MILA PARELY

Original 10 inch by 8 1/8 inch Portrait of French actress MILA PARÉLY

Mila Parély (7 October 1917 – 14 January 2012), born Olga Colette Peszynski, 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 also worked with such notable directors as Max Ophüls, Robert Bresson, Fritz Lang and G.W. Pabst.

She gave up acting in the late 1950s in order to take care of her racing car driving husband Taso Mathieson, who had been injured in an accident. She returned to acting briefly in the late 1980s.

The portrait is in fine condition.