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Adrienne D’Ambricourt (born Adrienne DuNontier; 2 June 1878 – 6 December 1957) was a French actress of the silent and sound film eras. She was born in Paris, and emigrated to the United States after the end of World War I.
She began acting in the 1922 Gershwin Broadway musical comedy, The French Doll, in which she had one of the main roles, “Baroness Mazulier”. She made her film debut in the 1924 silent film, The Humming Bird, where she was one of Gloria Swanson’s gang of thieves who turned into resistance fighters in World War I.
With the advent of talking pictures, and before dubbing came into general use, D’Ambricourt was used in several films which were the French version of English language ones, such as Quand on est belle (The Easiest Way — 1931), L’énigmatique Mr. Parkes (Slightly Scarlet — 1930), and Nuit d’Espagne (Transgression — 1931).
She appeared in over 70 films, including such classics as Casablanca, San Francisco, and To Have And Have Not, until about 1947, after which her film career began to decline. Her final role was in George Cukor’s Les Girls, starring Gene Kelly and Mitzi Gaynor, in which she played the wardrobe woman. With the advent of television, she appeared in several series during the 1950s, working right up to her death, which was caused by a heart attack during or following a car accident in Los Angeles.
Adrienne D’Ambricourt Biography / Wiki
| Name | Adrienne D’Ambricourt |
| Also Know | Adrienne d’Ambricourt , Adrienne DuNontier |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Date of Birth | 1878-06-02 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 79 |
| Deathday | 1957-12-06 |
Adrienne D’Ambricourt Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Bad One | Madame Pompier | 1930-05-03 | In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sa… |
| God Gave Me Twenty Cents | Ma Tapman | 1926-11-20 | The story concerns the misadventures of sailor Steve Doren, who tries his best to support his wife Mary on his piddling income. But like seafaring men… |
| Men in Her Life | Maria | 1931-12-10 | A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds out she’s… |
| Footlights and Fools | Jo | 1929-12-08 | Moore plays the “dual” role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona…. |
| The Humming Bird | The Owl | 1924-01-13 | A pickpocket falls in love with a newspaperman. When he is sent off to war and she disguises herself as a boy, joins a gang and sets out to save him…. |
| Wages of Virtue | Madame Cantinière | 1924-11-10 | A carnival strongman and his girlfriend flee to Algiers to escape a murder charge but there they are caught again in a web of jealousy, deceit and mur… |
| Le procès de Mary Dugan | The chambermaid | 1931-11-06 | … |
| The Trial Of Mary Dugan | Marie Ducrot | 1929-06-08 | A woman is tried for the murder of her lover. Director Bayard Veiller’s 1929 courtroom drama stars Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, Lilyan Tashman and H. B… |
| Disgraced! | Madame Maxime | 1933-07-07 | A lovely fashion model’s dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets… |
| War Mamas | Countess’s Maid (uncredited) | 1931-11-14 | During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers…. |
| This Modern Age | Marie | 1931-08-29 | A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love…. |
| Transgression | Julie | 1931-06-27 | When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy…. |
| Gallant Lady | Nanette – Deedy’s Nurse (uncredited) | 1933-12-07 | Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies…. |
| The Song of Songs | French Teacher | 1933-07-19 | After her father dies, Lily moves to the city to live with her strict aunt. During the day Lily works in her aunt’s bookstore, and at night she sneaks… |
| What a Widow! | Paulette | 1930-09-12 | A young woman’s elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes part of the “Continental” set and is pursued by a ric… |
| Scotland Yard | Madame Rousseau, Innkeeper | 1930-10-19 | A soldier is wounded in action. His face is restored by a plastic surgeon to resemble someone else…. |
| The Cat and the Fiddle | Concierge | 1934-02-16 | A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer…. |
| Our Modern Maidens | Parisian Housekeeper Annette (uncredited) | 1929-09-08 | Young vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancée Gil a diplomatic appointment. M… |
| Beautiful Love | The deaf old lady | 1951-06-01 | Dr. Claude Moulin leaves his wife and child for a younger woman but the child needs attention and the wife falls very ill…. |
| History Is Made at Night | French Woman (uncredited) | 1937-03-05 | A romantic headwaiter fights to save a woman from her possessive ex-husband…. |
| Artists and Models Abroad | Madame Brissard | 1938-12-20 | Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the ‘Hotel de Navarre’ in furnishing accommodations… |
| Bal Tabarin | Madame Ramquet | 1952-05-31 | … |
| The Secret of Madame Blanche | Marie (Uncredited) | 1933-02-03 | A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat…. |
| Svengali | Mme. Vinard (uncredited) | 1931-05-22 | A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife…. |
| Mama Steps Out | Jeanne | 1937-02-05 | A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture…. |
| Bulldog Drummond’s Bride | Therese | 1939-07-12 | Hugh “Bulldog†Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis — but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their… |
| The Eagle and the Hawk | Fifi ‘Fanny’ | 1933-05-06 | The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enem… |
| Marie Galante | French Girl | 1934-10-25 | On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt l… |
| Paris Underground | Margot | 1945-10-18 | Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an Engl… |
| Pack Up Your Troubles | Mme. Marchand | 1939-10-24 | Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines…. |
| I Met My Love Again | Marie | 1938-01-14 | In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows… |
| City in Darkness | Hotel Proprietress | 1939-11-15 | Chan goes to Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I. There he investigates the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to… |
| Dangerously Yours | Masseuse | 1937-09-21 | A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one… |
| Design for Living | Cafe Proprietress (uncredited) | 1933-12-29 | An independent woman can’t choose between the two men she loves…. |
| What Price Hollywood? | French Cook (uncredited) | 1932-06-24 | Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaura… |
| We Have Our Moments | Maid | 1937-03-28 | A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down the… |
| Valiant Is the Word for Carrie | Madame Odette Dessolles | 1936-10-06 | Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, … |
| Scandal Sheet | Flint’s French Maid | 1931-01-31 | Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife…. |
| To Have and Have Not | Cashier (uncredited) | 1945-01-20 | A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII…. |
| Nurse Edith Cavell | Undetermined Role | 1939-08-31 | British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-… |
| Seventh Heaven | Nurse | 1937-03-25 | A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the sev… |
| San Francisco | Madame Albani (uncredited) | 1936-06-26 | A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the big earthquake…. |
| Two Girls on Broadway | Miss Apricots (uncredited) | 1940-04-19 | Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney w… |
| Live, Love and Learn | The Dutchess (uncredited) | 1937-10-29 | A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his stra… |
| Forty Little Mothers | Miss Porter | 1940-04-26 | An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl’s school. But events conspire against him: he finds an a… |
| Calcutta | Croupier’s Assistant (uncredited) | 1946-12-20 | Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill’s fiancée Virginia and… |
| The White Cliffs of Dover | Madam at Dieppe Hotel (uncredited) | 1944-05-11 | Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind rom… |
| Experiment Perilous | French Instructor (uncredited) | 1944-12-18 | In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his l… |
| The Purple Mask | Madame Anais (uncredited) | 1955-06-15 | France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’, the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distre… |
| Casablanca | Concierge (uncredited) | 1942-11-26 | In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications…. |
| I’ll Give a Million | Wife (uncredited) | 1938-07-27 | After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is k… |
| The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle | French Landlady (uncredited) | 1939-03-29 | In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt… |
Credit: TMDB
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