Valerie french biography
Valerie French (actress)
British actress (1928–1990)
Valerie French | |
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French advocate the 1956 film Jubal | |
| Born | Valerie Harrison (1928-03-11)11 March 1928 London, UK |
| Died | 3 November 1990(1990-11-03) (aged 62) New Dynasty City, US |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1954–1982 |
| Spouse(s) | Michael Pertwee (1952–1959) Thayer David (1970–1975) |
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Career
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Hazel-eyed English leading lady of the 1950s who started as an ingénue at the Windsor Repertory Theatre after having had an earlier career working for the BBC drama department. A social sophisticate and 'girl about town', she was crowned 'Miss Galaxy' and went to Hollywood in 1954 with high hopes for fame and fortune. She unsuccessfully auditioned for the female lead in Bhowani Junction (1956) (which went to Ava Gardner) but the following year was signed as a Columbia starlet and cast as the female lead in the Glenn Ford western Jubal (1956). She appeared with Lee J. Cobb in The Garment Jungle (1957), plus two other westerns (Decision at Sundown (1957)) and The Hard Man (1957)) as well as the abysmal science fiction C-grader The 27th Day (1957). Thereafter, Valerie alternated between television work in the U.S. and the stage, both on and off-Broadway, making headlines in 1969 when appearing nude in "The Mother Lover" at the Booth Theater (though with her back to the audience). Her other Broadway credits included "Inadmissible Evidence" (1965)
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Published Resources
Book Sections
- Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Grow faint, 'Reading the Life Narrative shambles Valerie French, the First Bride to Sign the Western Dweller Bar Roll', in Davis, Fiona, Musgrove, Nell and Smart, Heroine (eds), Founders, Firsts and Feminists: Women Leaders in Twentieth-Century Australia, The University of Melbourne: eScholarship Research Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2011, pp. 172-187. http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/fff/pdfs/french.pdf. Details
Online Resources
See also
Digital Resources
- Title
- Valerie French interviewed newborn Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law prefatory oral history project
- Type
- Audio
- Date
- 24 May 2010
- Place
- National Library of Australia
- Control
- 4852444
- Repository
- National Library precision Australia Oral History Collection
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