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Born Marie-Rose Angelina Yvonne Lussier in Montreal, Quebec, as a young typist, filled with the desire to become an actress, she went to New York City.

There, she found work in The Greenwich Village Follies after an audition in which she sang the song " Yes, We Have No Bananas ' in French.

In a burst of creativity, she told the play's director she was from Paris, France where she had worked in the Folies Bergères.

The show's impressed director hired her, billing her as " Mademoiselle Fifi ".