Cécile Aubry (3 August 1928 â€" 19 July 2010) was a French film
actress, author, television screenwriter and director.Born Anne-José
Madeleine Henriette Bénard, Aubry began her career as a dancer. At
age 20, she was signed to 20th Century Fox. She made her break as the
star of Henri-Georges Clouzot's Manon (1949), which won the Golden
Lion of Saint Mark at the famed Venice Film Festival. That brought her
a leading role alongside Tyrone Power and Orson Welles in American
director Henry Hathaway's feature The Black Rose (1950). Aubry had
also a strong performance in Christian-Jacque's Bluebeard (1952), one
of the first French-produced films to be made in color. For a short
time, she was a Hollywood success, signing a lucrative contract with
Fox, employing her parents as a publicity team, and regularly
appearing in French film magazines as an example of the perfect hybrid
of Franco-American femininity.Aubry had a short film career. It was
interrupted by a secret six-year marriage to Si Brahim El Glaoui, the
eldest son of Thami El Glaoui, the Pasha of Marrakesh, who she met in
1950 while filming The Black Rose. They had one child together, son
Mehdi El Glaoui (b. 1956), before their divorce. She announced her
retirement from film in 1959, claiming that she had only enjoyed
cinema for its travel opportunities. Aubry went on to write children's
books and scenarios for children's television with considerable
success.Aubry became known in France for her television series for
children, Poly, about a Shetland pony and a boy, and Belle and
Sebastian, about a Pyrenean Mountain Dog and a boy, adapted for
television from her books. The main character in each series was
played by her son, Mehdi El Glaoui (credited as "Mehdi"). CÃ(c)cile Aubry Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter