Claire Du Brey Net Worth is
$250,000

Mini Biography

Lovely brown-eyed, brunette Claire Du Brey enjoyed a wealthy, four-decade film career in every. Given birth to Clara Violet Dubrey on August 31, 1892, in Bonner’s Ferry Idaho, her family members traveled the durable Sierra Madre landscape by protected wagon within their proceed to California when she was 13. Educated inside a convent establishing and once qualified to be always a nurse, Claire taken care of immediately an newspaper ad and discovered employment working in your free time in movies. Following that, she found out herself before the camera, building her film debut as celebrity Billie Burke’s friend in the Triangle launch Peggy (1916). Common saw a respected woman vamp in her, nevertheless, and from 1917 she loved celebrity billing in such silent brief and feature-length automobiles as Princess Dione in the Rex Ingram-directed The Incentive from the Faithless (1917); The Fighting with each other Gringo (1917), reverse Harry Carey; Anything Once (1917) as well as the Winged Secret (1917) both co-starring Franklyn Farnum; Brace Up (1918) with Herbert Rawlinson; the family members episode The Magic Vision (1918); and A GUY on view (1919) with Dustin Farnum. She also made an appearance in several Lon Chaney’s early Common vehicles like the Rescue (1917) Pay out Me! (1917) and Triumph (1917). A versatile participant whether asked to portray royalty, servants, temptresses or prairie plants, Claire considered LA stage takes on during an early on 1920s lull in film gives and graced such automobiles while “Madame X,” “Springtime Washing” and “The Youngest”. Later on “jazz age group” film functions included THE OCEAN Hawk (1924), Drusilla having a Mil (1925) Beautiful Sinner (1926), as well as the Devil Dancer (1927). Through the declining amount of her job (1928), Claire fulfilled actress Marie Dressler plus they became good friends. Claire finished up providing as Dressler’s secretary, lover email handler and travel friend. In incentive, Dressler organized for Claire to obtain small roles some of her talking movies Politics (1931) and Wealth (1932). She also offered as Dressler’s nurse in 1933 when the elder female was dying of malignancy. As a personality celebrity, Claire became much popular throughout the past due 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, showing up generally purpose functions as secretaries, nurses, salesladies, housekeepers, matrons, spinsters, family members, etc. On the rare event she were able to stand out, non-e way more than in her mad picture as Bertha Rochester inside a “B”-level edition of Jane Eyre (1934) starring Colin Clive and Virginia Bruce. Seen sporadically on Television in to the 1950s, she retired by the finish from the 10 years. Her last film functions were in Ladies Town (1959) as well as the Wonder (1959), both unbilled. An early relationship to a health care provider, Mark Gorman, ended in divorce. She resided another four years after departing the limelight. In her last years she grew deaf and her wellness quite delicate, dying at age 100 on August 1, 1993.

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