From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Adrienne DAmbricourt 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 Swansons 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 DAmbricourt was used in several films which were the French version of English language ones such as Quand on est belle The Easiest Way 1931 Lénigmatique Mr Parkes Slightly Scarlet 1930 and Nuit dEspagne 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 Cukors 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
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