Anne Sicco will be in attendance representing the Marceau family. Born Marcel Mangel in Strasbourg, France, on March 23, 1923, Marceau referred to mime as the "art of silence," an art that he ...

Marceau’s talent with body language and mime movement may have saved his life while fighting with the French resistance. He claimed that he was caught entirely by surprise when he accidentally ran i ...

After the war, Mangel changed his name to Marcel Marceau—after a general in Napolean’s army who hailed from the Alsace region—and became a world-renowned mime artist. Marceau died in Paris ...