Among her fellow birthday celebrants, she's a full ten years older than the disgraced legend Phil Spector, and there's also a mixed bag of luminaries such as Denis Quilley, Jared Leto, Chairman Mao, Richard Widmark, Dermot Murnaghan, Kit Harington and Donald Moffat; but forget all of them. Today we light a candle (or several) for one of our revered Patron Saints - Mademoiselle Régine Zylberberg is 90 years old!!
Many and varied are the Grande Dame's achievements: she and her family escaped the Holocaust by remaining in hiding for much of the war, she emerged as a cabaret singer in Paris, and went on to become an international nightclub impresario - her clubs were patronised by royalty and the showbiz elite in an era when the likes of Studio 54 weren't even embryonic - and purportedly invented the discotheque by introducing DJs instead of a jukebox.
I posted an extensive tribute to the lady over at the Dolores Delargo Towers Museum of Camp in 2012, so without further ado... continuons avec le spectacle!
Camp, moi?!
Que vous puissiez être heureuse encore de nombreuses années, Mlle Régine!!
Somehow I've gone through life unaware of Mlle Régine Zylberberg??
ReplyDeleteAre you sure that first photo is of her? Because it looks like Judy Dench after a frenzied attack by Rimmel London and a dressing up box...
Ummm - not looking hard enough? If you click the label at the bottom of the post, you'll find I have featured the great lady several times before...
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PS She always reminds me of "Edizz" from Allo! Allo! rather than Dame Judi!
Funny enough I was playing her CD only yesterday.
ReplyDeleteLove her to bits
We are Reines de la Nuit! Jx
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