Claude Godard

This beautiful girl with auburn hair, long eyelashes and blue-green eyes was born in Casteljaloux, in Gascony. She studied in a Bordeaux high school, graduating at the age of seventeen. She then went to the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, where she was taught music by Marthe Despoulos and drama by Kléber Halpin. She debuted on stage by a mere chance. Indeed Fernand Ledoux was unable to come to Bordeaux to play George Feydeau's "Boubouroche" unless a replacement of his female partner (who had got ill) could be found locally. Spurred by Harpin she embarked on the adventure and came out of it with flying colors. It was not long before she got another part, this time at the Trianon Theater, in André Barde's operetta "Le Comte Obligado". After which she started singing in nightclubs and galas. Encouraged by such a good start, Claude Godard decided to make it in Paris and she immediately enrolled at the famous Cours René Simon. While she was studying she was contacted to represent Gascony at the