Junie Astor

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Junie Astor , born Rolande Jeanne Risterucci (born December 21, 1911 in Marseille , † August 22, 1967 in Sainte-Magnance ), was a French actress .

Life

Born Rolande Risterucci, she started her artistic career on stage at the beginning of the 1930s. A little later she was brought in front of the camera as Junie Astor. Over the course of the following decade, the artist played numerous leading roles in French prewar films. Again and again they were allowed to embody shady characters, characters who got on the wrong path, sometimes dark, depraved and sometimes perverted characters. Junie Astor was also cast several times as a 'man-murdering' spy (albeit with a heart of gold). For her interpretation of Hélène in "Club de femmes", a melodrama about a refuge for physically and morally endangered girls and young women, Junie Astor received the Prix ​​Suzanne Bianchetti in 1937, which was awarded for the first time that yearas the best young actress. Almost at the same time, she and Natascha, who was in love with Jean Gabin, played an unusual role for her, full of delicacy and purity, in the highly acclaimed film adaptation of Gorky's Night Asylum.

The outbreak of World War II significantly hampered Astor's film career. During the years of the cast, she rarely appeared in front of the camera. In 1943 she took over the part of one of the two Nathalies in Jean Delannoy's dark but artsy variation of the Tristan and Isolde myth " The Eternal Bann " . Since the early 1950s, Junie Astor found little employment in film. Thereupon she opened her own cinema with the 'Astor' in Paris and also took over the management of the Rio-Opéra.

Junie Astor died as a result of a car accident. She and her husband Johnny Simone had an accident in a Maserati Mistral . Shortly before, she had appeared again with a tiny role in a movie (" Joe Caligula "), which was not premiered until two years after her death.

Filmography

  • 1933: D'amour et d'eau fraîche
  • 1933: Ademaï aviateur
  • 1934: Étienne
  • 1935: Joli monde
  • 1935: Tovaritch
  • 1935: Stradivarius
  • 1936: Mayerling ( Mayerling )
  • 1936: Au service du tsar
  • 1936: La garçonne
  • 1936: Night asylum ( Les bas-fonds )
  • 1936: Club de femmes
  • 1937: Passeurs d'hommes
  • 1937: Police mondaine
  • 1938: Petite peste
  • 1938: Noix de coco
  • 1938: Adrienne Lecouvreur
  • 1939: Latin Quarter
  • 1939: Thieves and Love ( Battement de cœur )
  • 1939: Entente Cordiale
  • 1941: Fromont jeune et Risler ainé
  • 1941: Patrouille blanche
  • 1943: The Eternal Ban ( L'éternel retour )
  • 1945: L'invité de la onzième heure
  • 1946: L'homme de la nuit
  • 1946: Triple enquête
  • 1947: Alarm in San Juano ( Cargaison clandestine )
  • 1947: SOS - 11 a.m. ( La dame d'onze heures )
  • 1948: Knight of his King ( Du Guesclin )
  • 1948: Piège à hommes
  • 1949: La souricière
  • 1949: Un certain monsieur
  • 1950: La belle image
  • 1950: Coupable?
  • 1951: Rhythm of the Night ( Boîte de nuit )
  • 1954: Mary Lou and her masters ( Escalier de service )
  • 1956: Les Truands
  • 1957: Paris taboo ( Mademoiselle strip-tease )
  • 1957: No rose without thorns ( La peau de l'ours )
  • 1957: The coffin came in the mail ( Les violents )
  • 1957: Isabell is afraid of men ( Isabelle a peur des hommes )
  • 1959: Business
  • 1959: Interpol versus X ( Interpol versus X )
  • 1961: Cadavres en vacances
  • 1965: L'homme de l'Interpol
  • 1966: Joe Caligula (WP: 1969)

literature

  • Jean Loup Passek: Dictionnaire du Cinéma, 2nd edition, Paris 1992, p. 34

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personal data
SURNAME Astor, Junie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Risterucci, Rolande Jeanne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille , France
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 1967
Place of death Sainte-Magnance , France