Mila Parély

Mila Parély
Born	(1917-10-07)7 October 1917 Paris, France
Died	14 January 2012(2012-01-14) (aged 94) Vichy, France
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1932–1991
Spouse	Thomas Alastair Sutherland Ogilvie Mathieson (1947–1991; his death)

Mila Parély (7 October 1917 – 14 January 2012) was a French actress of Polish ancestry best known for the roles of Félicie, Belle's eldest sister, in Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête (1946), and as Geneviève in La Règle du jeu (1939). She gave up acting in the late 1950s in order to take care of her race-car driving husband Taso Mathieson, who had been injured in an accident. She was engaged to the actor Jean Marais from 1942 to 1944, when they separated. Marais was the long-term lover of Jean Cocteau and her co-star in the latter's 1946 film version of Beauty And The Beast.

She also worked with such notable directors as Max Ophüls, Robert Bresson, Fritz Lang and G.W. Pabst. She returned to acting briefly in the late 1980s. Mila Parély died on 14 January 2012, aged 94, in Vichy, where she had spent the last fifty years of her life.

Filmography

• Compliments of Mister Flow (1936)
• Royal Waltz (1936)
• The Brighton Twins (1936)
• The Shanghai Drama (1938)
• The Rules of the Game (1939)
• They Were Twelve Women (1940)
• Le Lit à colonnes (1942)
• Le cavalier noir (1945)
• Beauty and the Beast (1946)
• Women's Games (1946)
• Star Without Light (1946)
• Dernier refuge (1947)
• Snowbound (1948)
• Mission in Tangier (1949)
• Blood Orange (1953)

External links

• Mila Parély at IMDb