| 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 |
| Died | 13 August 1954(1954-08-13) (aged 44) Milan, Lombardy, Italy |
| Other names | Alessandra Leverkusen |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1930–1939 (film) |
| Spouse |
Rodolfo Gucci (m. 1944) |
| Children | Maurizio Gucci |
Sandra Ravel (16 January 1910 – 13 August 1954) was an Italian film actress of the 1930s.
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.
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. Their only child, Maurizio (1948-1995), was named for his father's theatrical alter ego, "Maurizio D'Ancora".
Sandra Ravel died in 1954, aged 44, from uterine cancer in her native Lombardy.
Filmography
- Mysterious Mr. Parkes (1930)
- Those Three French Girls (1930)
- War Nurse (1930)
- The Single Sin (1931)
- Paradise (1932)
- A Star Disappears (1932)
- Together in the Dark (1933)
- The House of Shame (1938)
- A Wife in Danger (1939)
- The Castle Ball (1939)
- Two Million for a Smile (1939)
References
- Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 118. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3.
- ^ 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.
- "Guccio Gucci". The Florentine. 17 June 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
married a German actress, Alessandra Leverkusen, known on the screen as Sandra Ravel
- Gay Forden, Sara (2008). La saga dei Gucci. p. 74.
- 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.
- Mancini, Elaine (1985). Struggles of the Italian Film Industry During Fascism, 1930-1935. UMI Research Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-8357-1655-0.
Further reading
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
- Sandra Ravel at IMDb
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