Gabrielle Brune
Gabrielle Brune (born, Bournemouth, Hampshire,[1] 12 February 1912 – died, Chichester, Sussex, 18 January 2005) was a British actress.[2]
Personal life
Gabrielle Brune was born Gabrielle Hudson, the only child of Thomas Habgood Hudson and Adrienne Brune; both parents were theatre professionals from Australia. Her mother was an actress and singer.[3] She used her mother's surname professionally.
In 1941, she was reported as recovering from an appendicitis and double pneumonia in a river house at Datchet on the Thames.[4]
Marriages
In 1938, Brune was described as "Mrs. G. M. Thompson, wife of an English actor," in a news report about her first professional trip to America.[5] In 1942, she married an American Army officer, Maj. Walter J. Currie, in London.[6][7]
She died in 2005, aged 92 years.
Selected filmography
- Red Pearls (1930)
- The Penny Pool (1937)
- The Wife of General Ling (1937)
- He Found a Star (1941)
- Tomorrow We Live (1943)
- A Run for Your Money (1949)
- Mandy (1952)
- The Wedding of Lilli Marlene (1953)
- The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
- Three Steps to the Gallows (1953)
- The Harassed Hero (1954)
- Touch and Go (1955)
- Fun at St. Fanny's (1956)
- Girl in the Headlines (1963)
References
- ↑ Prior to 1st April 1974 Bournemouth was in Hampshire
- ↑ "Gabrielle Brune | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
- ↑ Ross Laird, Moanin' Low: A Discography of Female Popular Vocal Recordings, 1920-1933 (Greenwood Publishing 1996): 61. ISBN 9780313292415
- ↑ "River Holiday: Gabrielle Brune has been Convalescing at Datchet" The Tatler and Bystander (August 20, 1941): 259.
- ↑ Frank Reil, "Line on Liners" Brookyn Daily Eagle (20 April 1938): 23. via Newspapers.com
- ↑ "Wed in England" Advocate-Messenger (28 June 1942): 1. via Newspapers.com
- ↑ "Informally at Home: Gabrielle Brune, Actress Wife of Lieut.-Colonel Walter Currie, U. S. Army" The Tatler and Bystander (15 March 1944): 327.