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Gaby Deslys
Gaby Deslys (4 November 1881 – 11 February 1920) was a danseuse, singer, and actress of the early 20th century from Marseilles, France. She selected her name for her stage career. It is an abbreviation of ''Gabrielle of the Lillies''. During the 1910s she was exceedingly popular worldwide, making $4,000 a week in the United States alone. During the 1910s she performed several times on Broadway, at the Winter Garden Theater, and performed in a show with a young Al Jolson. Her dancing was so popular that ''The Gaby Glide'' was named for her.〔(''The Gaby Glide'' ), streetswing.com; accessed 6 May 2014.]〕
Renowned for her beauty she was courted by several wealthy gentlemen including King Manuel II of Portugal. She eventually made the leap to silent films, making her only US film ''Her Triumph'' with Famous Players-Lasky in 1915. She would make a handful of films in France before her death. In 1919 she contracted "Spanish" influenza and underwent several operations trying to cure a throat infection caused by the disease. She died from complications of her infection in Paris in 1920, at the age of 38.
==Early life==
Deslys was born Marie-Elise-Gabrielle Caire. She later had many admirers among royalty, most notably King Manuel II of Portugal, and her origins became the subject of dispute. A private detective claimed her true name was ''Hadiwga Nawrati'', or ''Hedvika Navrátilová'', and that she was a Czech peasant girl, born in the village of Horní Moštěnice, then part of the Kingdom of Hungary. The investigator reported that Deslys had denied her alleged mother's claim to kinship when he brought her to see the dancer, paying her a large amount of money to leave. Deslys replied the story was ridiculous and that she was French, not Czech.〔(Marie Elise Gabrille Caire profile at ), Valentine Theatre website, accessed 15 April 2012.〕
After Deslys' death, at least two dozen persons with the surnames Navratil/Navratilová attempted to claim her fortune. In January 1930 the French foreign minister of the day said he had settled the dispute about Deslys' birthplace and origins. According to him, Deslys had been born at Marseilles on 4 November 1881, daughter of Hippolyte Caire and his wife, Mathilde (née Terras).〔 This study found that the claim of the Navrátil family was incorrect and based on their daughter being a kind of look-alike of Gabrielle Caire, who later adopted the stage name Gaby Deslys.〔
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