Corinne Luchaire (11 February 1921 â€" 22 January 1950) was a French
film actress who was a star of French cinema on the eve of World War
II. Her association with the German occupation led her to be sentenced
to "national indignity" after the war, and after writing an
autobiography, she died from tuberculosis aged only 28.Luchaire left
school to join the drama class of Raymond Rouleau and made her acting
debut under the name Rose Davel at the age of 16 in a play written by
her grandfather, Altitude 3 200. The following year she starred in
Prison sans barreaux, which in 1938 was remade in English in London as
Prison Without Bars, with her again in the lead role. She spoke
English fluently. Mary Pickford called her "the new Garbo." She
starred in 1939 in Le Dernier Tournant (The Last Bend), the first
version of the novel The Postman Always Rings Twice.Born Rosita
Christiane Yvette Luchaire in Paris, she was the daughter of
journalist and politician Jean Luchaire, who supported the 1940 French
Government's Révolution nationale. Her paternal grandfather Julien
Luchaire was a playwright and her maternal grandfather Armand Besnard
was a painter. Her sister Florence was also an actress. Her mother,
also a painter, became Gustav Stresemann's mistress, and they moved to
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