Suzanne Caubet

Suzanne Caubet (September 27, 1898 – June 1980) was a French actress, singer, and writer who built a career on the Broadway stage spanning from 1917 to the early 1950s. Born in Lévignac, France, she was raised in Paris, where her father Prospere Caubet and her uncle Georges Deneubourg were both actors. Through her father's connections, Caubet knew Sarah Bernhardt as her godmother, and she began performing as a child, traveling with Bernhardt's company to the United States. After 1919 she remained in the country and established herself in New York as a working stage actress.

Caubet's Broadway career was extensive. Her earliest recorded credit, Du Theatre au Champ D'Honneur, dates to 1917, and she continued appearing on Broadway across subsequent decades. Her credits include Easy Terms (1925), The Squall (1926–1927), Ringside (1928), Seven (1929–1930), The Plutocrat (1930), Dancing Partner (1930), The Great Barrington (1931), Angeline Moves In (1932), Singapore (1932), The Monster (1933), Another Love (1934), Broadway Interlude (1934), Symphony (1935), American Holiday (1936), Claudia (1942), It's a Gift (1945), and Mid-Summer (1953). In 1955 she appeared in a television role, playing in "The File Clerk," an episode of the anthology series I Spy.

Beyond performing, Caubet worked as a playwright and adapter. She co-wrote the comedy Riri (1929) with Daniel Auschitzky and adapted Auschitzky's Hide and Seek that same year. Under the pseudonym Jeanne Caubannes, she co-wrote Ranah (1928) with Wood Soanes. She also co-authored Just You, Madame (1932) and, with Anne Partridge, wrote Our Sarah (1945), a play about her godmother Sarah Bernhardt. In 1938 Caubet was teaching in the drama department at Marymount College and directing a Christmas pageant at the school. During 1942, while simultaneously appearing on Broadway, she served as a French language specialist for the wartime Postal Censorship Office.

In 1922 Caubet married actor and playwright Crane Wilbur; the couple divorced in 1928. She died in June 1980 at the age of 81 at the Actors' Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey. Her papers are held in the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library.