Marjane, Léo

LC control no.	n 96029573
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Marjane, Léo *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Gérard, Thérèse, 1912-2016 Gendebien, Thérèse Marie Léonie Gendebien, Thérèse Maria Léonie Marjane
Birth date	1912-08-26
Death date	2016-12-18
Place of birth	Boulogne-sur-Mer (France)
Place of death	Barbizon (France)
Profession or occupation	Singers
Found in	Léo Marjane 1937-1942, p1993: label (Léo Marjane) notes (b. Thérèse Gérard in Boulogne sur Mer) Le dictionnaire de la chanson française, 1988: p. 239-240 (Léo Marjane; Thérèse Gérard; b. 1918, Boulogne-sur-Mer; interprète) French Wikipedia, 18 February 2014 (Léo Marjane; Thérèse Marie Léonie Gendebien; Marjane; born 27 August 1912 at Boulogne-sur-Mer [citing her birthdate in her contracts with Gramophone]; French chanteuse) New York times WWW site, viewed Dec. 27, 2016 (in obituary published Dec. 26: Léo Marjane; b. Thérèse Maria Léonie Gendebien, Aug. 26, 1912, Boulogne-sur-Mer; d. Sunday [Dec. 25, 2016], Barbizon, aged 104; star of the French music hall in the 1930s and '40s, whose heart-wrenching ballad Alone tonight became a signature song of occupied France; after winning the Artistica singing contest in Marseille at 15, she began singing comic songs as part of a duo, under the name Rita Karoly [no publications in LC database]; before long she was appearing on her own at Parisian music halls; her stage surname combined "Marie" and "Jeanne"; at the insistence of a record producer, she took Léo, a name she hated, from her middle name, Léonie) French Wikipedia, viewed Dec. 27, 2016 (under Léo Marjane: Thérèse Gendebien, called Léo Marjane, then Marjane; b. Aug. 26, 1912, Boulogne-sur-Mer; d. Dec. 18, 2016, Barbizon; French singer [cites obituary published Dec. 19])
Associated language	fre