Jean pierre aumont marisa pavan biography

(January 5th, 1911 - January 29th, 2001)

Maria Montez: Dominican actress
Marisa Pavan: Italian actress

Born to a wealthy French family, Jean-Pierre Aumont followed the calling of his actress mother at the age of sixteen, studying drama at the Paris Conservatory and eventually making his professional stage debut at twenty-one.

His film debut came one year later, in JEAN DE LA LUNE (1931), but his career-making role would come on the stage in the play of Jean Cocteau LA MACHINE INFERNAL, in 1934.

Just as his film and stage careers were burgeoning, Aumont up and joined the Free French forces in Tunisia, Italy, and France, ultimately earning the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre for his bravery.

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To escape of the Nazi occupation of France, Aumont moved to California in 1942, where he enjoyed a successful, if routine, film career.

J. P. Aumont during the funeral of Maria Montez

His love life was anything but routine--ever the stylish continental gentleman, the blo