Yvonne Vallée

Biography

From WikipediaYvonne Vallée (February 21, 1899 – June 15, 1996) was aFrench actress.She was born Marguerite Yvonne Vallee in Bordeaux in 1899.Vallée was the wife of Maurice Chevalier from 1927 to 1933. She died inVallauris, France in 1996, aged 97. She is buried in the Cimetière du Grand Jasin Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes)Before their marriage, Yvonne Vallée was Chevalier's musichall dancing partner.She performed operetta often alongside Chevalier and was inthe ensemble for the Paris debut of Belle of New York.Reportedly she met Chevalier in 1924 during his period ofdepression on return to France from a failed venture in New York City; thisculminated in attempted suicide, but things turned around for Chevalier and hemarried Vallée three years later.The pair is featured in the photograph "Réunion destars du cinéma" by Erich Salomon.Vallée frequently performed alongside her husband, playingthe café proprietor's daughter (the love interest of her husband's character)in Le Petit Cafe, in the musical "Playboy of Paris", directed byLudwig Berger and singing in duo with him on the recording "Dit's moiM'sieur Chevalier".The marriage lasted eight years, and they weredivorced on grounds of incompatibility.