---
name: "Marguerite Sylva"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marguerita-sylva"
fi1m_id: "marguerita-sylva"
imdb_id: "nm0843158"
tmdb_id: 86831
wikidata_id: "Q6760818"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "10 July 1875"
died: "21 February 1957"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T03:34:04.182753+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Marguerite Sylva

## Identity

Marguerite Sylva

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marguerita-sylva
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marguerita-sylva
- **IMDb ID:** nm0843158
- **TMDB ID:** 86831
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6760818
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Sylva, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6760818, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0843158/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/86831

Actor. Born 10 July 1875 in Brussels, Belgium. Died 21 February 1957.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 10 July 1875, Brussels, Belgium
- **Died:** 21 February 1957
- **Also known as:** Marguerita Sylva, Marguerite Alice Hélène Smith
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 other
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Sylva, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6760818, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0843158/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/86831

## Biography

Marguerite Sylva, also credited as Marguerita Sylva, was a Belgian-born mezzo-soprano and actress. Born Marguerite Alice Hélène Smith in Brussels, she achieved prominence on the opera stage, particularly in the title role of Bizet's Carmen, which she performed hundreds of times. She also appeared in operetta and musical theatre.

Sylva made her Broadway debut in the early twentieth century and continued stage work into the 1930s, with credits including Golden Dawn (1927) and Three Waltzes (1937). In later years she took small character roles in Hollywood films, among them Marta in The Leopard Man (1943), Mrs Bella Romari in The Seventh Victim (1943), and uncredited parts in To Have and Have Not (1945) and The Gay Senorita (1945). She died in Glendale, California, in 1957.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, ibdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Seventh Victim* (1943), Fi1m 62, as Bella Romari — [page](https://film.one/film/the-seventh-victim.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *To Have and Have Not* (1945), Fi1m 84, as Cashier (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/to-have-and-have-not.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Gay Senorita* (1945), as Maria Sandoval
- *To Have and Have Not* (1945), as Cashier (uncredited) — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/to-have-and-have-not.md)
- *The Conspirators* (1944), as Older Woman (uncredited)
- *The Seventh Victim* (1943), as Bella Romari — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/the-seventh-victim.md)
- *The Leopard Man* (1943), as Marta (uncredited)
- *They Dare Not Love* (1941), as Countess Marlik
- *The Honey Bee* (1920), as Hilda Wilson

## Gallery

- ![Marguereta Sylva, stage singer Subjects: singers (1902)](https://film.one/media/person/3859423/gallery-2ea2d49c90ff.jpg) Marguereta Sylva, stage singer Subjects: singers (1902) — C. M. Hayes and Company, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Marguereta_Sylva%2C_stage_singer_%28SAYRE_9451%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Title: Sylva Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. (1900)](https://film.one/media/person/3859423/gallery-cfe7a25e8d4b.jpg) Title: Sylva Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. (1900) — Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Sylva_LCCN2014712073.jpg/1280px-Sylva_LCCN2014712073.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Marguereta Sylva, stage singer Subjects: singers (1902)](https://film.one/media/person/3859423/gallery-6fa4775c52b3.jpg) Marguereta Sylva, stage singer Subjects: singers (1902) — C. M. Hayes and Company, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Marguereta_Sylva%2C_stage_singer_%28SAYRE_9752%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Title: Marguerite Sylva -- (Mrs. B.L. Smith) Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. (1915)](https://film.one/media/person/3859423/gallery-b6c8662973e0.jpg) Title: Marguerite Sylva -- (Mrs. B.L. Smith) Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. (1915) — Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Marguerite_Sylva_-_%28Mrs._B.L._Smith%29_LCCN2014700446.jpg/1280px-Marguerite_Sylva_-_%28Mrs._B.L._Smith%29_LCCN2014700446.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Bain News Service,, publisher. M. Sylva [between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Title from unverified data provided by](https://film.one/media/person/3859423/gallery-7485702ec317.jpg) Bain News Service,, publisher. M. Sylva [between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Title from unverified data provided by — The Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/M._Sylva_LOC_25255663083.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Marguerite Sylva](https://film.one/media/person/3859423/gallery-3832bf8ec863.jpg) Marguerite Sylva — Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Marguerita_Sylva_As_Carmen_Opera_Comique.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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