Gabrielle Brune (12 February 1912 in Bournemouth, HampshireSince local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974, Bournemouth has been in Dorset – 18 January 2005 in Chichester, Sussex) was a British actress.
Career On stage from 1930, her work included appearances in cabaret, the West End, on Broadway, in films and on television.
Personal life Gabrielle Brune was born Gabrielle Hudson, the only child of Thomas Habgood Hudson and Adrienne Brune; both parents were theatre professionals from Australia. Her mother was an actress and singer.Ross Laird, Moanin' Low: A Discography of Female Popular Vocal Recordings, 1920-1933 (Greenwood Publishing 1996): 61. She used her mother's surname professionally.
In 1941, she was reported to be recovering from appendicitis and double pneumonia in a river house at Datchet on the Thames."River Holiday: Gabrielle Brune has been Convalescing at Datchet" The Tatler and Bystander (20 August 1941): 259.
Marriages In 1938, Brune was described as "Mrs. G. M. Thompson, wife of an English actor" in a news report about her first professional trip to America: (NB: Raymond Francis).Frank Reil, "Line on Liners" Brooklyn Daily Eagle (20 April 1938): 23. via Newspapers.com In 1942, she married an American Army officer, Maj. Walter J. Currie, in London."Wed in England" Advocate-Messenger (28 June 1942): 1. via Newspapers.com"Informally at Home: Gabrielle Brune, Actress Wife of Lieut.-Colonel Walter Currie, U. S. Army" The Tatler and Bystander (15 March 1944): 327.
She died on 18 January 2005, at the age of 92.
Selected filmography Red Pearls (1930) The Penny Pool (1937) The Wife of General Ling (1937) Garrison Follies (1940) He Found a Star (1941) Tomorrow We Live (1943) A Run for Your Money (1949) Mandy (1952) Hot Ice (1952) The Wedding of Lilli Marlene (1953) The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953) Three Steps to the Gallows (1953) The Harassed Hero (1954) Touch and Go (1955) Fun at St. Fanny's (1956) Girl in the Headlines (1963)
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