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2 unusual facts about Valerie Bergere


Valerie Bergere

In 1892 she made her English language debut with a stock company in San Francisco, California as Dora Vane, in Harbor Lights, a melodrama by George Robert Sims and Henry Alfred Pettitt.

At New York’s Grand Opera House on November 26, 1900, Bergere played Cora, the hosiery model, in David Belasco’s comedy, Naughty Anthony, and the tragic Cho Cho San in the show’s curtain raiser, Madame Butterfly; roles originally played earlier in the year in New York and London by Blanche Bates.



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