Gabrielle Brune (12 February 1912 in

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– 18 January 2005 in

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, Sussex) was a British actress.

Career

On stage from 1930, her work included appearances in cabaret, the

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, on Broadway, in films and on television.

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. She used her mother's surname professionally. In 1941, she was reported as recovering from

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and double pneumonia in a river house at Datchet on the Thames.

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). In 1942, she married an American Army officer, Maj. Walter J. Currie, in London."Informally at Home: Gabrielle Brune, Actress Wife of Lieut.-Colonel Walter Currie, U. S. Army"
''The Tatler and Bystander'' (15 March 1944): 327. She died in 2005, aged 92 years.

Selected filmography

* '' Red Pearls'' (1930) * '' The Penny Pool'' (1937) * '' The Wife of General Ling'' (1937) * ''

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'' (1941) * '' Tomorrow We Live'' (1943) * '' A Run for Your Money'' (1949) * '' Mandy'' (1952) * '' Hot Ice'' (1952) * '' The Wedding of Lilli Marlene'' (1953) * ''

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'' (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

External links

* * 1912 births 2005 deaths Actors from Bournemouth English stage actresses English film actresses English television actresses {{UK-film-actor-stub