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- Birth nameSimone Lebon
- Yvette Lebon was born on August 14, 1910 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Michel Strogoff (1936), Paméla (1945) and Ulysses Against Hercules (1962). She was married to Nat Wachsberger and Roger Duchesne. She died on July 28, 2014 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- SpousesNat Wachsberger(February 20, 1948 - February 1, 1992) (his death, 1 child)Roger Duchesne(1944 - ?) (divorced)
- Mother of Patrick Wachsberger.
- She studied dance and painting and found occasional work as a film extra.
- Following her marriage to producer Nat Wachsberger, she appeared in several swashbuckler and sword-and-sandal films in Italy, playing grandes dames and goddesses rather than the ingénues of yore.
- Yvette Lebon was the dean of French actresses and actors, ahead of Renée Simonot (1911-2021). She died in Cannes (France), but her funeral took place in Hollywood ( California ) where her son works and lives.
- During World War II, she was the mistress of Jean Luchaire, a French journalist and press baron executed after the war for collaboration with France's German occupiers.
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