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Annabella is a Actor French born on 15 july 1907 at Paris (France)

Annabella

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Birth name Suzanne Georgette Charpentier
Nationality France
Birth 15 july 1907 at Paris (France)
Death 18 september 1996 (at 89 years) at Neuilly-sur-Seine (France)

Annabella (14 July 1907 – 18 September 1996) was a French cinema actress who appeared in 46 films between 1927 and 1952, including some Hollywood films during the late 1930s and 1940s.

Born Suzanne Georgette Charpentier in La Varenne Saint Hilaire, France. Annabella's chance to enter films came when her father entertained a film producer who gave her a small part in Napoléon in 1927. It was not until she starred in Le Million that she was acclaimed and over the following decade established herself as one of France's most popular cinema actresses. In 1936 she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for Veille d'armes (1935).



She was cast as the female lead in the British-made film Wings of the Morning (1937) opposite Henry Fonda. Under contract to 20th Century Fox, she traveled to America and appeared in Suez (1938) with Loretta Young and Tyrone Power. Her romance with Power was widely reported by movie magazines of the day. Darryl Zanuck, movie mogul at 20th Century-Fox, did not want his matinee idol married. He offered Annabella a multi-movie deal that would take her overseas. She refused to leave Power, and on completion of Suez, she returned to France to obtain a divorce from her then-husband, Jean Murat. She and Power married on 23 April 1939. The two honeymooned in Rome. Within a few months, Annabella and Power had again flown to Europe to bring Annabella's mother back to live in their home, while her father and brother remained behind. Her brother was ultimately shot and killed by the Nazis. Annabella made a return trip to bring her daughter, Anne, back from France to live with them. Power adopted Anne before leaving for the service. Anne Power later married actor Oskar Werner.

Darryl F. Zanuck, angry with her for marrying his top box office star did not cast her in movies despite Annabella’s contract with 20th Century-Fox. Neither was she loaned out to other studios. She and Power appeared together in the play Liliom in New Haven, Connecticut. While Power was away at war, Annabella appeared in Blithe Spirit in Chicago. On Broadway, she received excellent notices for her work in Jacobowsky and the Colonel, directed by Elia Kazan, in 1944. Annabella also embarked on an affair with author Roald Dahl; she had refused to give Power a divorce to marry Judy Garland, and her marriage was strained. Dahl told his wife, Liccy, that it was an intense and passionate relationship, during which Dahl learned a lot about sex from the actress.

When Power returned from the war, the couple decided to try to make their marriage work once again. Annabella again worked in films, playing the female lead in 13 Rue Madeleine (1947) opposite James Cagney. She and Power divorced in 1948, and Annabella returned to France. In 1952 she made her final film, and retired after a 1954 TV appearance.

Annabella and Tyrone Power remained very close, and after his divorce from Linda Christian, he attempted to reconcile with her, confessing that in giving her up, he had made a terrible mistake. However, Annabella refused. Power informed her that he would not take the elevator to leave her apartment, but the stairs, in case she changed her mind and called him back. She did not.

Annabella died from a heart attack at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, aged 89, and was interred in Passy Cemetery.

Biography

Grâce à une photo envoyée par son père à un producteur, Annabella débute à seize ans au cinéma dans le Napoléon d'Abel Gance. Elle y tient le rôle de Violine Fleuri et réussit à se faire remarquer malgré une distribution prestigieuse. C'est à l'occasion de ce tournage qu'elle trouve son nom de scène grâce à une suggestion d'Abel Gance, inspirée par un personnage d'un poème d'Edgar Poe : Annabel Lee. Elle a une liaison avec son protagoniste, Albert Dieudonné, et a avec lui une fille, Annie, qu'il reconnaît.

C'est le cinéma parlant qui fait d'elle une star. Le film de René Clair, Le Million, en 1931, la révèle au grand public comme l'une des plus grandes séductrices du cinéma français. Elle est aux côtés de Jean Gabin, la belle Berbère Aïcha la Slaoui dans La Bandera de Julien Duvivier. Elle épouse le comédien Jean Murat (1934-1938). Elle a pendant cette période quelques rôles en France, notamment dans Hôtel du Nord de Marcel Carné en 1938.

À la fin des années 1930, elle tente l'aventure d'Hollywood et y rencontre Tyrone Power qu'elle épouse en 1939 et dont elle divorce en 1948. Il adopte sa fille Anne peu après le mariage.

Après son second divorce, elle rentre en France en 1948. Mais sa carrière marque un singulier coup d'arrêt et Annabella passe les dernières années de sa vie dans sa propriété de Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle au Pays basque, notamment avec Jules Roy.

Elle meurt en 1996 d'une crise cardiaque. Elle est inhumée à Passy, en Haute-Savoie.

Usually with

Abel Gance
Abel Gance
(1 films)
Paul Amiot
Paul Amiot
(4 films)
Jean Murat
Jean Murat
(4 films)
Paul Ollivier
Paul Ollivier
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Annabella (41 films)

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Actress

Under the Red Robe
Directed by Victor Sjöström
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Histoire de France
Actors Conrad Veidt, Annabella, Raymond Massey, Romney Brent, Wyndham Goldie, Lawrence Grant
Roles Lady Marguerite of Fiox
Rating59% 2.953912.953912.953912.953912.95391
This script must be run from the command line
The Man Who Returns from Afar, 1h22
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Annabella, Paul Bernard, Maria Casarès, Daniel Lecourtois, Édouard Delmont, France Ellys
Roles Fanny de la Bossière

Un homme, après une bagarre, croit avoir tué son cousin, et cache le corps. Le mort n'était qu'évanoui, mais lorsqu'il reprend connaissance, il est devenu amnésique. Lorsqu'elle le revoit, la femme qui l'aimait le prend pour un fantôme.
Disorder
Disorder (1950)
, 18minutes
Directed by Jacques Baratier
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Actors Annabella, Blanchette Brunoy, Jean Cocteau, Sophie Desmarets, Jean Genet, Juliette Gréco
Rating58% 2.9191952.9191952.9191952.9191952.919195
Dans le quartier de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, à Paris, au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des rencontres témoignent de l'émancipation de la jeunesse et du bouillonnement créatif dans le domaine des arts.
Last Love
Last Love (1949)
, 1h39
Directed by Jean Stelli
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Annabella, Jean Debucourt, Yvette Etiévant, Suzanne Flon, Georges Marchal, Jeanne Moreau
Roles Hélène Fontenay
Rating56% 2.819092.819092.819092.819092.81909
Bâti sur un divorce, Hélène connaît un grand amour avec le jeune Alain, durant dix années. Une vague cousine d'Alain, Michelle, à laquelle il est forcé de s'intéresser, prend bientôt dans son cœur la place d'Hélène, mais la jeune fille voudrait ne pas briser le foyer. Quant à la femme, de plus en plus jalouse, elle se fait accidenter et est transportée à l'hôpital. Alain se rend compte que cet amour prolongé depuis des années est meilleur pour lui qu'une passade et qu'un amour même nouveau.
Eternal Conflict, 1h35
Directed by Georges Lampin
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Fernand Ledoux, Annabella, Michel Auclair, Louis Salou, Line Noro, Jeannette Batti
Roles Florence aka 'Lili'
Rating60% 3.0058353.0058353.0058353.0058353.005835
Le professeur Janvier, un enseignant désabusé, n'aime plus son existence ; sa fille est morte, et il ne supporte plus son épouse, sa belle-mère et ses supérieurs. Il quitte tout pour devenir clown dans un cirque. La très jolie acrobate du cirque, Lili, le prend en sympathie et fait de lui son confident. Lili est prise entre ses deux amants, le riche Chardeuil qui est marié, et le bel et indifférent Antonio. Janvier veut lui faire changer de vie pour qu'elle retrouve l'estime d'elle-même, mais l'entreprise est périlleuse...
13 Rue Madeleine, 1h35
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres War, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films, Children's films
Actors James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte, Frank Latimore, Walter Abel, Melville Cooper
Roles Suzanne de Beaumont
Rating68% 3.4432353.4432353.4432353.4432353.443235
Bob Sharkey (James Cagney) is an instructor of the 77th group of espionage agent candidates to be trained in the United States to infiltrate Nazi-occupied Europe. He is alerted that one of the students is a German agent and told to identify him or her. Sharkey is able to determine that the enemy agent is "Bill O'Connell" (Richard Conte), who performs too well when he succeeds in a field problem designed to cause the novices to make mistakes. Sharkey's boss, Charles Gibson (Walter Abel), confirms that O'Connell is really Wilhelm Kuncel, one of Germany's top agents but tells Sharkey to pass him, as they know Kuncel's mission is to determine the date and location of the planned Allied invasion of Europe. They intend to provide Kuncel with false information to pass along to his superiors.
Tonight We Raid Calais, 1h10
Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Annabella, John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb, Beulah Bondi, Blanche Yurka, Howard Da Silva
Roles Odette Bonnard
Rating62% 3.141743.141743.141743.141743.14174
Geoffrey Carter (John Sutton) a young commando British intelligence officer, is sent into occupied France as a one-man raid to destroy a munitions plant that manufactures bombs in Nazi-occupied France with the help from a patriotic farmer, M. Bonnard (Lee J. Cobb). Sutton confronts a French maiden Odette Bonnard (Annabella) who hates the British and the Germans.
Bomber's Moon, 1h7
Directed by Harold D. Schuster, Edward Ludwig, Robert Florey, John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors George Montgomery, Annabella, Kent Taylor, Walter Kingsford, Martin Kosleck, Dennis Hoey
Roles Lt. Alexandra Zorich, MD
Rating66% 3.306173.306173.306173.306173.30617
Captain Jeff Dakin (George Montgomery) is shot down over Germany on a bombing raid as he sees his brother, Danny (Richard Graham) serving on the same aircraft, shot dead as he parachutes out of the stricken aircraft. Imprisoned in a camp, Dakin conspires with Alexandra "Alec" Zorich (Annabella), a beautiful Russian doctor, and Captain Paul Husnik (Kent Taylor), a Czech resistance leader, to mount an escape. They escape during an air raid and make their way towards safety, but the Czech is not who he seems.
Hôtel du Nord, 1h35
Directed by Marcel Carné
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Annabella, Arletty, Louis Jouvet, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Andrex, Paulette Dubost
Roles Renée
Rating74% 3.742323.742323.742323.742323.74232
The film follows the comings and goings at the Hôtel du Nord on the banks of the Canal St. Martin in Paris. The films begins with the gathering of many of the hotel's occupants around the dinner table for the first communion of Michèle, who lives in the hotel with her policeman father, Maltaverne. Madame Lecouvreur tells Michèle to bring a piece of cake upstairs to Raymonde (Arletty), who is talking with her boyfriend, Edmond (Louis Jouvet). A prostitute, Raymonde leaves Edmond, a photographer, who wants to develop his film. In the meantime, a young couple, Renée (Annabella) and Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont), enter the hotel and rent a room for the night. Once alone, Renée and Pierre discuss their plan to kill themselves as they feel they have nothing left to live for. Pierre pulls out a gun and shoots Renee, but then loses his confidence and is unable to shoot himself too. Edmond hears the shots next door and breaks into the room to find Pierre standing over Renée's body. Telling Pierre to escape, Edmond lies to the police and says he found the girl alone lying dead in the room. Raymonde, having stopped to have a drink with the celebration downstairs, is still in the hotel when the police arrive, and is put in jail for four days when an officer finds that her papers are not in order.
Suez
Suez (1938)
, 1h44
Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, La fin du monde, Children's films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella, Leon Ames, J. Edward Bromberg, Joseph Schildkraut
Roles Toni Pellerin
Rating65% 3.2907153.2907153.2907153.2907153.290715
During a tennis match in Paris between Ferdinand de Lesseps (Tyrone Power) and his friend Vicomte Rene de Latour (Joseph Schildkraut), the enthusiastic admiration of Countess Eugenie de Montijo (Loretta Young) for de Lesseps attracts the attention of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (Leon Ames). Bonaparte sees to it that both she and de Lesseps are invited to his reception. At the party, a fortuneteller predicts that Eugenie will have a troubled life, but also wear a crown, and that de Lesseps will dig a ditch. Entranced by Eugenie's beauty, Bonaparte arranges for his romantic rival to be assigned to a diplomatic post in Egypt, joining his father, Count Mathieu de Lesseps (Henry Stephenson), the Consul-General. De Lesseps impulsively asks Eugenie to marry him immediately, but she turns him down.
The Baroness and the Butler, 1h20
Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors William Powell, Annabella, Helen Westley, Henry Stephenson, Joseph Schildkraut, J. Edward Bromberg
Roles Baroness Katrina Marissey
Rating64% 3.2407553.2407553.2407553.2407553.240755
Johann Porok, a third-generation butler in the service of Count Albert Sandor, the Prime Minister of Hungary, is unexpectedly elected to the Hungarian parliament, representing the opposition social progressive party. Despite this, he insists on remaining a servant as well. Count Sandor is pleased with this peculiar arrangement, as he has found Johann to be the perfect butler and does not wish to break in a new man. His daughter, Baroness Katrina Marissey, however, considers Johann a traitor and treats him very coldly.
Wings of the Morning, 1h29
Directed by Glenn Tryon, Harold D. Schuster
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Annabella, Henry Fonda, Leslie Banks, Stewart Rome, Helen Haye, Edward Underdown
Roles Young Marie (Prologue) / Maria, Duchess of Leyva
Rating57% 2.8593952.8593952.8593952.8593952.859395
The story, set in the late 1880s, concerns the tempestuous love between an Irish nobleman and the fiery Spanish gypsy he loves.
The Citadel of Silence, 1h38
Directed by Marcel L'Herbier, Ève Francis
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Annabella, Pierre Renoir, Bernard Lancret, Gilberte Géniat, Pauline Carton, Pierre Larquey
Roles Viana Volonska
Rating65% 3.288873.288873.288873.288873.28887
Le cadre historique est une rébellion des étudiants contre le tsar Nicolas II. Viana essaie de tuer le gouverneur mais c'est son amant qui est arrêté et envoyé dans une sinistre forteresse. Viana épouse le commandant de la forteresse pour s'approcher de son cher prisonnier...
Dinner at the Ritz, 1h17
Directed by Harold D. Schuster
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Annabella, David Niven, Paul Lukas, Romney Brent, Francis L. Sullivan, Stewart Rome
Roles Ranie Racine
Rating60% 3.000633.000633.000633.000633.00063
The daughter of a murdered banker is traveling in disguise while she tracks those among her father's colleagues who looted his bank, and plotted against him by arranging his murder.