Les Nègres) and Aimé Césaire. She was directed on the big screen by Raymond Rouleau in Les Sorcieres de Salem (The Crucible) alongside Simone Signoret and Yves Montand, and Le Salaire de la Peur (Wages of Fear) by Henri Georges Clouzot, with Sacha Guitry, Jean-Claude Brialy and Bernardo Bertolucci. In 1983, at the age of 76, she won the Volpi Cup for the best female interpretation of "The Mostra of Venise", also for her role in La Rue Cases-Nègres (Sugar Cane Alley), directed by her compatriot Euzhan Palcy. During her long life, she was acquainted with a great number of famous actors, among them Arletty, Fernandel, Marlon Brando and Pierre Brasseur. She also took part in numerous ORTF (Office de Radio-diffusion de la Television Française) productions, of which a telefilm by Jean-Christophe Averty, Les verts Paturages (The Green Pastures, written by Marc Connelly), was produced. She died on 7 December 1999 at Kremlin-Bicetre in the Val de Marne near Paris, in France, without any more acting roles after Sugar Cane Alley in spite of hopes of her nomination and rewards. The writer, Calixthe Beyala and Caribbean actor Luc Saint-Eloy, representatives of "Liberté" collective came up on stage at the César ceremony in 2000, to claim one of the largest presence on French television screens and to pay her a public tribute, since the organizers had "forgotten" to name Darling as one of the previous year's great losses. Source: Article "Darling Légitimus" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.