Gaby Sylvia

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Gaby Sylvia (born March 24, 1920 in Cesena , † July 26, 1980 in Chamalières ), actually Gabrielle Zignani , was a French actress of Italian origin.

Life

The daughter of Italian parents comes to France at the age of three. She started her career in the theater and was then hired by Raymond Rouleau . In the following years she often worked under his theater direction. Other theater directors she works with include Raymond Gérôme and Antoine Bourseiller. She began at the age of 18 with the lead role of the distressed orphan Denise in Le Ruisseau by Maurice Lehmann and Claude Autant-Lara . She remains true to the romantic image, also as Danielle Noblet in Christian-Jaques The First Ball (1941). In the lead roles as the charming dancer Micheline alongside François Périer in Bonsoir mesdames, bonsoir messieurs (1944) and she is subscribed to the entertainment film. In addition to Pierre Brasseur in the title role of Jean Boyer's la femme fatale , she expanded her spectrum in 1947. In 1954 she is the Estelle in Jacqueline Audry's starting film Closed Society . After Das Weib und der Verdammte (1958) she shot for television for the first time: in the TV adaptation of The Three Musketeers , she is the unscrupulous Milady de Winter at the side of the young Jean-Paul Belmondo as D'Artagnan. After André Hunebelles Comedy caution, ladies! (1972) she shoots for ten years exclusively for television: in an episode of the Graf Yoster series and as Anne-Marie de Mettray in the family saga Mauregard (1970). She did not return to the cinema until 1972 with Beau Masque and in 1977 she was Claude Brasseur's boss Marie-Christine Bosquet in Yves Roberts We All Go to Heaven . She had her last film role in 1979 with its discoverer Raymond Rouleau in Le destin de Priscilla Davies after Henry James ' In the Cave .

In addition to her film work, she mainly devoted herself to the theater and especially played in plays that were broadcast in the program Au Théâtre ce Soir by Pierre Sabbagh.

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SURNAME Sylvia, Gaby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zignani, Gabrielle (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Italian actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Cesena
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1980
Place of death Chamalières