Adrienne D'Ambricourt
6/2/1878
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 came into general use, D'Ambricourt was used in several films which were the French version of English language ones, such as Quand on est belle (The Easiest Way — 1931), L'énigmatique Mr. Parkes (Slightly Scarlet — 1930), and Nuit d'Espagne (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 or following a car accident in Los Angeles.
Adrienne D'Ambricourt
Appeared In:
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History Is Made at Night
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City in Darkness
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The Purple Mask
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Experiment Perilous
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God Gave Me Twenty Cents
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Wages of Virtue
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Peter Ibbetson
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
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Stingaree
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Beautiful Love
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Saratoga Trunk
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Mama Steps Out
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This Modern Age
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Artists and Models Abroad
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Men in Her Life
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Scotland Yard
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Casablanca
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Transgression
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
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Bulldog Drummond's Bride
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The Cat and the Fiddle
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Gallant Lady
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Disgraced!
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Calcutta
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War Mamas
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We Have Our Moments
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The Bad One
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Live, Love and Learn
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I Met My Love Again
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I'll Give a Million
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
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Scandal Sheet
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
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Nurse Edith Cavell
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Pack Up Your Troubles
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Dangerously Yours
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To Have and Have Not
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The Eagle and the Hawk
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Design for Living
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Two Girls on Broadway
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Marie Galante
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Footlights and Fools
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Forty Little Mothers
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The Song of Songs
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What a Widow!
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Bal Tabarin
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What Price Hollywood?
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The White Cliffs of Dover
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Seventh Heaven
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The Humming Bird
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
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Paris Underground
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San Francisco
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Svengali
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Our Modern Maidens