Claire Du Brey

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Claire Du Brey (1920)

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)

Web links

Commons : Claire Du Brey  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claire Du Brey at Google Books
personal data
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