Gabrielle_Brune

Gabrielle Brune

Gabrielle Brune

British actress


Gabrielle Brune (12 February 1912 in Bournemouth, Hampshire[1] 18 January 2005 in Chichester, Sussex) was a British actress.[2]

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Career

On stage from 1930, her work included appearances in cabaret, the West End, on Broadway, in films and on television.[3][4][5]

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.[6] She used her mother's surname professionally.

In 1941, she was reported as recovering from appendicitis and double pneumonia in a river house at Datchet on the Thames.[7]

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: (NB: Raymond Francis).[8] In 1942, she married an American Army officer, Maj. Walter J. Currie, in London.[9][10]

On January 18, 2005, she died at 92 years old.

Selected filmography


References

  1. Since local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974, Bournemouth has been in Dorset
  2. "Gabrielle Brune | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  3. McFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781526111968 via Google Books.
  4. "River Holiday: Gabrielle Brune has been Convalescing at Datchet" The Tatler and Bystander (20 August 1941): 259.
  5. Frank Reil, "Line on Liners" Brooklyn Daily Eagle (20 April 1938): 23. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  6. "Wed in England" Advocate-Messenger (28 June 1942): 1. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon




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