Louise Falk
| Louise Falk | |
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| Born: | October 25, 1911 |
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| Died: | August 4, 1999 |
| Nationality: |  American
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Louise Falk (née Kanazireff) was the first wife of Lee Falk from 1935 until 1944 (1945 ?). The surname has been written slightly differently as a result of the transliteration from Bulgarian Cyrillic orthography to the Latin alphabet.
Biography
Louise is the daughter of Vladimir and Lillian (née Rooch) Kanazireff. Vladimir Kanazireff, a native of Macedonia fought in the Balkan wars and World War I, and later served as Bulgarian consul to Leningrad (Petrograd). He met Lillian Rooch of St. Louis, while studying at the Sorbonne in Paris <ref">"Vladimir Kanazireff dies; ex-teacher in High Schools" St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) 31 December 1962, p 9</ref>.
They married in 1910 when her father was the Bulgarian Consul in Paris. Louise was born in St. Louis when her mother visited her family. In 1921 the family moved permanently to St. Louis, and changed the spelling of their surname to Kanasireff.
After graduate Roosevelt High School Louise attended the Washington University. She married Lee Falk in 1935, and after graduating in 1936 they moved to New York City. In NY Louise studying with Frances Robinson Duff, but the newly married couple also traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East the next two years.
In 1939 Louise made her debut in the Farragut Playhouse at Rye Beach (New Hampshire) as part of their resident company. Louise and Lee's daughter Valerie was born May 23, 1940. This year Lee Falk had been involved in the Cambridge Summer Theatre and Louise acted as part of their resident company from 1941. Due to Lee Falk's WWII obligation Louise also took care of Lee's responsibilities at the Cambridge Summer Theatre in the years 1942 to 1944.
Louise changed her acting name to Louise Valery in 1943. Lee Falk and Louise were divorced, and in 1945 Louise remarried with Richard Hart. After the death of her husband in 1951 Louise remarried Peter Cadby.
Behind the scenes
Louise have been used as name for characters in Mandrake strips once:
| Year | Daily/Sunday | Title | Comments |
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| 1956 | Sunday | "The Miss Galaxy Beauty Contest" | as Louisa of Bulgarn |
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References
External links
- Ancestry.com; Passenger Lists, U.S. School Yearbooks, Census and Voter Lists
- Roosevelt High School - Bwana Yearbook (St Louis, MO) - Class of 1932
- Portsmouth Herald: August 2, 1939 p6; August 23, 1939 p6.
- The Harvard Crimson; Playgoer articles
- Billboard magazines 1940-1946
- Richard Hart