- Wrote and starred in the 1948 play "Tit-Coq" (Little Rooster), about a young soldier from the Montreal slums who comes back from military service to discover that his middle-class fiancée has married another man. The play's success at a time when most French-Canadian plays were imitations of French and U.S. hits, earned Gelinas the nickname "Father of the French-Canadian national theatre."
- Wrote and starred in the popular French-Canadian radio series "Les Fridolinades" (The Adventures of Fridolin) from 1933 to 1947. Fridolin, a street-smart teen from the Montreal slums, epitomized for many the French Canadian character with his determination to tackle all problems that faced him and his exasperated cries of "Eh souffrance!" (Oh, the pain).
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