- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAnna Irma Ruahrei Chevalier
- Nickname
- Reri
- Anne Chevalier was born on December 18, 1912 in Papeete, Tahiti. She was an actress, known for Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931), Czarna perla (1934) and Submission (2020). She was married to Alexandre Gordon Bourgerie. She died on February 13, 1977 in Tahiti, French Polynesia.
- SpouseAlexandre Gordon Bourgerie(February 27, 1950 - June 13, 1958) (divorced)
- Chevalier went to the United States for promoting the film Tabu 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.
- She was the seventh child to a Frenchman Laurence Chevalier and his Polynesian wife.
- Her father had eighteen children in total (other sources say there were twelve children), so Reri's (= Anne Chevalier) departure to the USA was a relief for the family (" Go, there will be one less mouth to feed " she heard from her mother, as she said in one of the interviews in 1933).
- In 1939, Arkady Fiedler visited Tahiti and sought out twenty-seven-year-old Reri. He described this meeting in the book 'Wiek male - victorious' (Wyd. Poznanskie, 1983). According to him, the woman was still pretty and alluring, but her attraction to alcohol left its mark on her, and she lost her slender figure. She drank from morning to evening.
- 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.
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