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 ''Sunshine Sally'' is a 1922 Australian silent film directed by Lawson Harris set in the Sydney suburb of Woolloomooloo. Most of the movie survives today. Plot Sal and Tottie are sacked from their jobs in a laundry, then go on a picnic with fri ...

'' (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