Yvonne Monlaur

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Yvonne Monlaur , bourgeois Comtesse (Countess) Yvonne Thérèse Marie Camille Bedat de Monlaur (born  December 15, 1935 in Pau , France , † April 18, 2017 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ), was an inactive French actress since 1967 with leading roles in European Filming the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Live and act

Born in the foothills of the Pyrenees, the daughter of an exiled Russian count and a French ballet dancer followed in her mother's footsteps as a young girl and began performing as a dancer in the early post-war period. In August 1955, 19-year-old Yvonne Monlaur made her debut with a tiny role in front of the film camera. Her slightly exotic-looking beauty soon made Italian film producers aware of Monlaur, but it was only when she moved to Great Britain, where she made her English-language film debut in the comedy Inn for Trouble in 1959 , that her career took off. Yvonne Monlaur made a name for herself in 1960 with her appearances in two British horror films ( The Red Shadow , Dracula and His Brides ) and, after the Dracula film, another great film production, Terror of the Tongs (1961). A little later she returned to France and twice became a film partner of Eddie Constantine .

In 1965 Monlaur was up for discussion when the role of Domino in the James Bond film Thunderbolt , which eventually went to Claudine Auger, should be cast. A little later, Yvonne Monlaur ended her short-lived film career with appearances in two German crime novels, the Jerry Cotton flick The Bill - served ice cold and the first of the (then so-called) ZDF super thrillers, Death runs afterwards alongside Joachim Fuchsberger . In this farewell performance in 1967, she returned to her roots and in the first part embodied a dancer who was found dead by Fuchsberger. Then Yvonne Monlaur withdrew into private life.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1955: Thirteen at one table (Treize à table)
  • 1956: Love, Women and Paris (Mannequins de Paris)
  • 1956: Honoré de Marseille
  • 1957: Young roses in the wind (Les Collégiennes)
  • 1957: The beautiful Portuguese woman (Les Lavandières du Portugal)
  • 1958: Amore a prima vista
  • 1958: Three foreign women in Rome (3 straniere a Roma)
  • 1958: Anche l'inferno Trema
  • 1959: Avventura a Capri
  • 1959: Destinazione Sanremo
  • 1959: This treasure from papa (Quel tesoro di papà)
  • 1959: It Started in Naples (It Started in Naples)
  • 1960: The Red Shadow (Circus of Horrors)
  • 1960: Dracula and his brides (The Brides of Dracula)
  • 1960: Terror of the Tongs ( The Terror of the Tongs )
  • 1962: Diamonds of Death (Time to Remember)
  • 1962: This is not for little girls (Lemmy pour les dames)
  • 1962: The great dogs of the Caribbean Sea (Lo sparviero dei Caraibi)
  • 1963: Everything because of these women (À cause, à cause d'une femme)
  • 1963: Le concerto de la peur
  • 1964: Bayard (TV series)
  • 1964: Nick Carter beats it all together (Nick Carter va tout casser)
  • 1964: The sky is on fire (Le Ciel sur la tête)
  • 1965: You are about to sing, Birdie (Mission spéciale à Caracas)
  • 1966: The bill - served ice cold
  • 1967: Death Chases After (three-part television thriller)

Web links

Commons : Yvonne Monlaur  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The year of birth 1939, which can usually be read, is wrong. See excerpt from the Pau birth register, no. 772/1935.
  2. ↑ Jean-Luc Gage: In Memoriam. In: yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.de. April 19, 2017, accessed April 22, 2017 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Monlaur, Yvonne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bedat de Monlaur, Comtesse Yvonne Thérèse Marie Camille (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Pau , Pyrénées-Atlantiques department , France
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 2017
Place of death Neuilly-sur-Seine