Elvira Popescu

Biography

Elvira Popescu was a Romanian-French stage and film actress and theatre director who starred in French comedy films during the 1930s and 1940s. She began her career at the National Theatre Bucharest at age 16, and later became artistic director of the Excelsior Theatre in 1919. In Paris, she collaborated with Louis Verneuil on films such as La Présidente and Paradis perdu, and went on to direct Théâtre de Paris from 1956-1965.