Yvonne Pavis (12 May 1890-??) was an English-born actress, writer, and producer. She began acting in Hollywood in 1910 with the

Vitagraph Company Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907, ...

, occasionally acting under the name Marie Pavis. In 1922, she went to Australia and formed a production company with

Lawson Harris William Lawson Harris (June 30, 1897 – March 31, 1948) was an American director, actor, producer, and writer who made a number of films in Australia. He came to Australia originally at the behest of Arthur Shirley to work as production manag ...

. After a brief time as ''The Yvonne Pavis Production Company'', the company changed its name to ''Harris Austral Super Films'' and produced three features.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 111-112. She returned to the United States in 1924. She and Harris married, but divorced in 1925. In 1921, Pavis was granted a divorce from John William Murray, who had wed two women while still married to her.

Partial filmography

* '' The Trail of the Octopus'' (1919) * '' Tony America'' (1918) * ''

The Walk-Offs ''The Walk-Offs'' is a 1920 silent film comedy directed by Herbert Blaché and starring May Allison. It was produced by Maxwell Karger and distributed through Metro Pictures. It was based on a 1918 Broadway play, ''The Walk-offs'', by Fanny and F ...

'' (1920) * ''

An Arabian Knight ''An Arabian Knight'' is a 1920 American drama film directed by Charles Swickard and produced by Sessue Hayakawa's Haworth Pictures Corporation. Its survival status is classified as unknown, which suggests that it is a lost film. Plot As describ ...

'' (1920) * '' Silk Hosiery'' (1920) * '' The First Born'' (1921) * '' Circumstance'' (1922) - actor, writer, producer * '' A Daughter of Australia'' (1922) - actor, producer * '' Sunshine Sally'' (1922) - actor, producer.

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* 1890 births 20th-century American actresses American film producers American screenwriters American silent film actresses American women film producers British emigrants to the United States Year of death missing {{US-film-producer-stub