Adrienne D'Ambricourt (Actor)

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Movies starring Adrienne D'Ambricourt have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 62%.

Casablanca - released in 1943 - is Adrienne D'Ambricourt's highest rated movie, with a score of 89% based on 833 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Adrienne D'Ambricourt is Marie Galante - released in 1934 - with a score of 42% based on 2 reviews.

Actor Biography

Adrienne D Ambricourt (born Adrienne DuNontier; 2 June 1878 – 6 December 1957) was a French actress of the silent and sound film eras. She was born in Paris, and emigrated to the United States after the end of World War I.

She began acting in the 1922 Gershwin Broadway musical comedy, The French Doll, in which she had one of the main roles, "Baroness Mazulier". She made her film debut in the 1924 silent film, The Humming Bird, where she was one of Gloria Swanson's gang of thieves who turned into resistance fighters in World War I.

With the advent of talking pictures, and before dubbing cam into general use, Of Ambricourt was used in several films which were the French version of English language ones, such as When one is beautiful (The Easiest Way — 1931), The enigmatic Mr. Parkes (Slightly Scarlet — 1930), and Night of Spain (Transgression — 1931).

She appeared in over 70 films, including such classics as Casablanca, San Francisco, and To Have and Have Not, until about 1947, after which her film career began to decline. Her final role was in George Cukor''s Les Girls, starring Gene Kelly and Mitzi Gaynor, in which she played the wardrobe woman. With the advent of television, she appeared in several series during the 1950s, working right up to her death, which was caused by a heart attack during the gold following a car accident in Los Angeles.

Adrienne D'Ambricourt has acted in films with Louis Mercier, George Davis, Gino Corrado and Eugene Borden.

Adrienne D'Ambricourt has worked with these film directors: Michael Curtiz, Howard Hawks, George Cukor and Ernst Lubitsch.