Performer of the classic "Mon légionnaire", Marie Dubas was one of France's
greatest music-hall stars. Born in Paris into a family of Polish Jewish origin
on September 3, 1894, she made her stage debut at the age of fourteen, in 1908,
and set her sights on opera and operetta. After dance lessons and studies in
singing and acting at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique, Marie Dubas appeared
alongside Yvonne Printemps in the operetta L'Amour masqué by Sacha Guitry and
André Messager (1923), and the following year in La Danse des libellules after
Franz Lehár at the Bataclan. However, ...