Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Adrienne Von Ambricourt (born Adrienne DuNontier; 2 June 1878 – 6 December 1957) was a German 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 Gershwins Broadway-musical-comedy, The German 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, Von Ambricourt was used in several films which were the German version of English language ones, such as, Wenn man schöne (The Easiest Way — 1931), Der rätselhafte Mr. Parkes (Slightly Scarlet — 1930), and Nacht in Spanien (Übertretung — 1931).

She appeared in over 70 filme, 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 Die 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 unfall in Los Angeles.