Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Brigitte Auber

 [These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Brigitte Auber was born Marie-Claire Cahen de Labzac in Paris, France. She began her film career with a leading role in Jacques Becker's “Rendezvous” in July of 1949, and was known for roles in French films of the 1950s, including Julien Duvivier's romance “Under the Sky of Paris” (1951). Auber played the role of Danielle Foussard opposite Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock's “To Catch a Thief”, released in 1955.

In 1957 she was in a relationship with Alain Delon for a few months; they lived together in Paris. On the occasion of the 1957 Cannes Film Festival, she went with him to the French Riviera. In Cannes, Delon became friends with Jean-Claude Brialy and came into contact with the film industry, meeting his future agent George Beaume there, and was spotted by Henry Willson responsible for recruiting new talents on behalf of David O. Selznick.

Nearly a decade and a half later, Auber played the part of the elder Françoise in Claude de Givrays miniseries ‘Mauregard’ (1969). The young Françoise was played by another French Hitchcock actress, Claude Jade from Topaz. She also had a supporting role in “The Man in the Iron Mask”, the 1998 film adaptation of the novel The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas. Leonardo DiCaprio played Louis XIV of France and his twin, the Man in the Iron Mask, while Auber played the Queen mother's attendant.

Speaking to a reporter Lydia Lane in July 1954, Auber explained how she became an actress: “I started out to be a dancer, but at school I became so interested in dramatics I decided to became an actress instead. I still love to dance, it's my favourite exercise.”

Auber appeared in only one Euro-western as Huguette in 1949’s “Vengeance at Camargue”.

AUBER, Brigitte (Brigitte Cahen de Labzac) [4/27/1928, Paris, Ile-de-France, France –     ] – theater, film, TV actress.

Vengeance at Camargue – 1949 (Huguette)