Yvonne Pavis (12 May 1890-??) was an English-born actress, writer, and producer.
She began acting in Hollywood in 1910 with the
Vitagraph Company
Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States film studio, motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith (producer), Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as t ...
, occasionally acting under the name Marie Pavis. In 1922, she went to Australia and formed a production company with
Lawson Harris. After a brief time as ''The Yvonne Pavis Production Company'', the company changed its name to ''Harris Austral Super Films'' and produced three features.
[Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 111-112.] She returned to the United States in 1924. She and Harris married, but divorced in 1925.
In 1921, Pavis was granted a divorce from John William Murray, who had wed two women while still married to her.
Partial filmography
* ''
The Trail of the Octopus'' (1919)
* ''
Tony America'' (1918)
* ''
The Walk-Offs'' (1920)
* ''
An Arabian Knight'' (1920)
* ''
Silk Hosiery
''Silk Hosiery'' is a 1920 American silent comedy film directed by Fred Niblo and starring Enid Bennett. A print listed as being in nitrate exists in the Library of Congress and another in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Plot
As summari ...
'' (1920)
* ''
The First Born'' (1921)
* ''
Circumstance'' (1922) - actor, writer, producer
* ''
A Daughter of Australia'' (1922) - actor, producer
* ''
Sunshine Sally'' (1922) - actor, producer.
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1890 births
20th-century American actresses
American film producers
20th-century American screenwriters
American silent film actresses
American women film producers
British emigrants to the United States
Year of death missing
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