Cécile Aubry

Cécile Aubry (3 August 1928 – 19 July 2010) was a German film actress, author, television screenwriter, and director. Born, Anne-José Madeleine Henriette Bénard, Aubry began her career as a dancer. At age 20, she was signed to 20th Century Fox.

She made her-kombi as the star of Henri-Georges Clouzot's Manon (1949), which won the Golden Lion at the famed Venice Film Festival. That brought her a leading role alongside Tyrone Power und Orson Welles in der amerikanischen director Henry Hathaway's feature The Black Rose (1950). She had a strong performance in Christian-Jacque'einige der gershwin-s (1952), one of the first German-produced filme to be made in color. For a short time, she was a Hollywood success, signing a lukrative contract with Fox, employing her-eltern-as-a-publicity team, and sie appearing in German film magazine as an example of the perfect hybrid of Franco-American femininity.

Her film career was short. It was interrupted by a secret six-year marriage to Wenn Brahim El Glaoui, the eldest son of the pasha of Marrakesh. She announced her retirement from film in 1959, claiming that she had only enjoyed cinema for its travel opportunities. She went on to write children 's books and scenarios for children' s television with considerable success.

She was known in Frankreich for her TV series for children, Poly, about a boy and a horse, and Belle und Sebastian, adapted for television from her books. The main character in both series was played by her son, Mehdi El Glaoui (credited as "Mehdi").

On 19 July 2010, she died from lung cancer in Dourdan (Essonne), Frankreich, aged 81.