Audrey Young

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Audrey Young (born October 30, 1922 in Los Angeles , California - June 1, 2012 ) was an American actress and singer .

Life

Audrey Young was born in Los Angeles; her father worked in the film industry as a set maker and stage worker.

Young's film career began in the 1940s as a starlet and contract actress with the film production company Paramount Pictures . She played almost exclusively small roles there. Usually these consisted of only one scene; her name was often not even mentioned in the credits. She had a small role as a cloakroom in the 1944 film The Lost Weekend , with Ray Milland in the lead role. Your scene was later cut out of the film; What remained, however, was her hand with which she offered Milland his hat. While filming the film The Lost Weekend , she met the director of the film Billy Wilder , whom she married in 1949.

Young made her film debut in 1944 as an office worker in the film musical A Woman's Dreams , starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland. Between 1944 and 1949 Young starred in over twenty films, mostly minor roles as a girl, native, choir girl, telephone operator, receptionist and murder victim. She was often used as a singer, as a solo singer or as a member of a vocal troupe. She had vocal appearances in the films Out Of This World (1945), Blues Skies (with Bing Crosby in the leading role) and Easy Living (1949). She took on major film roles as an actress in the films George White's Scandals (1945), College Queen (1946) and Danger Street (1947).

As a singer, Young performed with Tommy Dorsey and his band in the 1940s .

After her marriage to Billy Wilder, Young only took on one other film role in the musical Tyrannical Love (1955) with Doris Day and James Cagney in the lead roles. She had a cameo , alongside Gary Cooper , in the film comedy Ariane - Love in the Afternoon (1957) directed by Billy Wilder . Young later worked as a costume consultant on the Billy Wilder films Some Like It Hot (1959) and The Apartment (1960).

Young was married to Billy Wilder from 1949 to 2002; they lived in Westwood for a long time . There were no children from the marriage.

After Wilder's death in 2002. Young donated 5 million dollars to build the Billy Wilder Theater, in memory of her husband, in the University of California belonging (UCLA) Hammer Museum in Westwood.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1944: Up in Arms
  • 1944: A Woman's Dreams (Lady in the Dark)
  • 1945: Out of This World
  • 1945: George White's Scandals
  • 1945: Follow That Woman
  • 1946: College Queen
  • 1946: Blue Skies
  • 1947: Danger Street
  • 1947: Song of the Orient (Song of Scheherazade)
  • 1947: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
  • 1949: Fate in Vienna (The Red Danube)
  • 1949: Easy Living
  • 1955: Tyrannical Love (Love Me or Leave Me)
  • 1957: Ariane - Love in the Afternoon

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Audrey Young Dies; Actress and Widow of Billy Wilder Obituary in: The Hollywood Reporter ; June 6, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c PASSINGS: Audrey Young, Mary Perry Obituary in: Los Angeles Times, June 9, 2012
  3. ↑ a b c Audrey Young, widow of Billy Wilder, dies at 89  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Obituary in: Variety ; June 6, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.variety.com  
personal data
SURNAME Young, Audrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California, United States
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 2012
Place of death Los Angeles , California, United States