"ensure that the child's biological father did not get custody. During the court hearings, the actress told her former mother-in-law and her husband's widow that ""if she got to the witness stand she would give a complete account of her life with Plant. The matter was settled out of court."" In 1931, Bennett made headlines when she married one of Gloria Swanson's former husbands, Henri le Bailly, the Marquis de La Coudraye de La Falaise, a French nobleman and film director. She and de la Falaise founded Bennett Pictures Corp. and co-produced two films which were the last filmed in"
"Henry de La Falaise Henry de La Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye (born James Henry Le Bailly de La Falaise, February 11, 1898 – April 10, 1972), was a French nobleman, translator, film director, film producer, sometime actor, and war hero who was best known for his high-profile marriages to two leading Hollywood actresses. James Henry de La Falaise was born on February 11, 1898 in (Saint-Cyr-l'École, France, the eldest son and second child of Louis Gabriel Venant Le Bailly de La Falaise, Ecuyer (1866–1910), a three time Olympics gold-medallist in fencing and former Army officer. His mother was the"
"Luck"", a 1927 work that bore the name of Robert Bailly. He also served as the U.S. representative for Pathé, the French film studio. La Falaise also produced and directed three films for RKO, which were filmed in French and English versions: ""Echec Au Roi (The Royal Bed)"" (an adaptation of Robert E. Sherwood's play ""The Queen's Husband""); ""Le fils d'autre (The Woman Between)"", and ""Nuit d'Espagne (Transgression)"". La Falaise was married three times, but did not have any children. His wives were: (France) Henry de La Falaise Henry de La Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye (born James Henry Le"
"former Henriette Frédérique Hennessy (1873–1965), scion of the Cognac family. After his father died in 1910, his widowed mother married her second husband, Count Antoine Hocquart de Turtot (1872—1954), a cavalry officer and major French horse-racing figure, in 1912. His mother and father had four children together: His mother had another child with her second husband, de La Falaise's half-sibling The title held by the head of the family, Marquis de La Coudraye, dating from 1707, was granted, by an 1876 act of succession, to the younger son of Pacôme-François Le Bailly, Seigneur de La Falaise, and his wife, Pauline-Louise-Victoire"
"became the second wife of Count Alain Le Bailly de La Falaise, (1905—1977). They divorced in 1950, following a series of her infidelities, including an affair with British ambassador Duff Cooper. They had two children: Maxime de La Falaise married, as her second husband, John McKendry, curator of prints and photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who died in 1975. During the marriage it has been suggested that he had an affair with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, while she had one with J. Paul Getty III, artist Max Ernst, and film director Louis Malle.) La Falaise is said to have"
"men including Cecil B. DeMille, Rudolph Valentino and Marshall Neilan. During their divorce Swanson wanted another child, and in 1923 she adopted a baby boy, Sonny Smith (1922–1975), whom she renamed Joseph Patrick Swanson. Swanson's third husband was the French aristocrat Henri, Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, whom she married on January 28, 1925, after the Somborn divorce was finalized. Though Henri was a Marquis and the grandson of Richard and Martha Lucy Hennessy from the famous Hennessy Cognac family, he was not rich and had to work for a living. He was originally hired to be her"
"After the death of her uncle in 1972, her father became the Marquis de La Coudraye, as he died without issue. After her father's death in 1977, her brother assumed the title, Marquis de La Coudraye (until his death in 2004). Her niece, Lucie Le Bailly de La Falaise (born 19 February 1973), a model, is the wife of Marlon Richards, son of Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg. Her nephew, Daniel Le Bailly de La Falaise (born 6 September 1970), is a professional chef and food writer and the current Marquis de La Coudraye. The family's actual surname is ""Le"
"de Loynes, daughter of the Marquis de La Coudraye. La Falaise inherited the title of Marquis de La Coudraye from his paternal grandfather, Gabriel-César-Henri Le Bailly de La Falaise, who, like his father, died in 1910 (the father died on April 4, the grandfather on August 6). Since La Falaise had no children, the title of Marquis de La Coudraye was inherited by his younger brother, Alain de La Falaise (died 1977). It then passed to his nephew, Alexis de La Falaise (died 2004). It is now held by his grand-nephew (grandson of Alain), Daniel de La Falaise, a professional"
"La Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye"". The Marquis de La Coudraye was awarded the Croix de Guerre for heroism during World War I, during which time he was attached to the 70th Division of the American Expeditionary Forces. He received Croix de Guerre for bravery during World War II, while he was attached to the British 12th Royal Lancers. In 1943, La Falaise published ""Through Hell to Dunkirk"" (Military Service Publishing Company), a memoir of his war experiences. Notably handsome and universally known as ""Hank,"" the marquis was admiringly described by the actress Lillian Gish as ""a real war hero."
"screenplay for the 1933 film ""The Power and the Glory"" was loosely based on her stories about her grandfather C. W. Post. On April 5, 1933, she married for the second time to Etienne Marié Robert Gautier (1907–1993) in the Chapel of Église Saint-Philippe-du-Roule in Paris. Gautier was a well-known polo player and was the nephew of the then mayor of Compiègne. Their marriage lasted only a few months. On June 4, 1934, she married her third husband, George Curtis Rand (1909–1986), son of Kobbé Rand and the grandson of George C. Kobbé, a lawyer with Roosevelt & Kobbé. Their"
"the time, no prints are known to exist, and it is considered to be a lost film. During the production of ""Madame Sans-Gêne,"" Swanson met her third husband Henri, Marquis de la Falaise, who had been hired to be her translator during the film's production. After a four-month residency in France she returned to the United States as European nobility, now known as the Marquise. She got a huge welcome home with parades in both New York and Los Angeles. Swanson appeared in a 1925 short produced by Lee DeForest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process. She made a number of"
"de Noailles, Louis Barthou, Marie and Pierre Curie, Marcel Proust, Count de Lisle, J.-H. Rosny the elder, Gabriel Hanotaux, Marcel Prévost, Pierre Loti, Maurice Barrès, Marcelle Tinayre, Sarah Bernhardt, the actress Réjane, Fernand Gregh, abbé Mugnier, the actor Lucien Guitry and his son Sacha Guitry, the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, the painter Munkacsy, Hugo Ogetti, Commandant Rivière, Georg Brandes, Jules Lemaitre, Gugliemo Ferrero, the abbot and astronomer Théophile Moreux, Colette and her first husband Henry Gauthier-Villars (known as Willy), Marcel Schwob, Robert de Flers, Paul de Grunebaum, Charles Rappoport, François Crucy, Michel Corday, Joseph Reinach, Tristan Bernard, the dancer Loïe Fuller,"
"sub lieutenant Émile Strohl (1863-1900) and took his name, quickly giving birth to four children. After the death of her first husband, she married the master glassmaker Richard Burgsthal (pseudonym René Billa), a man almost 20 years her junior, in 1903. She created the short-lived La Grange Theatre in Bièvres, Essonne in 1912 with her second husband and with the financial support of Odilon Redon, Gustave Fayet and other subscribers. It closed at the beginning of World War I. There, she performed lyrical works filled with mysticism and symbolism. She divorced her second husband in 1930, and moved to Provence"
"1960s and 1970s he worked with Claude Chabrol (""The Breach""), Luis Buñuel (as Stéphane Audran's husband in ""The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie"" 1972), Ken Annakin (as Frenchman in ""Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines"" 1965), Gérard Brach (as Claude Jade's lover in ""The Boat on the Grass""), Richard Lester (as Louis XIII of France in ""The Three Musketeers"" 1973 and its sequel ""The Four Musketeers"" 1974), Sidney Lumet (as Pierre in ""Murder on the Orient Express""), Joseph Losey (with Isabelle Huppert in ""The Trout""). He also made a memorable appearance in ""Oh! What a Lovely War"" as a"
"in supporting roles in several Chabrol films before, ""The Third Lover"" was the first Chabrol film in which Stéphane Audran appeared as the female lead. They later married in 1964 and worked together until the late 1970s. In 1962 Chabrol made ""Ophelia"", a loose adaptation of ""Hamlet"" that was another box office disappointment. Later that year he had a minor hit film with ""Landru"", written by Françoise Sagan and starring Charles Denner, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux and Hildegard Knef. The film depicts the famous French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru, a story that had previously inspired Charlie Chaplin's film ""Monsieur"
"Marie-Laure de Noailles Marie-Laure de Noailles, Vicomtesse de Noailles () (31 October 1902 – 29 January 1970) was a French artist, regarded one of the 20th century's most daring and influential patrons of the arts, noted for her associations with Salvador Dalí, Balthus, Jean Cocteau, Ned Rorem, Man Ray, Luis Buñuel, Francis Poulenc, Wolfgang Paalen, Jean Hugo, Jean-Michel Frank and others as well as her tempestuous life and eccentric personality. She and her husband financed Ray's film ""Les Mystères du Château de Dé"" (1929), Poulenc's ""Aubade"" (1929), Buñuel and Dalí's film ""L'Âge d'Or"" (1930), and Cocteau's ""The Blood of a"
"positioned herself for the transition to talkies. She is one of the few leading ladies of the silent screen whose popularity did not nosedive with the coming of sound. She went back to working with the major studios and appeared, most notably, in ""The Unholy Three"", in 1930, opposite Lon Chaney Sr. in his only talkie. However, a series of bad career choices and bouts of recurring tuberculosis and alcoholism hindered further projects and Lee was relegated to taking parts in mostly grade B-movies. Lee was married and divorced three times. Her first husband was actor James Kirkwood, Sr., whom"
"Louise Jacqueline Marie Auffray to Henry Auffray, an industrialist, and Amyelle de Caubios d'Andiran, a musician, second cousin of the French author François Mauriac (respectively by their maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother). Her brother is singer Hugues Aufray. Audret was married twice, first to actor Roger Coggio and later to music producer Francis Dreyfus. It was her second marriage that produced her daughter Julie Dreyfus, an actress who co-starred in Quentin Tarantino's ""Kill Bill"" & ""Inglourious Basterds"". Audret put her career on the back burner after the birth of her daughter Julie in 1966. Audret died in a road accident"
"the end of the silent film era of the 1920s. She did continue acting in bit parts through the sound era and made her final appearance in the 1942 film ""Overland Mail"" opposite both Noah Beery, Sr. and Noah Beery, Jr., as well as Lon Chaney, Jr. De La Motte was married twice. She first wed silent film actor John Bowers in 1924, who was then a matinee idol of the silver screen. The couple were separated at the time when Bowers committed suicide in 1936. De La Motte later married attorney Sidney H. Rivkin whom she later divorced after"
"had four children; twins Alfred Frederick and Honour Loiusa were born 23 August 1900, Honour died aged 12. They had a second daughter, Irene Margarette (died 1974) and a third, Mary, who died in infancy. Margarette died on 18 September 1907 aged about 49. On 13 December 1913, Alfred remarried Jean Isabella Griffin Aitkin, an actress also known by her stage name of Jean Aylwin. They were divorced in 1924; the composer Hubert Bath was named as co-respondent in the case. When Alfred's older brother Henry died on 28 March 1925, he became the 3rd Baronet, but didn't inherit his"
"Husband"" (1895) and William in Maugham's ""Home and Beauty"" (1919). In between his successes he went bankrupt several times, and on one occasion discharged his debts by successfully gambling at baccarat. After the war Hawtrey appeared occasionally in silent films: ""A Message From Mars"" (1913) as Horace Parker, ""Honeymoon for Three"" (1915) as Prince Ferdinand, and ""Masks and Faces"" (1918) with George Alexander, George Bernard Shaw and J. M. Barrie. Hawtrey was generous in fostering talent. Among the young actors whose careers he encouraged was Noël Coward, who wrote in his memoirs about ""the kindness and care of Hawtrey's direction."
"served in the Boer War and was awarded the Queen's Medal. Later he was Aide-de Camp to the Viceroy of India and to Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850–1942). In 1907 at the age of 36 he married Jessie Smither, an actress whose stage name was Denise Orme. Three years later in 1910 after the death of his father, he inherited Lupton House. The 3rd Baron had six children, including Joan Yarde-Buller, who in 1936 in Paris married Prince Aga Khan. In 1926 a major fire damaged Lupton House and resulted in the removal of the third"
"the mother of Philippe Noiret and the stepmother of Catherine Deneuve and the ""Le malin plaisir"" (1975) with Claude Jade and Anny Duperey. Her first lover was Edmond Rostand around 1915, living together for three years. In 1920 she married Maurice Escande, the future director of the house of Molière, ending in divorce in 1921, before meeting , the director of the new Théâtre National Populaire, who was still married but whose wife was barren. In 1922, Marquet gave birth to their son. Before the death of Gémier in 1933, Marquet became the mistress of the president of the then"
"time to Ben Deely, also a dancer, in 1918. Deely, who was over twice her age, was an alcoholic and a gambling addict, which led to the couple's separation in April 1921. Before the divorce from Deely was finalized, La Marr married actor Jack Daugherty in May 1923. Despite separating a year later, they remained legally married until her death. Some years after her death, she was revealed to have given birth to a son, Marvin Carville La Marr, on July 29, 1922. The name of the boy's father has never been publicly released. During her final illness, La Marr"
"of French actors that included Charles Boyer, André Berley and Mona Goya who were brought to Hollywood by MGM to work on films intended for the French market. Reportedly, after her contract expired, Lys received a Hollywood movie offer just as she was about to board an ocean liner to return to Europe. In 1930, Lys returned to Paris to star in Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel's surrealistic film, ""L'Age d'Or"" (1930), considered by many as her most memorable performance. She then returned to America. In 1931 she married Charles Morton, a young silent film actor. The couple divorced some"
"Lannoy. They had 3 children: Philippe III de Croÿ Philippe de Croÿ, 3rd Duke of Aarschot, 4th Prince of Chimay, Count of Porcean (Valenciennes, 10 July 1526Venice, 11 December 1595), was stadtholder of Flanders, and inherited the estates of the ancient and wealthy family of Croÿ. Becoming a soldier, he was made a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece by Philip II, king of Spain, and was afterwards employed in diplomatic work. He was the second son of Philippe II de Croÿ (1496–1549) and Anna de Croÿ (1501–1539).<br> After the death of his elder brother Charles II de"
"Marilyn: The Untold Story Marilyn: The Untold Story is a 1980 television film, about the life of the 1950s sex symbol-movie star, Marilyn Monroe. The feature stars Catherine Hicks as Monroe; Richard Basehart as her early-career agent Johnny Hyde; Frank Converse as her second husband Joe DiMaggio; Jason Miller as her third husband Arthur Miller; Kevin Geer as her first husband James Dougherty; Viveca Lindfors as her acting coach Natasha Lytess; and Sheree North as her mother Gladys Baker. The movie premiered in late-1980, and was greeted with positive reviews. Catherine Hicks was praised by the critics for her portrayal"
"silent films. Married twice, in 1918 to Maurice Bloch, then in 1921 to Charles Legrand, she was for many years the companion of the writer Joseph Kessel. She interrupted her career in the 1920s to give birth to two sons. As early as 1932, she started recording her songs. At the same time, her career as an actress underwent a considerable turning point with the advent of talking films. With the Fall of France in 1940, she left Paris for Saint-Raphaël. She stayed with Joseph Kessel (with whom, as noted, she would start a long relationship) and his nephew Maurice"
"stars of the 1920s. Among his memorable roles were Guy Fawkes (1923), Matthias in The Wandering Jew (1923) (which also featured his wife as Judith), Henry IV in ""Henry, King of Navarre"" (1924), and Henry V in ""Royal Cavalcade"" (1935). Lang also wrote the plays ""Carnival"" (1919) and ""The Purple Mask"" (1920), both of which were produced on Broadway and made into films. In 1940 the Langs were staying with their old friend Dornford Yates and his wife at their house near Pau in France when France surrendered. The Langs had to escape from the advancing Germans through Spain to"
"died in Versailles at age 91. She was portrayed by actress Helen McCrory in Martin Scorsese's 2011 film ""Hugo"". Jehanne D'Alcy Charlotte Lucie Marie Adèle Stephanie Adrienne Faës, known by her stage name Jeanne d'Alcy or Jehanne d'Alcy (20 March 1865 – 14 October 1956), was a French film actress. She was the wife of French cinema pioneer Georges Méliès from 1925 until his death in 1938. D'Alcy had achieved success in theatrical productions by 1896, but left the stage to devote herself to film, becoming one of the first performers to do so. She was born in Vaujours, Seine-Saint-Denis."
"debut at the Théâtre du Gymnase the previous year in ""Le Maître de forges"", a huge theatrical and literary success. They divorced in 1888. On 27 May 1893, he married a second time with the actress Raphaële Sisos The writers Jules Clarétie and Auguste Vacquerie, Eugène Bertrand, director of the Opéra de Paris, and Arthur Meyer, director of ""Le Gaulois"", were witnesses at the act. In July 1894, he suffered a stroke. Some days later, the ""Gil Blas"" informed its readers that But his health was getting worse. In ""Le Temps"" dated 8 September, it read that It is in"
"the couple divorced a year later. She had four children by her second husband, Comte François Reynier Ambroise Henri Pozzo di Borgo, whom she married in 1953 but also divorced. She died in Paris of cancer shortly after her 50th birthday. Odile Versois Odile Versois (born Étiennette de Poliakoff-Baydaroff; 15 June 1930 – 23 June 1980) was a French actress who appeared in 47 film and television productions between 1948 and 1980. Versois was the sister of actresses Marina Vlady, Hélène Vallier and Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff. Their father, Vladimir, was a noted opera singer of Russian descent, and their mother, Militza"
"She performed on Broadway in the musicals ""Jumping Jupiter"" and ""The Quaker Girl"" (both 1911) and ""Lady Luxury"", and starred on Broadway in plays by some of the leading comic dramatists of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, including the roles of Jerry Lamarr in Avery Hopwood's ""The Gold Diggers"" (1919), Mrs. Cheyney in Frederick Lonsdale's ""The Last of Mrs. Cheyney"" (1925), Lady George Grayston in W. Somerset Maugham's ""Our Betters"" (1928), and Enid Fuller in George Kelly's ""Fatal Weakness"". Between 1929 and 1931, she was married to screen actor John Gilbert, her second husband. Claire later became identified with the"