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Annette Poivre

French actress (1917–1988)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ2851509
Source-derived summary

Annette Poivre (24 June 1917 – 2 June 1988) was a French stage and film actress. She was married to the actor Raymond Bussières with whom she sometimes co-starred. Poivre was noted for her comic performances.

Selected filmography

Premier rendez-vous (1941)

I Am with You (1943)

The White Waltz (1943)

Alone in the Night (1945)

The Ideal Couple (1946)

Devil and the Angel (1946)

Copie conforme (1947)

Mystery Trip (1947)

Rumours (1947)

Antoine and Antoinette (1947)

Mademoiselle Has Fun (1948)

The Cupboard Was Bare (1948)

Fandango (1949)

Five Red Tulips (1949)

Branquignol (1949)

I Like Only You (1949)

Street Without a King (1950)

The Little Zouave (1950)

The New Masters (1950)

Amédée (1950)

The Passerby (1951)

A Tale of Five Cities (1951)

The Passage of Venus (1951)

Moumou (1951)

My Wife, My Cow and Me (1952)

Soyez les bienvenus (1953)

Le Chevalier de la nuit (1953)

The Lottery of Happiness (1953)

The Enchanting Enemy (1953)

My Brother from Senegal (1953)

The Pirates of the Bois de Boulogne (1954)

My Priest Among the Poor (1956)

Gates of Paris (1957)

A Friend of the Family (1957)

Taxi, Roulotte et Corrida (1958)

Guinguette (1959)

The Girls of La Rochelle (1962)

Diamonds Are Brittle (1965)

The Curse of Belphegor (1967)

Macédoine (1971)

C'est pas moi, c'est lui (1980)

References

Bibliography

Hayward, Susan. Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign. Continuum, 2004.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Annette Poivre” is french actress (1917–1988). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Annette, Poivre and French, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1917, 1988, 1941, 1943—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Annette, Poivre and French is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “french actress (1917–1988)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2851509. The first chronological checks are 1917, 1988, 1941 and 1943.

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