RARE! "Czech Actress" Fanny Janauschek Hand Signed 2X3.25 Card Todd Mueller COA

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Up for auction a RARE! “Czech Actress” Fanny Janauschek Hand Signed 2X3.25 Card.
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Francesca Janauschek
(July
20, 1829 – November 28, 1904) aka
Madame Fanny Janauschek
was
a Czech born stage actress.
Fanny Janauschek was born on July 20, 1829
in
Prague
. Her mother worked as a theatre laundress and her father
as a tailor.
She
came to America in 1867 and first performed at the
Academy of Music
,
New York City
, on October 9, 1867 managed by
Max Maretzek
. She spoke no English, only German and often
worked with all English speaking casts.
In three years time since arriving
in the US she mastered enough English dialect to communicate with American
audiences and decided to make America her home. Some of her performances,
especially
Medea
, were compared to the revered Italian
tragedienne
Adelaide Ristori
. She
became famous acting in great Shakespearean parts and other famous parts. She
was particularly noted for playing
Meg Merrilies
, a role
Charlotte Cushman
made famous. In 1873, Janauschek
starred in an adaptation of
Charles Dickens
‘s
Bleak House
, in which she played both the heroine Lady
Dedlock and her murderous French maid Hortense, demonstrating Janauschek’s
range as an actress.
[7]
She played this double role in
touring companies for decades. In 1900 Madame Janauschek had a stroke and was
paralyzed. She died in 1904 partially blind and bankrupt. Friends and actors
gathered a collection to have her buried properly in
Evergreen Cemetery
,
Brooklyn New York.
[8]
[9]
Madame Janauschek had no known
offspring.