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Yvonne de Bray is a Actor French born on 12 may 1887 at Paris (France)

Yvonne de Bray

Yvonne de Bray
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Birth name Yvonne Laurence Blanche de Bray
Nationality France
Birth 12 may 1887 at Paris (France)
Death 1 february 1954 (at 66 years)

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.

Biography

Enfant, Yvonne de Bray débute sur scène aux côtés de Réjane et de Sarah Bernhardt. Puis elle devient la compagne du dramaturge Henry Bataille (1872-1922) et elle interprète au théâtre ses pièces mais aussi celles de Tristan Bernard, de de Flers et Caillavet ou de Georges Feydeau. En 1922, elle abandonne la scène après la mort son compagnon.

Elle sera l'amante pendant plusieurs années de la championne sportive Violette Morris.

En 1938, Jean Cocteau parvient à la convaincre de remonter sur scène pour interpréter, dans Les Parents terribles, le rôle de Sophie qu'il a écrit spécialement pour elle, mais un problème de santé l'empêche de jouer ; en 1948, elle sera Sophie dans le film de Cocteau adapté de la pièce. Au théâtre, elle interprète Cocteau et Jean Giraudoux et tourne quelques films, dont L'Éternel Retour de Jean Delannoy (1943), L'Aigle à deux têtes de Cocteau (1948), Nous sommes tous des assassins d'André Cayatte (1952) ou Quand tu liras cette lettre de Jean-Pierre Melville (1953).

Elle meurt en 1954 et est enterrée au cimetière du Père-Lachaise.(division 8).

Best films

Gigi (1949)
(Actress)

Usually with

Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau
(4 films)
Jean Marais
Jean Marais
(5 films)
Georges Auric
Georges Auric
(5 films)
Roger Hubert
Roger Hubert
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Yvonne de Bray (13 films)

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Actress

When You Read This Letter, 1h44
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Juliette Gréco, Philippe Lemaire, Daniel Cauchy, Yvonne Sanson, Yvonne de Bray, Roland Lesaffre
Roles La Voyageuse
Rating65% 3.2881553.2881553.2881553.2881553.288155
Les parents de Thérèse et Denise Voise viennent de mourir, et Thérèse annule son entrée imminente au couvent pour s’occuper de sa sœur cadette. Max, jeune garagiste et séducteur impénitent, abuse de Denise qui tente ensuite de mettre fin à ses jours. En réparation, Thérèse demande alors à Max d’épouser Denise. Il fait semblant d’accepter avec le dessein de séduire Thérèse à son tour. Celle-ci, sensible à son charme, discerne néanmoins ses tortueux objectifs et, fidèle à son engagement religieux, va se mettre en devoir de sauver cette âme en perdition. Elle ne pourra pas contrarier le Destin qui frappera mortellement Max alors qu’il tentait de s'enfuir avec une somme d’argent subtilisée à Denise.
Love, Madame, 1h30
Directed by Gilles Grangier
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Arletty, Jean Marais, François Périer, Marie Daëms, Clément Thierry, Nadine Basile
Roles Self (uncredited)
Rating46% 2.333912.333912.333912.333912.33391
Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François has other plans.
Leathernose, 1h32
Directed by Mauro Bolognini, Yves Allégret
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Jean Marais, Françoise Christophe, Jean Debucourt, Massimo Girotti, Mariella Lotti, Valentine Tessier
Roles Marie-Bonne
Rating60% 3.0425353.0425353.0425353.0425353.042535
L'histoire dramatique du jeune et fringant gentilhomme Roger de Tainchebraye, don Juan de sa Normandie natale, défiguré en 1814, pendant la Campagne de France, obligé de porter un masque dissimulant sa mutilation. On le surnomme « Nez de Cuir ».
We Are All Murderers, 1h55
Directed by André Cayatte
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Marcel Mouloudji, Raymond Pellegrin, Antoine Balpêtré, Claude Laydu, Roland Lesaffre, Georges Poujouly
Roles La chiffonnière
Rating71% 3.570373.570373.570373.570373.57037
René Le Guen (Marcel Mouloudji) is a former resistance fighter trained as a young man as a professional killer. After World War II, he has no qualms in applying these skills and is arrested for murder. Convicted and condemned to death, he is held in a prison cell with other murderers sentenced to death. Men to be guillotined are taken out at night, so they wait in fear and only sleep after dawn. While Le Guen's lawyer (Claude Laydu) tries to achieve a pardon for his client, three of Le Guen's fellow inmates are executed, one by one, in the course of the film.
Olivia
Olivia (1951)
, 1h35
Directed by Jacqueline Audry
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about education, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Edwige Feuillère, Simone Simon, Yvonne de Bray, Suzanne Dehelly, Marie-Claire Olivia, Philippe Noiret
Roles Victoire
Rating68% 3.4309453.4309453.4309453.4309453.430945
Olivia, an English teenager, arrives at a finishing school in France. Olivia finds comfort in the school which differs greatly from her former restrictive English boarding school and where the students and faculty are welcoming.
Dear Caroline, 2h20
Directed by Richard Pottier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Martine Carol, Alfred Adam, Marie Déa, Odile Versois, Jacques Dacqmine, Raymond Souplex
Roles La duchesse de Bussez
Rating59% 2.9558352.9558352.9558352.9558352.955835
France, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractive soldier Gaston. It's love at first sight but Gaston does not wish to make a commitment because a military career waits for him. Caroline marries then a politician but the French Revolution bursts and Caroline has to run away to escape the guillotine. By running away she meets Gaston again who decides to help her.
Chéri
Chéri (1950)
, 1h30
Directed by Pierre Billon, Pierre Billon
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Jean Desailly, Marcelle Chantal, Yvonne de Bray, Marcelle Derrien, Jane Marken, Made Siamé
Roles La Copine
Rating66% 3.3328453.3328453.3328453.3328453.332845
Séduisant rejeton d'une ancienne demi-mondaine, Chéri plaît aux femmes, ou plus exactement aux amies de sa mère, puisque celles-ci marquent les limites de sa vie sociale. Il entretient une liaison avec l'une d'elles, Léa, dont la beauté, quoiqu'évidente encore, se fane inexorablement. Contraint d'épouser Edmée, une femme plus jeune, il ne parvient pas à oublier celle qui fut sa maîtresse.
Agnes of Nothing, 1h35
Directed by Pierre Billon, Pierre Billon
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Danièle Delorme, Paul Meurisse, Ketti Gallian, Yvonne de Bray, Jane Morlet
Roles Madame de Chaligny
Rating61% 3.0656753.0656753.0656753.0656753.065675
Poussée par son mari à s'installer dans le château de famille, Agnès y retrouve sa belle sœur Alix. Son mari Carlos, souvent absent, se désintéresse de son épouse et se rapproche peu à peu d'Agnès qui finira par renoncer à cette relation.
Gigi
Gigi (1949)
, 1h22
Directed by Jacqueline Audry
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Danièle Delorme, Gaby Morlay, Jean Tissier, Franck Villard, Yvonne de Bray, Paul Demange
Roles Mamita
Rating60% 3.0453.0453.0453.0453.045
The story begins in 1900 fin de siecle Paris, through the eyes of the elderly Honoré LaChaille, who is a man who knows how to fully appreciate beauty, as he is watching the wonderfully untouched and lively sixteen-year-old school girl Gilberte "Gigi" Alvarez. Gigi happens to be the young ward and grand daughter of Honoré's old friend and amorous acquaintance, the elegant Mme. Alvarez.
The Eagle with Two Heads, 1h37
Directed by Jean Cocteau
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about anarchism, Politique, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Films about royalty
Actors Edwige Feuillère, Jean Marais, Jean Debucourt, Silvia Monfort, Jacques Varennes, Yvonne de Bray
Roles La présidente
Rating65% 3.296023.296023.296023.296023.29602
On the 10th anniversary of the assassination of the king, his reclusive widow, the Queen, arrives to spend the night at the castle of Krantz. Stanislas, a young anarchist poet who seeks to assassinate her, enters her room, wounded; he looks exactly like the dead king, and the Queen shelters him instead of handing him over to the police. She sees him as the welcome embodiment of her own death, calling him Azrael (the angel of death). An ambiguous love develops between them, uniting them in a bid to outwit the machinations of the court politicians, represented by the Comte de Foëhn, the chief of police, and Édith de Berg, the Queen's companion. In order to remain true to their ideals and to each other, the Queen and Stanislas have to play their parts in a bizarre private tragedy, which the world will never understand.
The Storm Within, 1h49
Directed by Jean Cocteau
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Jean Marais, Yvonne de Bray, Gabrielle Dorziat, Marcel André, Josette Day, Jean Cocteau
Roles Yvonne dite 'Sophie'
Rating68% 3.4378553.4378553.4378553.4378553.437855
In a rambling apartment a middle-aged couple, Yvonne and Georges, live with their 22-year-old son Michel and Yvonne's spinster sister Léonie ("tante Léo"), who has also been in love with Georges. Yvonne is a reclusive semi-invalid, dependent on her insulin treatment, and intensely possessive of her son (who returns her immoderate affection and calls her "Sophie"); Georges distractedly pursues his eccentric inventions; it is left to Léo to preserve such order as she can in their life and their apartment, which she describes as a "gypsy caravan" ("la roulotte"). When Michel announces that he is in love with a girl, Madeleine, whom he wishes to introduce to them, his parents are immediately hostile and seek to forbid the relationship, reducing Michel to despair. Georges realises that Madeleine is the same woman who has been his own mistress in recent months, and he confesses all to Léo, who devises a plan to extricate father and son by forcing Madeleine into silent surrender of them both.
The Eternal Return, 1h55
Directed by Jean Delannoy
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Madeleine Sologne, Jean Marais, Jean Murat, Junie Astor, Jane Marken, Roland Toutain
Roles Gertrude Frossin
Rating71% 3.5702353.5702353.5702353.5702353.570235
Transposition moderne par Jean Cocteau de la légende amoureuse de Tristan et Iseult accommodée et actualisée. Les personnages de la légende : Tristan devenu Patrice et Yseult appelée Nathalie revivent l'histoire d'amour éternel, tandis que le roi Marc’h devenu l'oncle Marc, une autre Nathalie aussi brune que la première est blonde, le nain Achille et les redoutables parents vont s’opposer à cette union. Le philtre et la mort font également partie du jeu ainsi que la haine et la jalousie.