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From the Archives: The Disappearance of Nicole Riche
Status: Hoax from the past
This has nothing to do with Paris Hilton's friend Nicole Richie. Though it would be a benefit to mankind if the two of them would vanish into thin air. The title refers to the French actress Nicole Riche who in 1950 was starring in the stage production of No Orchids for Miss Blandish at the Grand Guignol theater in Paris. The play is about a woman who gets kidnapped by a gangster. Nicole Riche played the title character. She probably wasn't chosen for the part because of her great acting ability. More important was looking good in the flimsy white negligee she wore most of the time onstage.On the evening of March 29, 1950, in between the second and third acts of the show, Riche suddenly disappeared. Kidnapping was suspected. Three days later she showed up -- strolling into a Paris police station at 3 a.m. (still in her white negligee), claiming she had been abducted by "Puritans" who kept her imprisoned in a room while lecturing her about her immoral lifestyle. According to her, the Puritans had finally dumped her in a forest, but luckily some kindly gypsies happened by who helped her get back to the city.
None of this was true. It turned out to have been a publicity stunt cooked up by the Grand Guignol's manager. The police had suspected as much from the start. Still, the stunt worked. The "kidnapping" made headlines throughout the world. More details, and a few grainy photos of Riche, in the hoax archive.
I have no idea what became of Riche. If you do a google search for her name you get a message saying "Did you mean: "nicole richie" and lots of links to people who have misspelled Richie's last name.
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Categories: Entertainment, Law/Police/Crime Posted by Alex on Mon Apr 07, 2008 |
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There's a stub on her in the french Wikipedia:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Riche
It sais she died in 1990 and was best known as a dubbing artist, for instance for Shirley McLaine.
Posted by nasobem on Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 12:02 PM
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Riche
It sais she died in 1990 and was best known as a dubbing artist, for instance for Shirley McLaine.
IMDB has a short blurb on her alos.
Posted by Maegan in Tampa, FL - USA on Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 12:43 PM
hmmm... I believe "Riche" translates into English as: "rich". "Nicol(e)" was the name of Napoleon's horse, hence the entomological genesis of the word "pumpernickel", which was dark bread looked down upon as fit only to feed Nicol(e), birthing the word "pan por Nicol", or "pumpernickel". It doesn't say in your thread lead-in as to whether Nicole Riche resembled a horse or was wealthy, but one might assume that she did not resemble a horse, but I doubt she did if she was looked upon favorably whilst wearing a nightie onstage, nor would she be forced to engage in publicity stunts to further career if she was rich. So, poor, unhorse like in appearance, and bound by a stage name that suggests she was a rich horse, she did what any of us would do in a similar situation: Blame it on The Gypsies. Real good. Spit at the fat kid. Har de har
Posted by Hairy Houdini on Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 07:59 PM
"Meaty", eh?
Posted by outeast on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 07:14 AM
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