Gabrielle Brune Explained

Gabrielle Brune
Birth Name:Gabrielle Hudson
Birth Date:1912 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Bournemouth, Hampshire, England
Death Place:Chichester, Sussex, England
Occupation:Actress

Gabrielle Brune (12 February 1912 in Bournemouth, Hampshire[1]  - 18 January 2005 in Chichester, Sussex) was a British actress.[2]

Career

On stage from 1930, her work included appearances in cabaret, the West End, on Broadway, in films and on television.[3] [4] [5]

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.[6] She used her mother's surname professionally.

In 1941, she was reported to be recovering from appendicitis and double pneumonia in a river house at Datchet on the Thames.[7]

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).[8] In 1942, she married an American Army officer, Maj. Walter J. Currie, in London.[9] [10]

She died on 18 January 2005, at the age of 92.

Selected filmography

Notes and References

  1. Since local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974, Bournemouth has been in Dorset
  2. Web site: Gabrielle Brune | BFI . https://web.archive.org/web/20090113201926/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/304808 . dead . 2009-01-13 . Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk . 2016-08-27.
  3. Book: McFarlane, Brian. The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. 16 May 2016. Oxford University Press. Google Books. 9781526111968.
  4. Web site: Gabrielle Brune – Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB. www.ibdb.com.
  5. Web site: Gabrielle Brune - Theatricalia. theatricalia.com.
  6. Ross Laird, Moanin' Low: A Discography of Female Popular Vocal Recordings, 1920-1933 (Greenwood Publishing 1996): 61.
  7. http://search.proquest.com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/docview/1795053695/ADEC4C79B49B4B96PQ/3 "River Holiday: Gabrielle Brune has been Convalescing at Datchet"
  8. Frank Reil, "Line on Liners" Brooklyn Daily Eagle (20 April 1938): 23. via Newspapers.com
  9. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6357559/walter_currie_married_gabrielle_brune/ "Wed in England"
  10. http://search.proquest.com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/docview/1794888317/ADEC4C79B49B4B96PQ/4 "Informally at Home: Gabrielle Brune, Actress Wife of Lieut.-Colonel Walter Currie, U. S. Army"