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French actress Andrée Spinelly (1887-1966) was commonly known as Spinelly. While she had a rich stage career between the 1900s and the 1920s, she acted in various films in the 1930s, in particular La Châtelaine du Liban (1934).
Spinelly was born Élisa Berthelot in 1887 in Paris. her father was unknown. In 1904, Élisa took the name of Fournier when her mother Elisa Marie Louise Berthelot married Marc Fournier. Andrée Spinelly made her debut in 1905 in 'Les Petites Laripette', an Operetta Bouffe by Paul Morize and Henry Vernel. She was noticed: "Miss Andrée Spinelly, a young artist of sixteen, has just turned ou
French actress Andrée Spinelly (1887-1966) was commonly known as Spinelly. While she had a rich stage career between the 1900s and the 1920s, she acted in various films in the 1930s, in particular La Châtelaine du Liban (1934).
Spinelly was born Élisa Berthelot in 1887 in Paris. her father was unknown. In 1904, Élisa took the name of Fournier when her mother Elisa Marie Louise Berthelot married Marc Fournier. Andrée Spinelly made her debut in 1905 in 'Les Petites Laripette', an Operetta Bouffe by Paul Morize and Henry Vernel. She was noticed: "Miss Andrée Spinelly, a young artist of sixteen, has just turned out to be an excellent actress in Les Petites Laripette, the current success of Parisiana ”. In the following years, she starred on stage in light comedies and revue". She was responsible for the career of Charles Gesmar, who designed her costumes from 1915 onward - when he was only fifteen. She began an affair with Raimu with whom she played in 'Plus ça change!' (1915) and in 'L'École des cocottes' (1920). Critics celebrated her charm.
During the 1930s, Spinelly starred in a few films. She played the lead in the comedy L'amour à l'américaine/American Love (Claude Heymann, Pál Fejös, 1931) co-starring André Luguet and Suzet Maïs. Based on a play of the same name, it portrays the romantic escapades of a young American woman in France who falls in love with a married man. Spinelly then starred in the spy thriller La Châtelaine du Liban/The Milady of Liban (Jean Epstein, 1934), with Jean Murat. She played a beautiful young woman at the centre of a web of espionage in Lebanon with clashes between the French and British secret services. The film is based on the novel 'La Châtelaine du Liban' (1924) by Pierre Benoit. Filming took place in Lebanon, France, Egypt, Palestine and Syria. Her other films included the Georges Feydeau (Karl Anton, 1933) with Robert Burnier, and the French-German co-production Idylle au Caire (Claude Heymann, Reinhold Schünzel, 1933), starring Renate Müller. It was an alternate language version of the film Season in Cairo made by the Ufa. The film was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and on location in Egypt. Her final film was Suzanne et ses brigands/Suzanne and her brigands (Yves Ciampi,1949) with René Dary and Suzanne Flon. Her affair with the novelist Pierre Benoit, whom she had met in 1933 during the filming of his novel 'La Châtelaine du Liban', led her to retire to the Pyrénées-Atlantiques in 1948. In 1966, Andrée Spinelly died in Bidart, Pyrénées-Atlantiques. She was 79.
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