Cécile Aubry

Film actor

1928 – 2010

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Who was Cécile Aubry?

Cécile Aubry 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, 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. She had a strong performance in Christian-Jacque's Bluebeard, 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.

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Born
Aug 3, 1928
Paris
Children
Nationality
  • France
Died
Jul 19, 2010
Dourdan

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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