Sandra Ravel (16 January 1910 – 13 August 1954) was an Italian film actress of the 1930s.[1]
Sandra Ravel | |
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 Those Three French Girls movie poster, with Yola d'Avril, Fifi D'Orsay, and Sandra Ravel (from left to right) | |
| Born | Alessandra Winkelhauser Ratti 16 January 1910 |
| Died | 13 August 1954 (aged 44) Milan, Lombardy, Italy |
| Other names | Alessandra Leverkusen |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1930–1939 (film) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Maurizio Gucci |
Biography
editShe was born as Alessandra Winkelhauser Ratti in Milan, Italy in 1910 to a German father who was a chemical plant worker, and a Swiss mother from the Ratti family of Lugano.[2]
Ravel had a minor role in Together in the Dark, where she met her future husband. She was married in 1944 in Venice to the actor and entrepreneur Rodolfo Gucci.[2][3] Their only child, Maurizio (1948-1995), was named for his father's theatrical alter ego, "Maurizio D'Ancora".[2]
Sandra Ravel died in 1954, aged 44, from uterine cancer in her native Lombardy.[4]
Filmography
edit- Mysterious Mr. Parkes (1930)
- Those Three French Girls (1930)[5]
- War Nurse (1930)
- The Single Sin (1931)
- Paradise (1932)[6]
- A Star Disappears (1932)
- Together in the Dark (1933)
- The House of Shame (1938)
- A Wife in Danger (1939)
- The Castle Ball (1939)
- Two Million for a Smile (1939)
References
edit- ^ Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 118. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3.
- ^ a b c Forden, Sara G. (8 May 2012). The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed. Harper Collins. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-06-222267-1.
- ^ "Guccio Gucci". The Florentine. 17 June 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
married a German actress, Alessandra Leverkusen, known on the screen as Sandra Ravel
- ^ Gay Forden, Sara (2008). La saga dei Gucci. p. 74.
- ^ Eames, John Douglas (1 December 1988). The MGM story: the complete history of fifty roaring years. Crown Publishers. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-517-52613-2.
- ^ Mancini, Elaine (1985). Struggles of the Italian Film Industry During Fascism, 1930-1935. UMI Research Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-8357-1655-0.
Further reading
edit- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
edit- Sandra Ravel at IMDb
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