Yvette Lebon (14 August 1910 – 28 July 2014) was a French actress.
Biography
Lebon studied music and art before going into acting. During
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
, she was the mistress of
Jean Luchaire, a French journalist and press baron executed after the war for collaboration with France's German occupiers. She married
American producer Nat Wachsberger and later moved to the United States with him. She lived there until his death in 1992. The couple had one son, Patrick, who became a film producer.
Her first husband was
Roger Duchesne
Roger Duchesne (27 July 1906, Luxeuil-les-Bains, Haute-Saône – 25 December 1996) was a French film actor. He appeared in 30 films between 1934 and 1957, but is best remembered for playing the lead in '' Bob le flambeur'' (1956). He was t ...
, a French actor who was sanctioned after the war for collaborating with the German occupiers. They acted together in the film ''
Gibraltar'' (1938).
Her relationship with collaborator-press baron Luchaire "attracted the most opprobrium." Indeed, in a 2010 television documentary, according to one account, she admitted "I don't
nowhow much theatre and film people knew about what was really going on. We felt privileged. There was always champagne. We didn't have ration books. We lacked for nothing."
She also had a relationship with
Sacha Guitry
Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (; 21 February 188524 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry, and follo ...
,
a prominent French dramatist-actor-director-playwright. He was charged with colluding with the German enemy but separate courts in 1945 and 1947 dropped his case, stirring controversy among the French public.
Centenarian
Lebon turned 103 in August 2013, and was France's oldest surviving actress until her death.
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Partial filmography
* ''Rive gauche'' (1931)
* ''He Is Charming
''He Is Charming'' (French: ''Il est charmant'') is a 1932 French musical comedy film directed by Louis Mercanton and starring Meg Lemonnier, Henri Garat and Louis Baron fils.Waldman p.43 It was one of a large number of operetta films made during ...
'' (1932)
* '' Zouzou'' (1934), as Clare Valley
* ''Divine
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'' (1935)
* '' Marinella'' (1936)
* '' Michel Strogoff'' (1936)
* '' The Marriages of Mademoiselle Levy'' (1936)
* '' Abused Confidence'' (1938), as Alice
* '' Gibraltar'' (1938), as Maud Wilco
* ''Romance of Paris
''Romance of Paris'' (French: ''Romance de Paris'') is a 1941 French musical film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Charles Trenet, Jean Tissier and Yvette Lebon.Burch & Sellier p.135 The film was shot at the Francoeur Studios in Paris. It ...
'' (1941)
* ''Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary'' (1942), as Julie Clary
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* '' Pamela'' (1945)
* '' Milady and the Musketeers'' (1952), as Milady Anne
* ''The Mysteries of Paris
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'' (1957)
*''The Night They Killed Rasputin
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'' (1960)
* '' Agent X-77 Orders to Kill'' (1966)
* '' The Viscount'' (1967)
* '' All Mad About Him'' (1967)
* ''Cannabis
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'' (1970), as Emerys Mätresse
References
External links
*
Yvette Lebon
at Find a Grave
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1910 births
2014 deaths
Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
French film actresses
French centenarians
Actresses from Paris
Women centenarians
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