Florence Marly & Fernand Gravey-Le dernier tournant
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Florence Marly & Fernand Gravey dans un extrait du film "Le dernier tournant", Pierre Chenal 1939
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During the First World War, Gravet, who stood about five feet nine inches tall, went into the British Merchant Marine Corp.
In 1937, after several other French and British films, Gravet became the focus of an extravagant Hollywood publicity campaign, instructing moviegoers to pronounce his name properly: "Rhymes with 'Gravy'".
The roles offered to him were rather standard and he was cast in the same type Louis Jordan would be cast in the 50's and 60's. The first two films he made in America were for Warner Bros.' The King and the Chorus Girl (1937), his fifth film in English (opposite Joan Blondell and Jane Wyman) and Fools for Scandal (1938), opposite Carole Lombard and Ralph Bellamy. He then signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was cast as Johann Strauss in the enormously expensive biopic The Great Waltz, opposite Luise Rainer and Miliza Korjus.
He returned to France just before the Nazi occupation. Although he had agreed to star in German-approved French films, he was also a great underminer of the invaders as a member of the French Secret Army and the Foreign Legion.
Gravet returned to film a war hero, and continued to star in such productions as La Ronde (with Danielle Darrieux), and Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954).
Among his last English language performances were How to Steal a Million (1966), Guns for San Sebastian (1968) and The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969), in which he played the police inspector.
Category:French actors Category:French film actors Category:1905 births Category:1970 deaths
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