- Audry, Jacqueline
- (September 25, 1908, Orange, Vaucluse, France - June 22, 1977, Poissy, Yvelines, France)The great-niece of Gaston Doumergue, who was French president from 1924 to 1931, she was briefly an antiquarian before starting in films as a script girl in 1932. After working as an assistant director (1938 Le Roman de Werther / Werther, Max Ophuls; 1939 L'Esclave blanche / USA: Pasha's Wives, Marc Sorkin; Jeunes Filles en Détresse, G. W. Pabst; 1940 Les Musiciens du Ciel, Georges Lacombe; Elles étaient Douze Femmes, Georges Lacombe; Paris-New York, Yves Mi-rande, Claude Heymann; 1942 L'Assassin a peur la Nuit, Jean Delannoy), she directed a short, Les Chevaux du Vercors. She died in a car crash. Her husband, screenwriter and journalist Pierre Laroche (1902-1962), and her sister, writer and playwright Colette Audry (1906-1990), wrote several of her feature films.Filmography1943 ◘ Les Chevaux du Vercors (short; documentary)1946 ◘ Les Malheurs de Sophie1949 ◘ Sombre Dimanche / Australia: Gloomy Sunday (also songwriter)◘ Gigi1950 ◘ Minne, l'Ingénue libertine / USA: Minne1951 ◘ Olivia / USA: The Pit of Loneliness1954 ◘ Huis clos / USA: No Exit◘ La Caraque blonde (shot in 1952-1953)1956 ◘ Mitsou◘ La Garçonne◘ C'est la Faute d'Adam / UK: In Six Easy Lessons L'Ecole des Cocottes1960 ◘ Le Secret du Chevalier d'Eon / Storie d'amore proibite / Il cavaliere e la zarina (France / Italy)◘ Les Petits Matins◘ Cadavres en Vacances / Pas si folles les Guêpes (shot in 1961)1967 ◘ Fruits amers / Frutti amari (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy / Yugoslavia)1969 ◘ Le Lis de Mer (unreleased)Television Filmography1965 ◘ Le Bonheur conjugal (113 X 26')1973 ◘ Le Grand Amour de Balzac (7 X 52'; co-director with Wojciech Solarz; France / Poland)
Encyclopedia of French film directors . Philippe Rège. 2011.