Francis Gally, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Francis Gally

French actor

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1863

Place of Birth: Tarbes, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 20-Nov-1918

Profession: actor, composer, playwright

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Francis Gally

  • Francis Gally, real name Francis Jean Mazières, (28 October 1863 – 20 November 1918) was an early 20th-century French actor and playwright. Francis Gally began a career in acting.
  • He then turned to writing.
  • He wrote numerous comédies en vaudeville and operettas.
  • He worked in collaboration with the playwrights Hugues Delorme and Maurice Ordonneau as well as with the composer Henri Goublier. In 1915, the operetta La Cocarde de Mimi-Pinson, a theatre play in honour of the poilus fighting for the French flag, was a triomph at the Théâtre de l'Apollo in Paris.
  • At the beginning of World War I, midinettes nicknamed Mimi Pinson, were making tricolor rosettes for the benefit of solidarity funds (a work led by Gustave Charpentier).
  • Henri Goublier thought that the current events could be a good subject operetta.
  • Goublier obtained the agreement of Maurice Ordonneau, one of the fashionable authors of the time for the libretto, a project which Francis Gally joined.
  • The operetta was presented 25 November 1915.

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