Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Marleybone – Marcel Meyow

Marcel Meyow – Marcel Marceau
http://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Marcel_Meyow#ixzz7ais81NI4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Marceau
https://youtu.be/XEsfpRrfXf4

Marcel Meyow is a mime cat who can be found locked up in Scotland Yard for a crime he didn’t commit. Speaking to Marcel will initiate a series of side quests that relate to helping him out of his predicament.

Marcel Marceau born Marcel Mangel; (22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a French actor and mime artist most famous for his stage persona, “Bip the Clown”. He referred to mime as the “art of silence” and he performed professionally worldwide for over 60 years. As a Jewish youth, he lived in hiding and worked with the French Resistance during most of World War II, giving his first major performance to 3,000 troops after the liberation of Paris in August. Following the war, he studied dramatic art and mime in Paris.

In 1959, he established his own pantomime school in Paris, and subsequently set up the Marceau Foundation to promote the art in the U.S. Among his various awards and honors he was made “Grand Officier de la Légion d’Honneur” (1998) and was awarded the National Order of Merit (1998) in France. He won the Emmy Award for his work on television, was elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. He had a 20-year friendship with Michael Jackson, who said he used some of Marceau’s techniques in his own dance steps.

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This is the sixty-sixth article chronicling the #W101PopCulture references starting in Wizard City and the twenty-third Marleybone article. The current list of all the (known) Marleybone references are located here.

Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.

Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages

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