Claire Du Brey
Claire Du Brey (born August 31, 1892 in Bonners Ferry , Idaho as Clara Violet Dubreyvich , † August 1, 1993 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actress .
life and career
Born in Idaho , Claire Du Bree's family moved through the Sierra Madre to California in a covered wagon when she was 13 years old. She actually trained to be a nurse, but then she read a job offer as a “part-time actress” for silent films in the newspaper. Du Brey made her film debut in 1916 with Billie Burke in Peggy . Within a short period of time, the brunette actress took on leading roles, mostly in westerns. The athletic actress took on many of her stunts herself. She acted as the leading lady to actors such as Harry Carey senior , Herbert Rawlinson , Dustin Farnum and Lon Chaney senior . Du Brey embodied both high-ranking and elegant personalities such as countesses and simple servants or young girls from the Wild West. In addition to her film work, she was also regularly seen on the stages around Los Angeles .
Due to their increasing age and the dawn of the sound film era , Du Bree's roles became increasingly smaller in the late 1920s. For the remainder of her film career, she was busy, but mostly embodied roles that were not very substantial; but above all as a saleswoman, nurse, housekeeper or secretary. Only in isolated cases in smaller films did Du Brey get the chance to play larger parts. From the 1950s she was also seen on television. After more than 240 film and television appearances, Du Brey retired from the acting business in 1960. She died in Los Angeles in 1993 at the age of 100.
Claire Du Brey was close friends with the actor Richard Cromwell as well as the popular character actress Marie Dressler , whom she nursed in addition to her film work when she died from cancer in 1934. More recent biographies about Dressler assume a long-term, secret lesbian relationship between the two actresses. Claire Du Brey was also with a doctor named Dr. Mark Gordon married, this marriage ended in divorce.
Filmography (selection)
- 1916: Peggy
- 1917: The Piper's Price
- 1917: The Drifter
- 1917: Pay Me!
- 1917: Hair-Trigger Burke
- 1917: triumph
- 1918: Social Briars
- 1919: The Devil's Trail
- 1919: What Every Woman Wants
- 1921: That Girl Montana
- 1921: The Hole in the Wall
- 1924: The Sea Hawk
- 1926: Miss Nobody
- 1927: The Devil Dancer
- 1929: Two Sisters
- 1930: For the Love o 'Lil
- 1932: Arsene Lupine, the king of thieves (Arsene Lupine)
- 1933: Between Today and Tomorrow (Gabriel Over the White House)
- 1933: Night Flight (Night Flight)
- 1934: cry of the harried (Viva Villa!)
- 1936: Ramona
- 1936: small town girl (Small Town Girl)
- 1936: The Devil Doll
- 1937: Topper - The blonde ghost (Topper)
- 1937: Nothing Sacred (Nothing Sacred)
- 1938: Marie-Antoinette
- 1938: Little Miss Broadway
- 1939: Jesse James, Man Without a Law (Jesse James)
- 1939: Juarez
- 1939: The love and life of the telephone maker A. Bell (The Story of Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1940: Rendezvous after closing time (The Shop Around the Corner)
- 1940: Wedding against Will (The Doctor Takes a Wife)
- 1940: Andy Hardy meets debutante
- 1940: Gold smuggling to Virginia (Virginia City)
- 1940: Trek to Utah (Brigham Young - Frontiersman)
- 1940: Charlie Chan on a cruise (Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise)
- 1940: Hell, where is your victory? (All this and Heaven, too)
- 1940: The Blue Bird
- 1941: Blossoms in the Dust (Blossoms in the Dust)
- 1943: Heaven Can Wait (Heaven Can Wait)
- 1942: Journey from the Past (Now, Voyager)
- 1944: Such a Papa (Casanova Brown)
- 1944 dragon's (Dragon Seed)
- 1945: Star in the Night
- 1945: Blood on the Fargo River (Dakota)
- 1947: Every Woman Needs an Angel (The Bishop's Wife)
- 1946: The Best Years of Our Lives (The Best Years of Our Lives)
- 1946: In the Secret Service (Cloak and Dagger)
- 1947: The Unconquered
- 1947: Ivy
- 1948: Every Girl Should Be Married
- 1948: Love nights in Seville (The Loves of Carmen)
- 1949: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein)
- 1949: Samson and Delilah (Samson and Delilah)
- 1950: Cinderella's voice
- 1951: Double Dynamite
- 1951: Reporter of Satan (Ace in the Hole)
- 1952: Jack and the Beanstalk
- 1953: King of the Pirates (Raiders of the Seven Seas)
- 1954: The Strangler of Paris (Phantom of the Rue Morgue)
- 1956: Vincent van Gogh - A life in passion (Lust for Life)
- 1957: The Girls (Les Girls)
- 1959: Blonde curls - sharp claws (Girls Town)
- 1959: The Madonna with the Two Faces (The Miracle)
Web links
- Claire Du Brey in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Claire Du Brey in the database of Find a Grave (English)
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | You Brey, Claire |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dubreyvich, Clara Violet (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1892 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonners Ferry , Idaho , United States |
DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 1993 |
Place of death | Los Angeles , California , United States |