Renée Adorée

Some of Renée Adorée’s films:. Now well known as the author of recipe books, Jane Asher runs a company making novelty cakes for special occasions, and still acts on television and in the theatre. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1601 Vine Street. They have three children. She is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, California. In 1971 she met the illustrator Gerald Scarfe, and they married ten years later in 1981. Renée Adorée lived only a few years longer, passing away a few days after her 35th birthday on October 5, 1933 in Tujunga, California. Thereafter, she was more commonly seen on television; The Stone Tape (1972); Brideshead Revisited (1981); Crossroads (2001).

That year she was diagnosed with tuberculosis and was forced to retire from the film industry. Asher appeared in Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death in 1964, and Alfie, opposite Michael Caine in 1966. By the end of 1930, she had appeared in forty-five films. Her brother Peter was part of the duo Peter & Gordon, for whom McCartney penned the number one hit A World Without Love. She would star opposite Lon Chaney and her former brother-in-law Owen Moore, make three more films with John Gilbert, and star in four films with another leading Hollywood actor, the Latin star, Ramon Novarro. She inspired many of McCartney's best songs, such as Here, There and Everywhere and For No One. With the advent of sound in film, Renée Adorée was one of the fortunate ones whose voice came over well enough to continue acting. In 1963, Asher interviewed The Beatles, and then commenced a five year relationship with Paul McCartney.

She is most famous for her role as "Melisande" in the melodramatic romance movie The Big Parade, that became one of MGM's biggest hits of all time and a film historians rank as one of the best films made in the silent film era. Co-starring John Gilbert, The Big Parade is still shown on television today and is available on video. After some roles as a child actress, including an appearance in the 1955 science-fiction film The Quatermass Xperiment, she worked as an interviewer on the BBC's Juke Box Jury. Despite her petite stature, Renée Adorée’s sensuous beauty and penetrating eyes made for a compelling presence on the black and white screen. April 5, 1946) is a British film and television actress. Adorée married a second time to Sherman Gill. Jane Asher (b. The marriage did not last and in 1925, Ms.

Six weeks after their meeting, Renée Adorée married Tom Moore on February 12, 1921 in his home in Beverly Hills, California. While in New York City on New Year’s Eve 1920 she met Tom Moore (1883-1955). Fifteen years her senior, Tom Moore and his brothers were very successful Hollywood actors. In 1920, given the exotic French name Renée Adorée by the studio, she appeared in her first motion picture. From there, she went on to New York City where she continued to work in the theatre until the opportunity came to work in the motion picture business.

She was performing in Russia when World War I broke out and fled to London, England. In her teen years she began acting in minor stage productions and toured Europe with her troupe. Born Jeanne de La Fonte in Lille, Nord, France, she was the daughter of circus artists who, by age five, was performing in the circus with her parents. Renée Adorée (September 30, 1898–October 5, 1933) was a French actress.

Redemption - (1930). The Singer From Seville - (1930). Call of the Flesh - (1930). The Spieler - (1930).

Tide of Empire - (1929). Redemption - (1929). The Pagan - (1929). Show People - (1928).

The Michigan Kid - (1928). The Mating Call - (1928). Forbidden Hours - (1928). A Certain Young Man - (1928).

The Cossacks - (1928). On The Boulevard - (1927). Heaven on Earth - (1927). The Show - (1927).

Wu - (1927). Mr. Back to God's Country - (1927). Tin Gods - (1926).