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person_profile-Yolande Donlan

Yolande Donlan Age: 105

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Yolande Donlan

Date of Birth:

Jun 02, 1920

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

Yolande Donlan

    Yolande Donlan (born June 2, 1920 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American actress who has worked extensively in the United Kingdom.

    She is the daughter of James Donlan, who was a hard working character actor in Hollywood films of the 1930s. It is thought that she had some uncredited roles in films including Pennies From Heaven and Love Finds Andy Hardy immediately following her father's death in 1938, but these have not been confirmed.

    Her early credited roles include Frenchy the maid in the horror film The Devil Bat in 1940 and she followed this up with several small roles, generally as similar French-accented maid characters.

    A notable stage success as Billie Dawn in a Boston production of Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin was the start of bigger things for Donlan. The production transferred to London's West End for a long run. Donlan was initially denied a work permit to star in the lead in Peter Pan due to complaints from Actors Equity who felt that a British star should have the lead.

    After it ended, Donlan remained in the United Kingdom and began accepting film work. After Traveller's Joy in 1949, Donlan worked for the director Val Guest in several films including Mister Drake's Duck, Penny Princess (in the title role) and The Body Said No.

    Donlan married Guest in 1954 and afterwards her film work included many of her husband's films such as Expresso Bongo and 80,000 Suspects, as well as a small number of films for other directors. In 1955 she penned the autobiographical travelogue, Sand in my Mink an amusing tale of adventures taken with her husband, across Europe, which makes a light hearted read of how travel used to be.

    A further stage success came in 1959 in Jack Popplewell's And Suddenly It's Spring opposite Margaret Lockwood.

    Her most recent film credit is Seven Nights in Japan from 1976. The same year saw publication of her autobiography, Shake the Stars Down, which concentrates on her childhood years growing up in the Hollywood of the 1930s.

    Guest retired from directing in 1985 and the couple moved back to the United States of America in the late 1980s, where they resided in Palm Springs until his death in 2006. Donlan now lives in Belgravia, London.

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Filmography of

Yolande Donlan

Found 16 Movies in total

Seven Nights in Japan

American Wife ( Actor )

... 1976

The Adventurers

Mrs. Erickson ( Actor )

... 1970

80,000 Suspects

Ruth Preston ( Actor )

... 1963

Jigsaw

Jean Sherman ( Actor )

... 1962

Expresso Bongo

Dixie Collins ( Actor )

... 1959

Tarzan and the Lost Safari

Gamage Dean ( Actor )

... 1957

They Can't Hang Me

Jill Wilson ( Actor )

... 1955

Penny Princess

Lindy Smith ( Actor )

... 1952

Mr. Drake's Duck

Penny Drake ( Actor )

... 1951

Traveller's Joy

Lil Fowler ( Actor )

... 1950

Miss Pilgrim's Progress

Laramie Pilgrim ( Actor )

... 1949

Under Age

Lily Fletcher ( Actor )

... 1941

The Devil Bat

Maxine ( Actor )

... 1940

Dark Streets of Cairo

Maggie Malone, aka Margo Molina ( Actor )

... 1940

Cross-Country Romance

Jennie ( Actor )

... 1940

Turnabout

Marie (as Yolande Mollot) ( Actor )

... 1940