Sandra Ravel

Sandra Ravel
Those Three French Girls movie poster, with Yola d'Avril, Fifi D'Orsay, and Sandra Ravel (from left to right)
Born
Alessandra Winkelhauser Ratti

(1910-01-16)16 January 1910
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Died13 August 1954(1954-08-13) (aged 44)
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Other namesAlessandra Leverkusen
OccupationActress
Years active1930–1939 (film)
Spouse
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(m. 1944)​
ChildrenMaurizio Gucci

Sandra Ravel (16 January 1910 – 13 August 1954) was an Italian film actress of the 1930s.[1]

Biography

She was born as Alessandra Winkelhauser Ratti in Milan, Italy in 1910 to a German father who was a chemical plant worker, and a Swiss mother from the Ratti family of Lugano.[2]

Ravel had a minor role in Together in the Dark, where she met her future husband. She was married in 1944 in Venice to the actor and entrepreneur Rodolfo Gucci.[2][3] Their only child, Maurizio (1948-1995), was named for his father's theatrical alter ego, "Maurizio D'Ancora".[2]

Sandra Ravel died in 1954, aged 44, from uterine cancer in her native Lombardy.[4]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 118. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3.
  2. ^ a b c Forden, Sara G. (8 May 2012). The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed. Harper Collins. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-06-222267-1.
  3. ^ "Guccio Gucci". The Florentine. 17 June 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2020. married a German actress, Alessandra Leverkusen, known on the screen as Sandra Ravel
  4. ^ Gay Forden, Sara (2008). La saga dei Gucci. p. 74.
  5. ^ Eames, John Douglas (1 December 1988). The MGM story: the complete history of fifty roaring years. Crown Publishers. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-517-52613-2.
  6. ^ Mancini, Elaine (1985). Struggles of the Italian Film Industry During Fascism, 1930-1935. UMI Research Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-8357-1655-0.

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