Gwili Andre (born Gurli Ingeborg Elna Andresen, 4 February 1907 â€" 5
February 1959) was a Danish model and actress who had a brief career
in Hollywood films. (Another source gives her birth date as 4 February
1907.)Born in Frederiksberg, Andre had two sisters. Her parents were
Carl Axel Andresen b. 1880 and Emma Marie Ellen Sørensen Bruun b.
1884, they married in 1904. Her parents divorced, and her father
remarried in 1917.Andre came to Hollywood in the early 1930s with the
intention of establishing herself as a film star after working as
model in Europe. In 1930, she moved to New York City with her first
husband where she was reportedly spotted by David O. Selznick at the
premiere of a Broadway show. Selznick was taken by her beauty and
arranged for a screen test.
February 1959) was a Danish model and actress who had a brief career
in Hollywood films. (Another source gives her birth date as 4 February
1907.)Born in Frederiksberg, Andre had two sisters. Her parents were
Carl Axel Andresen b. 1880 and Emma Marie Ellen Sørensen Bruun b.
1884, they married in 1904. Her parents divorced, and her father
remarried in 1917.Andre came to Hollywood in the early 1930s with the
intention of establishing herself as a film star after working as
model in Europe. In 1930, she moved to New York City with her first
husband where she was reportedly spotted by David O. Selznick at the
premiere of a Broadway show. Selznick was taken by her beauty and
arranged for a screen test.
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