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Yvonne Monlaur Profile
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| (Yvonne Bèdat de Monlaur) |
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| 15 December 35 | is born in Pau, France. Her father's a White Russian count; her mother's a ballet dancer |
| goes to the ballet |
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| Late 50s | works as a model for magazines like Elle |
| director Andre Hunelle discovers her for his Mannequins de Paris |
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| director Franco Rossi calls her to Rome for a Italian-Spanish co-production |
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| 58 | is spottet by British producer Anthony Hinds in Avventura a Capri and asked to England where she does a TV programme |
| 59 | a Paris magazine votes her the year's sexiest screen newcomer |
| gives her statistics as 89-56-89 cm |
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| an Italian newspaper calls her the year's most promising actress |
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| September 59 | is featured in Male with a four-page pictorial |
| June 59 | is on the cover of the Italian Tempo magazine |
| ? | suffers bad facial burns in a speedboat accident while filming Avventure a Capri in Italy, resulting in months of reconvalescence at a hospital |
| 60 | her mother accompanies her to England for three movies |
| 26 January 60 | is her first day before the camera at Bray Studios, England, for The Brides of Dracula. The filming will last for the next two months. She has her mother with her as a chaperone who is very ambitious for her which is a bit annoying to cast and crew. Both are hoping to make it big in the movies. She will later have only good memories of the experience. |
| is very quiet but very friendly on the set of The Brides of Dracula |
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| 18 April 60 | shooting of The Terror of the Tongs starts at Bray Studios, England |
| 6/7 July 60 | attends the premiere of The Brides of Dracula at London's Marble Arch Odeon. She arrives in a horse-drawn carriage, the same one used in the movie. |
| 60s | does a lot of Italian and German movies and TV |
| ? | her son, Alexis, is born |
| 70 | feels the need to return to France for personal reasons and eventually retires from the movies |
| 90s | lives in Paris |
| 29 May 99 | attends Bray Studio Days, a Hammer reunion party, held at Bray |
| 29 - 30 July 00 | attends the Classic FilmFest at the Hyatt Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, along with Betsy Jones Moreland, Linda Harrison, Veronica Carlson and Margaret O'Brien, amongst others |
| 18 April 17 | dies at age 81 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris |
| Sources: Andre Melly and Harry Oakes in Little Shoppe of Horrors, Filles de l'enfer website, Hammer Glamour website, Classic Images, The House that Hammer Built | |
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| Links: Filmography Filles de l'enfer-Yvonne Monlaur | |