Andrée Lafayette | |
Birth Name: | Andrée Rose Godard |
Birth Date: | 19 May 1903 |
Birth Place: | Achères, Yvelines, France |
Death Place: | Équemauville, Calvados, France |
Othername: | Andrée Rose Godard de la Bigne |
Occupation: | Actress |
Yearsactive: | 1923–1953 (film) |
Spouse: | Arthur Max Constant (1923–?) |
Andrée Rose Godard (19 May 1903 – 3 October 1989), known by her stage-name as Andrée Lafayette, also known by her self-invented title as Countess Andrée de la Bigne, was a French stage and film actress, and granddaughter of the infamous demi-mondaine (prostitute) Émilie Louise Delabigne who was known by her self-invented title as Countess Valtesse de La Bigne.[1]
Lafayette was born in 1903 to Julia Pâquerette Fossey and Paul Jules Auguste Godard. She had two siblings, Paul and Margot.[2] Describing Lafayette as "one of the most beautiful girls in France," author Richard Walton Tully brought her to the United States to star in the film Trilby (1923).[3]
On April 17, 1923, Lafayette married actor Arthur Max Constant.[4]