Yvonne de Bray
Yvonne de Bray (12 May 1889 – 1 February 1954) was a French stage and film actress. She was born Yvonne Laurence Blanche de Bray in Paris and died there. In 1939, she and her partner Violette Morris invited Jean Cocteau to stay with them at their houseboat docked at Pont de Neuilly where he wrote the three-act play Les Monstres sacrés.
Yvonne de Bray
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- Birth Name
- Yvonne Laurence Blanche de Bray
- Born
- 12 May 1889
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- 1 February 1954
- Full name
- Yvonne Laurence Blanche de Bray.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- actress.
- Languages
- French.
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Yvonne de Bray (12 May 1889 – 1 February 1954) was a French stage and film actress. She was born Yvonne Laurence Blanche de Bray in Paris and died there. In 1939, she and her partner Violette Morris invited Jean Cocteau to stay with them at their houseboat docked at Pont de Neuilly where he wrote the three-act play Les Monstres sacrés.
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She was a successful stage actress but it was Cocteau who introduced her as a film actress in his 1943 film, The Eternal Return.
Louis Gauthier et Yvonne de Bray dans Le ruisseau de Pierre Wolff, Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 21-03-1907, dessin d’Yves Marevéry.
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• Birth Name — Yvonne Laurence Blanche de Bray • Born — 12 May 1889 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 1 February 1954 • Place of death — Paris, France • Years Active — 1907–1953
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• The Eternal Return (1943) • The Eagle with Two Heads (1948) • Les Parents terribles (1948) • Gigi (1949) • Agnes of Nothing (1950) • Chéri (1950) • Olivia (1951) • We Are All Murderers (1952)
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9th arrondissement of Paris.
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- 1.Archives de Paris , acte de naissance , année 1887 (page 6/31) (avec mention marginale de décès).
- 2.Aucune mention de ce mariage sur son acte de naissance ainsi que sur celui d'Henry Bataille. Mention pourtant obligatoire depuis 1897. Par contre, Yvonne était mariée depuis le 10 février 1904 à Paris 9 - acte 146 avec Georges Emmanuel Bonnet, dont elle divorcera en 1909 - registre des mariages à Paris 9 - acte 1175 (vue 16/31).
- 3.Penser la violence des femmes. La Découverte. 2012.
- 4.Archives de Paris 8e, acte de décès , année 1954 (vue 9/31).
- 5.Carole Weisweiller et Patrick Renaudot, Jean Marais, le bien-aimé, Éditions de La Maule, 2013, page 147.
- 6.Registre journalier d'inhumation de Paris Père-Lachaise de 1954, en date du 3 février (vue 29/31).
- 7.appl. BRAY Yvonne de (1889-1954). Cimetière du Père Lachaise – APPL. 23/09/2024.
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- Olivier Barrot et Raymond Chirat, Noir et Blanc, 250 acteurs du cinéma français 1930-1960, Flammarion, 2000
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