Marie-Christine Barrault

She was married to director Roger Vadim from 1990 until his death in 2000. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, she has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6548 Hollywood Blvd. Other movies include:. On her passing in 1975, Evelyn Brent was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, California. In 1975 she starred in Cousin, cousine, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her last husband was the actor Harry Fox for whom the foxtrot dance was named. They were still married when he died in 1959. She got her start on French television, in L'Oeuvre, in 1967 and in the series Que ferait donc Faber? Her film debut was in 1969 in My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud) in 1969. Evelyn Brent was married three times.

Born in Paris, she is the niece of actor Jean-Louis Barrault. After performing in more than 120 films, she retired from acting in 1950 and worked for a number of years as an actor's agent. Marie-Christine Barrault (born March 21, 1944) is a French actress. By the early part of the 1930s, she was busy working in secondary roles in a variety of films as well as touring with vaudeville shows. Bonsoir. Although the film, titled Interference, did not live up to expectations at the box office, Brent played major roles in several more features, most notably The Silver Horde in 1930. Stardust Memories. In 1928 she starred opposite William Powell in what was her own and Paramount Studios first talkie.

Signed by Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation, she went on to make more than two dozen silent films including three for the noted Austrian director, Josef von Sternberg. There, her career received a major boost the following year when she was chosen as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. After World War I, she went to London, England where she worked in film as well as on stage for a few years before going to Hollywood in 1922. As Evelyn Brent, she continued to work in film, developing into a young woman whose sultry looks were much sought after, often as a femme fatale.

Service poem, The Shooting of Dan McGrew. She began her film career working under her own name at a New Jersey film studio then made her major debut in the 1915 silent film production of the Robert W. After moving to New York City, as a teenager her good looks brought modeling jobs that led to an opportunity to become involved in the still relatively new business of making motion pictures. Born Mary Elizabeth Riggs in Tampa, Florida and known as Betty, she was a child of ten when her mother passed away, leaving her father to raise her alone.

Evelyn Brent, (October 20, 1899 - June 4, 1975), was an American film and stage actress.