Corinne Luchaire
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| Born |
Rosita Christiane Yvette Luchaire 11 February 1921 Paris, France |
| Died | 22 January 1950 (aged 28) Paris, France |
| Years active | 1935–1940 |
| Spouse(s) | Guy de Voisins-Lavernière |
Corinne Luchaire (11 February 1921 – 22 January 1950) was a French film actress who was a star of French cinema on the eve of World War II. Her association with the German occupation led her to be sentenced to "national indignity" after the war, and after writing an autobiography, she died from tuberculosis aged only 28.
Luchaire left school to join the drama class of Raymond Rouleau and made her acting debut under the name Rose Davel at the age of 16 in a play written by her grandfather, Altitude 3 200. The following year she starred in Prison sans barreaux, which in 1938 was remade in English in London as Prison Without Bars, with her again in the lead role. She spoke English fluently.Mary Pickford called her "the new Garbo." She starred in 1939 in Le Dernier Tournant (The Last Bend), the first version of the novel The Postman Always Rings Twice.
Born Rosita Christiane Yvette Luchaire in Paris, she was the daughter of journalist and politician Jean Luchaire, who supported the 1940 French Government's Révolution nationale. Her paternal grandfather was a playwright and her maternal grandfather Armand Besnard was a painter. Her sister was also an actress. Her mother, also a painter, became Gustav Stresemann's mistress, and they moved to Germany with Corinne.
Corinne charmed Stresemann's friend , who let her live in his mansion. Corinne grew up around the Nazis who frequented the banker Schröder at his home. There, she met the future German ambassador to Paris, Otto Abetz, who married her father's secretary, Suzanne, who until 1939 had been his mistress. She accompanied her father to Vichy Paris in August 1940. Corinne was briefly married to a French aristocrat, Guy de Voisins-Lavernière.
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