Description: Gismonda is a Greek-set melodrama in four acts by Victorien Sardou that premiered in 1894 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance. In 1918, the play was adapted for the now lost film Love's Conquest. In 1918/1919, it was adapted into the opera Gismonda by Henry Février. The original production starred Sarah Bernhardt as Gismonda and Lucien Guitry as Almerio. The show would go to Broadway with Fanny Davenport in the lead at the Fifth Avenue Theatre on December 11, 1894, and end in February 1895. This engagement was Post Broadway Fanny Lily Gipsey Davenport (April 10, 1850 – September 26, 1898) was an English-American stage actress The eldest child of Edward Loomis Davenport and Fanny Elizabeth (Vining) Gill Davenport, Fanny Lily Gypsey Davenport was born on April 10, 1850 in London. Most of her siblings were actors, including Harry Davenport. She was brought to the United States in 1854[3] and educated in the Boston public schools. At age 7, she appeared at Boston's Howard Athenæum as Metamora's child,[citation needed] but her real debut occurred in February 1862 when she portrayed King Charles in Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady at Niblo's Garden. From 1869 to 1877, she performed in Augustin Daly's company; and afterwards, with a company of her own, acted with particular success in Sardou's Fédora (1883) her leading man being Robert B. Mantell, Cleopatra (1890), and similar plays. She took over emotional Sardou roles that had been originated in Europe by Sarah Bernhardt. Her last appearance was at the Grand Opera House in Chicago[4] on March 25, 1898, shortly before her death From Wikipedia
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