Jeanne Stuart (13 August 1908 â€" 12 February 2003), born Ivy Sweet,
was a British stage and film actress.Using the stage name Jeanne
Stuart, she performed on the London stage, on Broadway, and in motion
pictures. She made her motion picture debut in 1931 and went on to
perform and star in more than twenty films.She was married in 1933 to
businessman Bernard Docker but their union lasted only a few months.
Docker's disapproving father had her followed by private detectives;
on discovering her association with actor David Hutcheson, allegedly
involving 'circumstances which left no doubt of their adultery',
Docker divorced her.After World War II, she moved to the United
States, taking up residence on Long Island. She met Baron Eugène
Daniel von Rothschild, a member of the Rothschild family and grandson
of Salomon Mayer von Rothschild of the Rothschild banking family of
Austria. They married in 1952, after which she gave up her acting
career. For a time, she and her husband lived in New York City and
Long Island but eventually made their permanent home in Monte Carlo,
Monaco.
was a British stage and film actress.Using the stage name Jeanne
Stuart, she performed on the London stage, on Broadway, and in motion
pictures. She made her motion picture debut in 1931 and went on to
perform and star in more than twenty films.She was married in 1933 to
businessman Bernard Docker but their union lasted only a few months.
Docker's disapproving father had her followed by private detectives;
on discovering her association with actor David Hutcheson, allegedly
involving 'circumstances which left no doubt of their adultery',
Docker divorced her.After World War II, she moved to the United
States, taking up residence on Long Island. She met Baron Eugène
Daniel von Rothschild, a member of the Rothschild family and grandson
of Salomon Mayer von Rothschild of the Rothschild banking family of
Austria. They married in 1952, after which she gave up her acting
career. For a time, she and her husband lived in New York City and
Long Island but eventually made their permanent home in Monte Carlo,
Monaco.
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