Cécile Aubry
Cécile Aubry ( born August 3, 1928 in Paris as Anne -José Bénard; † 19 July 2010 Dourdan ) was a French actress, children's author and television director.
Life and work
She was initially trained as a dancer. She scored her first big success already with her debut in the award- winning film Manon, Henri-Georges Clouzot the 1949 turned. She subsequently signed a contract at 20th Century Fox, but only worked in a few films. In The Black Rose she was seen on the side of Tyrone Power and Orson Welles in her only Hollywood movie. In Bluebeard she played the last wife of the title character, who was played by Hans Albers. In the French version of this parallel once with German and French actors once rotated with German -French-Swiss co-production Pierre Brasseur was her partner. Then she played only in a few European films, including Dancing in the Sunlight by Géza von Cziffra with ao Hans Rudolf Olden and plate. Success was not one of these films. In 1960 she retired from the film business.
A second, successful international career she made in the 1960s as an author of children's books. Some of these books she continued to serve as director and screenwriter for television. The children's book series to the pony " silver tail " ( in the original French "Poly " ) and the two boys and Pascal Vincent as the title hero appeared in Germany in Franz Schneider Verlag and was broadcast as a series in German television. Became popular also the book and television series Belle and Sebastian about a boy and his dog, after which the British indie pop band Belle and Sebastian named. The book served as a template for a 1981 Japanese anime.
Cécile Aubry was married from 1955 to 1959 with the son of the Pasha of Marrakech Tihami al - Glawi and lived for a time in Morocco, the marriage comes from a son. After the divorce, she moved back to France. Mehdi El Glaoui Her son, who the "Sebastian" embodied, among other things as a child and in the poly " Pascal ", has been working as an actor and director.
You last lived in a converted historic mill in the countryside near Paris, and died from cancer.