Raymonde_Allain

Raymonde Allain

Raymonde Allain

French model and actress (1912–2008)

Raymonde Allain (22 June 1912 – 27 July 2008) was a French model and actress.[1] She was Miss France in 1928.[2] Her participation in the Miss Universe contest drew international media attention,[3] and her controversial loss to American Ella Van Hueson [fr] prompted critical dispute over what counted as "real beauty".[4] Allain later wrote an autobiography titled Histoire vraie d'un prix de beauté.

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Selected filmography

Bibliography

  • Histoire vraie d'un prix de beauté, Gallimard, 1933, OCLC 9860441

References

  1. [1]
    Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 168.
  2. [2]
    Storme, Kévin (December 14, 2018). "Concours. La Bretagne, terre de Miss". Le Télégramme (in French). Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  3. [3]
    Grout, Holly (May 13, 2015). The Force of Beauty: Transforming French Ideas of Femininity in the Third Republic. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 9780807159903.
  4. [4]
    "Paris Quarrels over Milady Beautiful". Washington Post. July 8, 1928.

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