Adrienne D'Ambricourt
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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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.571 |
| Birthday | 1878-06-02 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As | Adrienne d'Ambricourt , Adrienne DuNontier, |
1937
History Is Made at Night
6.6/42
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History Is Made at Night
1939
City in Darkness
6.4/15
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying...
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City in Darkness
1955
The Purple Mask
5/5
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The Purple Mask
1944
Experiment Perilous
5.6/31
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...
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Experiment Perilous
1926
God Gave Me Twenty Cents
0/0
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God Gave Me Twenty Cents
1924
Wages of Virtue
0/0
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...
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Wages of Virtue
1935
Peter Ibbetson
7/46
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Peter Ibbetson
1931
The Trial of Mary Dugan
0/0
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
1934
Stingaree
5.9/9
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Stingaree
1951
Beautiful Love
4.3/3
Dr. Claude Moulin leaves his wife and child for a younger woman but the child needs attention and the wife falls very ill.
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Beautiful Love
1945
Saratoga Trunk
5.6/14
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Saratoga Trunk
1937
Mama Steps Out
6/1
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Mama Steps Out
1931
This Modern Age
6/10
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
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This Modern Age
1938
Artists and Models Abroad
3/2
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Artists and Models Abroad
1931
Men in Her Life
6/1
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Men in Her Life
1930
Scotland Yard
0/0
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Scotland Yard
1943
Casablanca
8.158/5377
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Casablanca
1931
Transgression
4/4
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
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Transgression
1929
The Trial of Mary Dugan
6/3
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
1939
Bulldog Drummond's Bride
6.4/12
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Bulldog Drummond's Bride
1934
The Cat and the Fiddle
6.9/7
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
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The Cat and the Fiddle
1933
Gallant Lady
6/2
Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.
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Gallant Lady
1933
Disgraced!
0/0
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...
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Disgraced!
1946
Calcutta
6.2/17
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and...
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Calcutta
1931
War Mamas
0/0
During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers.
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War Mamas
1937
We Have Our Moments
5.8/2
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...
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We Have Our Moments
1930
The Bad One
6/0
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...
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The Bad One
1937
Live, Love and Learn
5.8/6
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his stra...
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Live, Love and Learn
1938
I Met My Love Again
5.5/4
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I Met My Love Again
1938
I'll Give a Million
5.7/6
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I'll Give a Million
1936
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
5.8/3
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,...
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1931
Scandal Sheet
0/0
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
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Scandal Sheet
1939
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
7/36
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939
Nurse Edith Cavell
6.4/9
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-...
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Nurse Edith Cavell
1939
Pack Up Your Troubles
6.2/2
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
1937
Dangerously Yours
6/1
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...
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Dangerously Yours
1945
To Have and Have Not
7.5/508
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
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To Have and Have Not
1933
The Eagle and the Hawk
6.6/23
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...
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The Eagle and the Hawk
1933
Design for Living
7.1/185
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
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Design for Living
1940
Two Girls on Broadway
6.8/4
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 wh...
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Two Girls on Broadway
1934
Marie Galante
4.8/9
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Marie Galante
1929
Footlights and Fools
0/0
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.
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Footlights and Fools
1940
Forty Little Mothers
6.2/4
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...
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Forty Little Mothers
1933
The Song of Songs
6/20
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...
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The Song of Songs
1930
What a Widow!
6.5/2
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...
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What a Widow!
1952
Bal Tabarin
0/0
Story of a girl who witnesses murder of notorious international jewel thief. Afraid that the gang will attack her, she flees to Paris.
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Bal Tabarin
1932
What Price Hollywood?
6.6/31
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaura...
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What Price Hollywood?
1944
The White Cliffs of Dover
6.7/21
American 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 whir...
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The White Cliffs of Dover
1937
Seventh Heaven
6.6/14
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...
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Seventh Heaven
1924
The Humming Bird
6/1
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.
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The Humming Bird
1933
The Secret of Madame Blanche
4/4
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
1945
Paris Underground
5.4/5
Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an Engl...
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Paris Underground
1936
San Francisco
6.6/67
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San Francisco
1931
Svengali
6.1/45
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
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Svengali
1929
Our Modern Maidens
5.9/14
Young, vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancé Gil a diplomatic appointment. Me...
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