Cecile Aubry

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Cécile Aubry (1969)

Cécile Aubry (born August 3, 1928 in Paris as Anne-José Bénard , † July 19, 2010 in Dourdan ) was a French actress , children's book author and television director .

Life

She was initially trained as a dancer. She achieved her first major success with her debut in the award-winning film Manon , which Henri-Georges Clouzot directed in 1949. She then got a contract with 20th Century Fox , but only appeared in a few films. In The Black Rose , she starred alongside Tyrone Power and Orson Welles in their only Hollywood film. In Bluebeard , she played the last woman in the title character, played by Hans Albers . Pierre Brasseur was her partner in the French version of this German-French-Swiss co-production, which was filmed once with German and once with French actors . Afterwards she only appeared in a few European films, including Dance in the Sun by Géza von Cziffra with a. a. Hans Olden and Rudolf Platte . Neither of these films was successful. In 1960 she retired from the film business.

She made a second, successful international career in the 1960s as an author of children's books. She made some of these books as a director and screenwriter for television. The children's book series about the pony “Silberschweif” (in the French original “Poly”) and the two boys Pascal and Vincent as the title heroes were published in Germany by Franz Schneider Verlag and were also broadcast as a series on German television. The book and television series Belle and Sebastian about a boy and his bitch, after whom the British indie pop band Belle and Sebastian was named, also became popular. The book served as a template for a Japanese anime in 1981 .

Cécile Aubry was married to the son of the Pasha of Marrakech Tihami al-Glawi from 1955 to 1959 and lived temporarily in Morocco , the marriage had a son. After the divorce, she moved back to France. Her son Mehdi El Glaoui , who played “Sebastian” as a child and “Pascal” in Poly , works as an actor and director. He played a supporting role in the | remake of Belle and Sebastian as a feature film from 2013.

She last lived in a converted historic mill in the countryside near Paris and died of cancer.

Filmography

As an actress

As a director and screenwriter (selection)

  • 1961–1973: Poly (TV series)
  • 1965–1970: Belle and Sebastian ( Belle et Sébastian , TV series)
  • 1973: Le jeune Fabre (TV series)

Literary works (selection in German translation)

  • 1967: Who will save Silberschweif?
  • 1968: Belle and Sebastian
  • 1968: Silberschweif and his friends
  • 1969: Silver Tail and the Secret of the Seven Stars
  • 1969: Belle and Sebastian find a new home
  • 1973: Sebastian and the wild horse

Film adaptations

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Aubry, Cecile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bénard, Anne-José (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actress, children's book author and television director
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 2010
Place of death Dourdan