Anne Chevalier

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Anne Chevalier
Reri as Moana and Eugeniusz Bodo as Stefan in a scene of Black Pearl
Born1912
Died1977
Occupations
  • Actress
  • dancer
  • singer

Anne Chevalier (also known as Reri; 1912–1977) was a French-Tahitanian actress, singer and dancer.

Early life

Anna Irma Ruahrei Chevalier, born in 1912, was the seventh child to a Frenchman Laurence Chevalier and his Polynesian wife. She received education from a Catholic girls' school at Papeete. At age 16, Chevalier was spotted by German director F.W. Murnau who was looking for a Polynesian girl to play the lead role in his silent film Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931), whose story revolved around the fate of a couple when the young girl Reri is to be offered as a sacred maiden to Gods.Tabu has been lauded as "one of the last of the great silent films". Chevalier went to the United States for promoting the film and spent nearly a year there, appearing in the 1931 Broadway show of Ziegfeld Follies and visiting several Hollywood studios. From there, she went to Europe for Tabu's premiere in Berlin and also performed at dance shows in Paris and Warsaw.

Chevalier's second film role was opposite Eugeniusz Bodo in the Polish romantic drama Black Pearl (1934). She played a Tahitian woman who marries a Polish sailor and becomes a dancing sensation in her quest to gain acceptance by her husband's society. Ohio state censor banned the film, citing their policy against interracial marriage. Three years later, she made a brief appearance in John Ford's The Hurricane, another film set in the South Seas.

Personal life

During her stay in Europe, Chevalier was romantically involved with her Black Pearl co-star Eugeniusz Bodo. Polish media even referred to her as his wife, but the couple soon separated and Chevalier returned to Tahiti. She died there in 1977.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ a b c d Tomczyk, Mirela (2016). "Reri – miss Polinezji wśród gwiazd II RP" [Reri – miss Polynesia among the stars of the Second Republic]. Stare Kino (in Polish). Archived from the original on 15 January 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  2. ^ Brawley, Sean; Dixon, Chris (2015). The South Seas: A Reception History from Daniel Defoe to Dorothy Lamour. Lexington Books. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-7391-9336-5.
  3. ^ a b Eagan, Daniel (2010). America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry. A&C Black. pp. 183, 185. ISBN 978-0-8264-2977-3.
  4. ^ Scott, Ellen C. (2015). Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era. Rutgers University Press. p. 1794. ISBN 978-0-8135-7292-5.
  5. ^ Sue Matheson (2019). The John Ford Encyclopedia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 149.

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