Gaby Sings!, Gaby Dances!, Gaby Fascinates
was the usual moniker for Gaby. She was a very popular actress
and dancer during her time. Became a huge success in a Parisian
revue when she debuted in 1902 in Paris. Ned
Wayburn created the popular Gaby
Glide dance for her in the 1911 show Vera Violetta. Deslys
is also credited for introducing the first "Striptease"
number in a Broadway Musical. The public was very infatuated
with Gaby whose costume gowns attained almost as much attention
as herself. It is said she would make sometimes as much as ten
costume changes a night and never wore the same costume in the
same city/town. Gaby was celebrated as a dancer but di not consider
herslef one.
She was once the sweetheart of the King Manual
of Portugal which may have caused him the throne. Marie also
worked as a spy for the French goverment during W.W.I. She died
in Paris, France due to a throat infection. Tamara
Toumanova played Gaby in the 1954 FIlm" Deep in my
Heart". Gaby's life was a very successful one, due to her
dance ability and beautiful looks, was on the cover of 'Pictures
and the Picturegoer' magazine in 1915, Erté did a serigraph
painting of her and even dated Manuel II, the King of Portugal.
Gaby past away in Paris after a bad case
of pneumonia / throat infection.
