Sonne Teal
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| Sonne Teal | |
|---|---|
| Born | Charles Spencer Teal July 13, 1928 Canada |
| 💀Died | March 5, 1966 (aged 37) Mount Fuji, JapanMarch 5, 1966 (aged 37) |
| 💼 Occupation | Actress, dancer, singer, female impersonator |
| Known for | La Poupée |
Sonne Teal (13 July 1928, Canada[1] – 5 March 1966, Mount Fuji, Japan[1]) was an American actress, dancer, singer and female impersonator.
Life[edit]
Sonne was born Charles Spencer Teal in Canada, to parents who moved to Dunseith in North Dakota in 1935.[1] In college Sonne studied with a modern ballet group, and also taught for a year in a North Dakota art institute.[2]
Sonne toured for half a year with a female impersonation revue before coming to New York City and being noticed by Le Carrousel de Paris choreograph, Roger Stefani, at Club 82.[1] Stefani offered a Carrousel contract and within a year Teal was called "The Most Beautiful Legs in Paris",[3] co-starring with Bambi, appearing at Casino de Paris for two years, and touring Europe and North Africa.[2]
Like many other female impersonators of the time Sonne was a trans woman on hormone replacement therapy, whose artistic profession allowed her for self-expression and international travel in a socially acceptable way.[4]
In female impersonation/drag community Sonne was known for sewing and embellishing her dresses, with several of them preserved in an archival collection of University of Minnesota.[1][3]
In 1962 Sonne co-starred with Polish actor Zbigniew Cybulski in surrealist Belgian film La Poupée, with Avery Willard claiming that the dirrector Jacques Baratier initially thought Teal was a cis woman, and not a female impersonator.[1][2]
Sonne and four other female impersonators of Le Carrousel (reported to be named Kismie, Coco, Christine and Cobra[5]) international tour died in a plane crash of BOAC Flight 911 near Mount Fuji.[1]
External links[edit]
- Sonne Teal discography at Discogs
- Sonne Teal on IMDb
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Sonne Teal Collection, Tretter-546. Jean Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies". University of Minnesota Archival Collections Guides. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Female Impersonation by Avery Willard". www.queermusicheritage.com. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "FI Pictorial Tributes Epilogue". Archived from the original on 2008-11-03.
- ↑ Carpenter, Adriana (2023-04-26). "Meet the new curator of the Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies". continuum | University of Minnesota Libraries. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ Vazquez Diaz, Ricardo (March 18, 2022). Una isla sonora: auralidad, literatura y política en la obra escrita y radial de Severo Sarduy (Cuba, 1937-Francia, 1993) (PDF) (PhD) (in español). University of Pittsburgh Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. pp. 114–115. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
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