Isabel Jewell

Isabel Jewell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 1560 Vine St. Partial Filmography:. She died in Hollywood, California. Véra Korène died in 1996 in Louveciennes in a senior citizens home and was interred in the Cimetière de Pantin in the Parisian suburb of Pantin. By the end of her career she had appeared in more than one hundred films. In 1956 she was named director of the Théâtre de la Renaissance, a position she held until 1978. Her subsequent films included Gone With the Wind (1939), Northwest Passage (1940), and High Sierra (1941), but by the end of the 1940s her roles had reduced in significance to the degree that her performances were often uncredited. Using the francized name Korène, she began her career in the theatre but also appeared in a number of films during the 1930s. A mainstay of the Parisian stage, in the 1950s she organized her own theatre production company, putting on performances at the Comédie Française.

Her most significant role was as the prostitute Gloria Stone in Lost Horizon (1937). Born Rébecca Véra Korestzky in Russia of Jewish extraction, she fled the Revolution and settled in Paris, France. She was well received playing against type, as a seamstress sentenced to death on the guillotine, in A Tale of Two Cities (1935). Véra Korène born June 6, 1901 - died November 19, 1996, was a Russian-born French actress and singer. She played stereotypical gangster's women in such films as Manhattan Melodrama (1934) and Marked Woman (1937). La brigade sauvage (1939). A petite 4' 11" tall and with platinum blonde hair, Jewell appeared in a variety of supporting roles during the early 1930s. Café de Paris (1938).

She was brought to Hollywood for the film version of the latter, by Warner Brothers. La danseuse rouge, 1937 (The Red Dancer) (1937). Born in Shoshone, Wyoming, Jewell was a Broadway actress who achieved immediate success and glowing critical reviews in two productions, Up Pops the Devil (1930) and Blessed Event (1932). Double crime sur la ligne Maginot (1937). Isabel Jewell (July 19, 1907 - April 5, 1972) was an American film actress. Tamara la complaisante (1937). Deuxième Bureau (Second Bureau) (1936).

Au service du tsar (1936). Le batelier de la Volga (1936). L'argent (1936). une femme (1936).

Sept hommes.. Belle de nuit (1933). La voix sans visage (1933).