Mila Parély
Mila Parély (7 October 1917 – 14 January 2012), born Olga Colette Peszynski, was a French actress of Polish ancestry best known for the roles of Félicie, Belle's eldest sister, in Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête (1946), and as Geneviève in La Règle du jeu (1939). She had a relationship with actor Jean Marais, with whom she worked on Beauty and the Beast: they remained lifelong friends, and in the 1970s she became his business associate in a pottery shop and art gallery. She gave up acting in the late 1950s in order to take care of her racing car driving husband Taso Mathieson, who had been injured in an accident.
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Mila Parély
Bibliothèque nationale de France · Public domain
- Name
- Mila Parély
- Birth Name
- Olga Colette Peszynski
- Born
- 7 October 1917
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- 14 January 2012
- Place of death
- Vichy, France
- Occupation
- Actress
- Full name
- Olga Colette Peszynski.
- Nationality
- France.
- Languages
- French.
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Mila Parély (7 October 1917 – 14 January 2012), born Olga Colette Peszynski, was a French actress of Polish ancestry best known for the roles of Félicie, Belle's eldest sister, in Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête (1946), and as Geneviève in La Règle du jeu (1939). She had a relationship with actor Jean Marais, with whom she worked on Beauty and the Beast: they remained lifelong friends, and in the 1970s she became his business associate in a pottery shop and art gallery. She gave up acting in the late 1950s in order to take care of her racing car driving husband Taso Mathieson, who had been injured in an accident.
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She also worked with such notable directors as Max Ophüls, Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson, Fritz Lang and G.W. She returned to acting briefly in the late 1980s. Parély died on 14 January 2012, aged 94, in Vichy, where she had spent the last fifty years of her life.
Sujet: La règle du jeu
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Sujet: Les anges du péché (film)
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• Name — Mila Parély • Birth Name — Olga Colette Peszynski • Born — 7 October 1917 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 14 January 2012 • Place of death — Vichy, France • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1932–1991
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• Compliments of Mister Flow (1936) • Royal Waltz (1936) • The Brighton Twins (1936) • The Shanghai Drama (1938) • The Rules of the Game (1939) • The White Slave (1939) • The Phantom Carriage (1939) • Extenuating Circumstances (1939) • They Were Twelve Women (1940) • Le Lit à colonnes (1942) • The White Truck (1943) • My Last Mistress (1943) • Father Serge (1945) • The Black Cavalier (1945) • Beauty and the Beast (1946) • Women's Games (1946) • Destiny (1946) • Star Without Light (1946) • Last Refuge (1947) • Snowbound (1948) • Mission in Tangier (1949) • Véronique (1950) • Le Plaisir (1952) • Blood Orange (1953)
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9th arrondissement of Paris.
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- 1.Insee. Olga Colette Peszynski, alias Mila Parély, dans le fichier des personnes décédées. deces.matchid.io.
- 2.Visionneuse - Archives des actes de naissance de Paris , du 5 septembre au 13 novembre 1917, page 15/31,. archives.paris.fr.
- 3.Les Gens du cinéma. Fiche de Mila Parély. lesgensducinema.com.
- 4.Olivier Barrot et Raymond Chirat, Noir & Blanc, 250 acteurs du cinéma français 1930-1960, Flammarion, 2000
- 5.Frédéric Lecomte-Dieu, Marais & Cocteau, L’abécédaire, Éditions Jourdan, collection Les Mythiques, 2013, pages 209-210
- 6.Henri-Jean Servat, Jean Marais, l'enfant terrible, Éditions Albin Michel, 1999, page 84
- 7.Jean Marais, Histoires de ma vie, Éditions Albin Michel, 1975
- 8.Jean Marais, L'inconcevable Jean Cocteau, Éditions du Rocher, 1993
- 9.Télé 7 Jours , semaine du 5 au , pages 52 et 53, article de Georges Hilleret : "Parce qu'il ne joue plus assez, Jean Marais ouvre, à Paris, un magasin de poteries"
- 10.Yvan Foucart. Biographie de Mila Parély : un charme venu d'ailleurs. lesgensducinema.com. 3 10 2007.
- 11.L'@ide-mémoire, encyclopédie du cinéma français. Fiche de Mila Parély. www.aide-memoire.org.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Olivier Barrot et Raymond Chirat, Inoubliables ! Visages du cinéma français 1930-1950, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1986
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