Cécile Aubry

Born: 1928-08-03

Cécile Aubry (3 August 1928 – 19 July 2010) was a French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director. Born Anne-José Madeleine Henriette Bénard, Aubry began her career as a dancer. At age 20, she was signed to 20th Century Fox. She made her break as the star of Henri-Georges Clouzot's Manon (1949), which won the Golden Lion at the famed Venice Film Festival. That brought her a leading role alongside Tyrone Power and Orson Welles in American director Henry Hathaway's feature The Black Rose (1950). She had a strong performance in Christian-Jacque's Bluebeard (1952), one of the first French-produced films to be made in color. For a short time, she was a Hollywood success, signing a lucrative contract with Fox, employing her parents as a publicity team, and regularly appearing in French film magazines as an example of the perfect hybrid of Franco-American femininity. Her film career was short. It was interrupted by a secret six-year marriage to Si Brahim El Glaoui, the eldest son of the pasha of Marrakesh. She announced her retirement from film in 1959, claiming that she had only enjoyed cinema for its travel opportunities. She went on to write children's books and scenarios for children's television with considerable success. She was known in France for her TV series for children, Poly, about a boy and a horse, and Belle et Sébastien, adapted for television from her books. The main character in both series was played by her son, Mehdi El Glaoui (credited as "Mehdi"). On 19 July 2010, she died from lung cancer in Dourdan (Essonne), France, aged 81. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cécile Aubry,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Manon

as Manon Lescaut
Released: 1949-03-09

Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a...

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The Black Rose

as Maryam
Released: 1950-09-01

In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England....

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Bluebeard

as Aline
Released: 1951-09-27

Just before wowing international critics and moviegoers with his adventure romp Fanfan la...

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The Irony of Money

as La extranjera
Released: 1957-03-05

The finding of a wallet with a lot of money is the common theme of four stories, featuring a...

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It Happened on the 36 Candles

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1957-10-16

Rejecting the union of her daughter Brigitte with a modest worker, Madame Magnin invents an...

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One Night at the Tabarin

as uncredited
Released: 1947-12-19

Together with his uncompromising friend Marie Girard, André de Lurvire clamors for moral reasons...

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Piovuto dal cielo

as Maria
Released: 1953-06-26

A pickpoket falls in love with one of his victims.

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Vivement dimanche

as Self
First aired: 1998-09-20

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30 millions d'amis

as Self
First aired: 1976-01-06

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