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Rita Lafontaine fonds [multiple media (some electronic)]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1927-2014.

Reference:

R13871-0-9-E

Type of material:

Photographs, Textual material, Sound recordings, Art, Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5074144

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Rita Lafontaine fonds
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Fonds includes:

10 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1927-2014.

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Place of creation:

Québec (Province)

Extent:

4.419 m of textual records.
2347 photographs : b&w.
ca. 4.56 GB of photographs (ca. 2790 files) : b&w and col.
25 prints : posters.
52 audio disks (ca. 9 hrs., 45 min. 56 s.)
89 drawings.
120 videocassettes (ca. 131 hrs., 52 min.) : VHS, Betacam, Beta SP.
22 optical disks (ca. 17 hrs., 25 min., 45 s.) : CD, DVD
1 trophy.
4 medals (including one container).
2 pins.
3 plaques.
1 audio cassette (30 min.).
ca. 333 MB of video recordings (ca. 30 min.).
266.7 MB of textual records (41 files).

Language of material:

French

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The Rita Lafontaine fonds contains records covering the life and career of actor, director, drama teacher and administrator Rita Lafontaine. These records document her contributions to the advancement of the performing arts and provide insight into her career in television and film. The holdings include annotated texts from many plays, screenplays, and episodes or scenes from television series, dramas and variety shows in which Rita Lafontaine appeared. The fonds also includes personal and professional correspondence, files with reviews and press clippings, professional photographs from theatrical productions, and personal photographs. There are also documents related to the Centre des Arts Rita Lafontaine, and others that highlight her participation in a number of charitable works.

The fonds documents Rita Lafontaine's acting career. It shows her participation in the creation of almost all of Michel Tremblay's plays, and her work with director André Brassard. It contains a large number of photographs showing Rita Lafontaine on stage with various Quebec theatrical performers, including Denise Pelletier, Luce Guilbeault, Hélène Loiselle, Lionel Villeneuve, Monique Mercure, Sophie Clément, Denise Morelle, Louise Marleau, Jean-Louis Millette, Normand Chouinard, Gisèle Schmidt, Amulette Garneau, Jean Gascon, Huguette Oligny, Michelle Rossignol, Jean-Louis Roux, Gilles Renaud, Benoît Girard and Raymond Legault.

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Lafontaine, Rita, 1939-2016

Biography/Administrative history:

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Lafontaine, Rita, 1939-2016 : Born in Trois Rivières, Rita Lafontaine was one of the most important Francophone actors of her generation in Canada. Michel Tremblay's favourite performer, she had a remarkable career thanks to her versatility and the scope of her repertoire in theatre, film and television. She made her mark in theatre by playing, or rather creating, the lead roles in Tremblay's major works, from "Les Belles-Soeurs" (1968) to "Albertine en cinq temps" (1985), including "À toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou" (1971). She performed in a large number of plays, by Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Réjean Ducharme, Gratien Gélinas, Marie Laberge, Anton Chekhov, Marivaux, Jean Racine (notably in "Andromaque"), Georges Feydeau and Françoise Loranger. She worked with recognized stage directors, André Brassard in particular. The careers of Michel Tremblay, André Brassard and Rita Lafontaine are closely connected. She was a director in her own right, notably at the Centre des Arts Rita Lafontaine in Saint-Joseph-de-Ham-Sud in Quebec, which she founded in 2004 and managed until 2008.

Rita Lafontaine appeared in over 30 films, starting in 1972. She acted in "Françoise Durocher, waitress "(1972), "Il était une fois dans l'Est" (1974) and "Le soleil se lève en retard" (1976) by André Brassard (screenplays by Michel Tremblay). For her leading role in "L'Homme de rêve" (1991) by Robert Ménard, she won the Gémeaux Award for best female actor and the Guy L'Écuyer Award (Jutra Awards). She had parts in 24 television series broadcast by CBC, Radio-Canada, Télé-Métropole and TVA, including "Le Gutenberg" (1976-1979) by Pierre Duceppe, "Les Moineau et les Pinson" (1982-1985) by Georges Dor, "Cormoran" (1988-1993) by Pierre Gauvreau, "Le Retour" (1996-2001) by Anne Boyer and Michel D'Astous, and Le Monde de Charlotte (2001-2004) by Richard Blaimert. She won five Métrostar awards and a Gémeaux Award for best actress in a television series for her role in "Le Retour".

Rita Lafontaine received numerous awards and honours throughout her career, including the Governor General's Performing Arts Award in 2010, the Christal Films tribute award presented by the Femmes du cinéma, de la télévision et des nouveaux médias in 2007, the MétroStar Award in 1999 and 2000, and Gémeaux Awards in 1990, 1992, 1999 and 2000. The Théâtre Espace Go organized a tribute evening for her in 2009, and the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières awarded her an honorary doctorate that same year. Rita Lafontaine was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2005 and Officer of l'Ordre national du Québec in 2011.

Rita Lafontaine died in Montréal in April 2016.

Finding aid:

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Sound and audio-visual material (Electronic) Please refer to the Film, Video and Sound (MISACS) database for item level descriptions. (90: Open)

Textual records, graphic material (Electronic) The finding aid describes volumes 1 to 34, 36 to 65 at the file level MSS2521 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002504.pdf

Textual records, graphic material, moving images (Electronic) This finding aid describes the electronic material. MSS2521 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/p000003489.pdf

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General note:

The fonds was acquired directly from Rita Lafontaine in 2010 and through her Estate in 2017.

Arrangement note:

Volume R13871 35 (containing digital records) has been deactivated. This volume no longer exists.

Subject heading:

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Theatre - Canada

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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2010-00675-5
2017-00355-7

Other accession no.:

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2012-0061 VSA
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000001298.pdf

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

Audio-visual item no. assigned by LAC [R13871] 15280AV--15281AV

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic(photo): electronic

[Consultation90 Open]

Moving images (video)

[Consultation90 Open]

Audio-visual item no. assigned by LAC [R13871]

[Consultation 90 Open]

15253AV--15279AV;

[Consultation 90 Open]

15282AV;

[Consultation 90 Open]

15515AV--15521AV;

[Consultation 90 Open]

15530AV--15537AV;

[Consultation 90 Open]

15651AV;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Sound recordings : electronic

[Consultation90 Open]

Moving images (video): electronic

[Consultation90 Open]

Textual records: electronic

[Consultation90 Open]

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