Sad News to report Yvonne Monlaur has passed away....
She starred in the 1958 Italian film Three Strangers in Rome which was amongst Claudia Cardinale's earliest films and in 1960 in the horror film Circus of Horrors alongside prominent actors in British film such as Anton Diffring and Donald Pleasence. In 1960, she also starred in the Hammer horror film The Brides of Dracula alongside other noted British actors of the day Peter Cushing and Freda Jackson and in The Terror of the Tongs (1961) with Christopher Lee.
Monlaur screen tested for the role of Domino Derval in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. The role eventually went to another French actress, Claudine Auger. After a string of German and Italian films, Monlaur left films to
return to Paris. She continued to live there. Of late she has attended a
few film conventions, which have included salutes to Hammer films. News of her passing was press released on April 21st 2017. She
died on April 18, 2017, aged 77.
Yvonne Monlaur being helped with her costume, a suit of armor, on the
set of the film 'To Live and Die a Fascist', Rome, Italy, November 12th
1961.
Italian actor and comedian Nino Taranto, French actress Yvonne Monlaur
and Italian actor Maurizio Arena (Maurizio Di Lorenzo) gathered at the
Piazzetta of Capri in a scene from the film Avventura a Capri. Capri,
1958
