Yvonne de Bray

French actress (1889–1954)

Yvonne de Bray
portrait in 1913 by Léopold Reutlinger
Born	Yvonne Laurence Blanche de Bray (1889-05-12)12 May 1889 Paris, France
Died	1 February 1954(1954-02-01) (aged 64) Paris, France
Years active	1907–1953

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.

In 1939, she and her partner Violette Morris invited Jean Cocteau to stay with them at their houseboat docked at Pont de Neuilly where he wrote the three-act play Les Monstres sacrés.^[1] She was a successful stage actress but it was Cocteau who introduced her as a film actress in his 1943 film, L'Éternel retour.^[2]

Selected filmography

L'Éternel Retour (1943)
L'Aigle à deux têtes (1948)
Les Parents terribles (1948)
Gigi (1949)
Agnes of Nothing (1950)
Chéri (1950)
Olivia (1951)
We Are All Murderers (1952)

References

^ Cari, Coline; Pruvost, Geneviève; Bonnet, Marie-Jo (2012). "Violence symbolique, violence fantasmée, l'exemple de la « scandaleuse » Violette Morris (1893-1944)". Penser la violence des femmes (in French). La Découverte. pp. 201–272. ISBN 9782707172969.
^ "Yvonne de Bray". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2019-06-24.