#andrée debar

[kino51]

Tempête sur les Mauvents  1952

[tina-aumont]

Thanks to @74paris I could add Mara Villiers photo. She was François Villiers wife, and she was of Indian ascendent. Her real name was Jeanine Rikh but in lots of press articles she was called Jean or Mara - familiar name after the Indian goddess - she took the Villiers surname when she got married to François Villiers.

By watching the photo first I thought she looked a lot like María Montez, and the fact is that The Queen of Technicolor was the muse to lots of women of her family and also helped them a lot to have a beautiful and glamorous style.

Here is the full photo showing Jeanine Rikh and her husband François Villiers, Jean Giono, Andrée Debar and Claude Clert at Cannes Film Festival, May 1958. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images - Jeanine Rikh is not identifyed in this Getty Images photo)

In this family tree I also added Marisa Pavan's date of passing.

Remember that this family tree is updated when I have new information, so please, feel free to share links, websites, books, any knowledge that you have. Your halp is going to be credited. Thank you very much!!

Eleni xxx

Here you have Tina Aumont's Family Tree, a Family Tree that it's in constant growing.

The sources I checked are these ones:

Jean-Pierre Aumont family tree (you can go up to 1787)

Árbol Genealógico de Isidoro Gracia García (you can go up to 1465!)

"De María África a María Montez, un mito en Technicolor" documentary

"Enrique Meneses, un flash" article in Spanish from Orsay magazine

Regla María Teresa Vidal at Geni, at Familysearch and at Ancestry

*Very special thanks to Dominic Fuentes, @74paris and @shannendoherty-fans for their help.

If you know any details or have some photos from the family that aren't posted here, please send them and I will credit you.

NOTE: Isidoro Gracia García (Tina's grandad), had two sisters: Tomasa and Gaudencia, in the documentary I saw both were mentioned but it was displayed only a single photo, that's why I posted the same photo in both women. When new info comes to light, I will update it.

Thank you very much!

Eleni xxx

[suzylwade]

Jacqueline Audry The importance of Jacqueline Audry cannot be overstated. Today’s daring ‘Metteuses En Scene’ are certainly her psychic daughters as they are (“mother of new wave”) Agnès Varda’s. Audry, born in 1908, began to direct long before Varda - Audry was more a contemporary of Ida Lupino in America. Audry's movies dealt primarily with female psychology. Her first effort was a subversive adaptation of La Comtesse De Ségur's ‘Les Malheurs De Sophie’ (1946) in which the young protagonist refused aristocratic happiness and took a rebel stand. ‘Gigi’ (1948) - remade by Vincente Minnelli as a musical - and ‘Minne’ (1950) both from Colette's novels featured Danielle Delorme. But it was the overlooked ‘Olivia’ (1951) which revealed Audry's remarkable talent. In a boarding-school for girls two female teachers vie with each other for their students' love. Using literary works to enhance her story and helped by Edwige Feuillère's masterful performance Audry's tour de force about lesbianism was far ahead of its time. ‘Huis Clos’ (1954) from Sartre was her second great achievement: the elevator scene at the beginning of the movie is said to have inspired Alan Parker’s ‘Angel Heart’. Audry’s directing is dazzling with an excellent cast featuring glorious Arletty as lesbian “Inès”. ‘La Garçonne’ a remake of a thirties movie surpassed its model and introduced a woman who wanted to live like a man. ‘La Garçonne’ contained scenes which, at the time, were considered more scandalous than anything Roger Vadim was doing with Brigitte Bardot. Sadly another remake ‘L'Ecole Des Cocottes’ (1958) could not hold a candle to the thirties version featuring Raimu. Audry’s last worthwhile effort was ‘Le Secret Du Chevalier D’Eon’ (1960) the fictionalised story of Louis XV’s spy who used to dress up as a woman. Both this film and ‘La Garçonne’ featured Andrée Debar whose androgynous looks worked wonders. A road movie ‘Les Petits Matins’ (1961) and other less well received movies in the sixties ended Audry's career in 1971. She died in 1977 by which time she had unfairly sunk into oblivion. She was married to screenwriter Pierre Laroche who often worked with her. https://www.instagram.com/p/B9WU54MgN3M/?igshid=1sll3tqlqr1my

[strike-debt-bay-area]

POSTPONED TO MAY 16: Organizers’ Meeting, Saturday, 4/28, 4:00 p.m.

We’re just busy preparing for our Inequality Workshop, being held on the next two Sundays.

We’ll meet on May 16 at OMNI Commons, 4799 Shattuck in Oakland, from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm.

We can always use new minds to help us create possibilities. Here are things we are currently working on or have worked on in the past.

Wealth and Income inequality workshops! We’re excited about our two-session workshop at the Omni Commons, Sunday mornings April 29 and May 6, 11:00 a.m. Details at the link.  .

Organizing for public banking in Oakland! Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland overlaps significantly with our group. The feasibility study funded by Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, and the County of Alameda is moving forward! On April 9, we are co-sponsoring a conversation with Gayle McLaughlin, candidate for CA Lieutenant Governor, and Andrés Soto of KPFA, on student debt and public banking with the Friends: 7pm at the Richmond Library.

Helping in the early planning stages of an exciting student debt resistance project. Check out the Debt Collective, our sister organization focused on student debt.

Promoting single-payer / Medicare for All to end the plague of medical debt

Supporting money bail reform and fighting modern day debtors’ prisons and exploitative ticketing and fining schemes

Working on debarring US Banks that have been convicted of felonies from municipal contracts, and divesting from the Wall St. banks (Go Los Angeles, which is doing this!)

Organizing for Tiny Homes, sanctioned encampments and other ways to help homeless people get housing and support.

helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk

Promoting the concept of universal basic Income

Advocating for postal banking

Bring your own debt-related project!

Upcoming meetings, same time and probably same place: May 19, June 16

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Andrée Debar - Les sept péchés capitaux, 1952.