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Born in 1914, Yvonne York was the oldest child of a German immigrant family in Pennsylvania. Although she had yet to dye her hair platinum, she was still striking and had always possessed that doe-like gaze, which later become her trademark. Before fame she worked at textile factory, using her meager paycheck to support her parents. It was on a trip to New York to visit her aunt that she was spotted, soon finding work as a model, and eventually, an actress. Her first big role came in 1935, when she starred in "The Unloving Heart". Though her name at birth was Martha Rosenbaum, the studios decided to give her something more star-worthy.
Her Family:
DH: Johannes Ernst Rosenbaum
DW: Minna Luise Rosenbaum (née Schön)
DD: (Her) Martha Hildegarde Rosenbaum
DD: Goldie Ingeborg Rosenbaum
DS: Erich Curt Rosenbaum
DD/DS: Christa Hannelore Rosenbaum & Wolfgang Peter Rosenbaum
___
Soon after, Yvonne York became a household name, starring box-office hit after hit. One of her most memorable roles would be as the seductive Madame Veruschka in the classic noir film "As the Night Fades". In 1940 at age twenty-six, she was married to fellow actor, Leslie Hepburn, who she met on the set of her 1939 romance film, "Forget Me Not." He was eight years her senior. They were the perfect Hollywood couple, her with her perfect blonde curls and willowy figure, him with his dark hair, blue eyes, and smoky baritone. Just seven months after their marriage, Yvonne would give birth to a baby girl, much to the tabloids shock. Only three years later, Yvonne would file for a divorce. The court proceedings were splashed across the news, and filled with every sordid detail, from the mistresses to the drugs and Yvonne's supposed alcoholism. Despite it all, she would win full custody of her child.
DH: Leslie Curtis Hepburn
DW: Yvonne York
DD1: Levonne Minna Hepburn
____
In 1940 at age 31, Yvonne York would go on to win an Oscar for her portrayal of a heartbroken wife who combs the beach, looking for the husband she lost at sea in “Never Say Goodbye”. In her speech she thanked her parents for teaching her how to work hard, her daughter, for bring light into her life, and, to the gasps of the audience, her ex-husband for teaching her how to take a punch. Later in an interview, she would recount how her first marriage was “fueled by liquor and jealousy”, and how it was her daughter who gave her strength to leave her abusive relationship.
In 1945, Yvonne York would go on to star in a romantic comedy “The Long Engagement”, opposite Italian heartthrob, Tomas Bertolini. After dating for only half a year, they would get married in his hometown of Venice, Italy. Paparazzi fought to get a snap of the bride’s dress, made entirely of Venetian lace, or her twenty-inch train. Her new husband was known for his charm, his accent, and the fact he could speak five languages: Italian, English, French, Spanish, and German. In 1947, Yvonne would become a mother again to boy-girl twins. Yvonne and Tomas were together five years, before calling it quits due to “irreconcilable differences”. Luckily, the two remained good friends, and their children would spend their summers in Venice, with their father.
DH: Tomas Nico Bertolini
DW: Yvonne York
DD2/DS1: Flavia Antonella Bertolini & Dante Francesco Bertolini
___
In 1951, Yvonne York celebrated her fortieth birthday in Provence, where she had recently renovated a Chateau. She was born a day before Christmas, and wore a beautiful red Dior dress and holly in her hair. The Chateau had four real trees and presents for everyone, including her beloved greyhounds, Zeus and Hippolyta. Yvonne’s gift to herself was a new car; a black Cadillac Coupe deVille.
Taking a short break from acting, Yvonne York spent her years between France, England, and Italy. On a rainy day in London, she met a striking young woman in gorgeous Chanel ensemble, giggling without a care in the world that she was being soaked through. They ducked into a quiet café and shared cups and cups of tea, and their life stories. Marie-Angélique was an up-and-coming singer, known for her soulful rendition of "We’ll Meet Again." She was Senegalese-French, her father having fought for France during WWI in the Senegalese Tirailleurs; her mother was a seamstress from Hauts-de-France who had moved to Paris to work for a reputable modiste. Yvonne had never before felt such love for a person, besides her children, and eventually realized her feelings were reciprocated. Yvonne and Marie-Angélique were well-known amongst “The Sewing Circle”, a group of Old Hollywood actresses who were openly (as openly as one could be at that time) Lesbian and Bisexual. Among them were such greats as Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich (who had long been rumored to have been more than just friends with Yvonne), Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, and Katharine Hepburn.
Marie-Angélique would go on to move in with Yvonne at the chateau in 1953, were they would host lavish parties, filled with champagne and smoke, and the keenest minds of the time-period. No evening would be complete without Yvonne accompanying Marie-Angélique on the piano as she sung her latest hits. Eventually, Yvonne would even adopt five-year-old twin girls, which was quite unusual for the time, and though it couldn’t be said legally, it was known that they raised them together. They were together for six years, until Marie-Angélique would lose her beloved father to a long battle with cancer. She needed time alone and moved to London to record a new album. Yvonne was heartbroken by her decision but didn’t let it get in the way of supporting her long-time love and their children.
DW: Marie-Angélique Edmonde Mandeleau
DW: Yvonne York
DD3/DD4: Elise Mireille York & Eugénie Augustine York
___
By 1955 Yvonne York was ready to return to Hollywood. At forty-four, roles were drying up for the starlet, but when she starred in a star-studded adaption of Macbeth, as Lady Macbeth, she was back on the market. It was a huge hit and cemented her popularity, despite her age. For her role she would win her second Oscar. Yvonn wowed the audience in her sleek black and green Charles James dress.
Shortly after, Yvonne would act in another epic film, called "Tipperary", where she would meet her next love, the young director of the film. Born into a Russian family in New York, Andreii Dorfman was ten years her junior, and some thought much too plain for such a glamorous woman. With curly auburn hair, a love of turtlenecks, and his iconic round black glasses, they seemed an odd match. But in an interview with Vogue, Yvonne clarified it was his heart that had attracted her, plus a common affection for animals. For their one-year anniversary Andreii gave her a pair of Persian kittens named Snow and Fleur.
After only being together for only two short years, Yvonne found out she was pregnant. A lavish wedding was planned, one that would take place in Barcelona and see the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Dean Martin in attendance. Unfortunately, it would all come to a standstill when Andreii would die tragically in a plane crash, leaving Yvonne pregnant and alone. The story of their doomed love was front-page news, and Yvonne would be the recipient of countless letters of condolences, well-wishes, and prayers.
The studios were not pleased to have their star pregnant and unmarried, and soon Yvonne would find herself relegated to bit parts and guest appearances on TV shows. She would retire officially from acting in 1960, moving back to her chateau in Provence, where she would write a bestselling biography on her life, called "The Show Must Go On". Her later years were marked by animal activism, and charitable work -- she would auction off several of her famous dresses for a local French hospital in '65 -- and the rare interviews, mostly conducted in her 19th century style kitchen, or herb garden. In 1970 Yvonne would reunite with her former love, the jazz singer Marie-Angélique, and they would spend the rest of their lives together. Yvonne would live on to just two weeks shy of her 100th birthday, surrounded by her family and loved ones, her animals, her memories, a photo of her son, lost in Cambodia, and the man who almost became her husband.
DBF: Andreii Nikita Dorfman
DGF: Yvonne York
DD: Cleo Milana Dorfman
___
Despite Levonne Hepburn playing a younger version of her mother's character in "Betty", she would eventually shun the fast-paced and, in her own words, "shallow" lifestyle of Hollywood. Levonne became a well-respected OB/GYN in New York, and married a pediatrician. After years of resentment between the two, Yvonne and Levonne rekindled their relationship via the birth of Levonne's first child. Now, they maintain a friendship, and spend the holidays together.
DH: Jacob Noam Goldschimdt
DD1: Levonne Minna Hepburn
DS: Joseph Refael Goldschimdt
DD: Esther Rivka Goldschimdt
DD: Miriam Shoshannah Goldschimdt
___
Unlike Levonne Hepburn, Flavia Bertolini would thrive in the spotlight. With her thick black hair, green eyes, and Patrician nose – all curtesy of her father – she would become something of a sex symbol after her film debut in 1966 at the tender age of nineteen. The film, "October Dawn", is a cult classic made with an all-European cast and shot in English. She would go on to star in several more Giallo films, to model for Vogue, and to eventually marry the frontman of the Brit-rock band “Ned Kelley”, Joey Morris. They are one of the longest enduring couples of Hollywood, and the parents of four children.
DH: Joey John-Paul Morris
DW: Flavia Antonella Bertolini
DS: Maverick Damiano Tomas Morris
DS: Noel Philip Huxley Morris
DD: Isadora Flavia Winter Morris
DD: Bianca Martina Sloane Morris
___
Dante Bertolini would become a photojournalist for Time Magazine. He and his long-time girlfriend, Mary-Jo Fairchild, were planning on getting married in 1972 when he went missing in Cambodia, thought to be captured by communist guerillas. He was never seen, or heard from, again. Later, his mother would have him declared dead in absentia. It was one of the hardest times in Yvonne’s life, and she would never speak of him publicly again. His girlfriend was only two months pregnant with their child, a little girl, when he disappeared.
DS1: Dante Francesco Bertolini
DW: Mary-Jo Delores Fairchild
DD: Jacqueline Hope Bertolini
___
Elise York would become a smoky-voiced chanteuse like her mother, known most popularly for singing the theme song for the James Bond film, "Oceans Deep", in 1973 at twenty-five. She would never marry, but had two long term relationships, one with a French-Algerian model, Lucien Fekir, who was the male face of Gucci for over fifteen-years; their relationship lasted from 1972 to 1978. They had a son together. Her most recent is with British art-house director, George Wright. Together, they had a baby girl.
DBF1: Lucien Mohammad Fekir
DGF: Elise York
DS: Jerome Walid Fekir
DBF2: George Leonard Wright
DGF: Elise York
DD: Helena Poppy Wright
___
Eugénie York would become a chef whose German, West African, and French fusions had celebrities like Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, France Gall, and Jean-Paul Belmondo coming back again and again. Her original restaurant called "Köstlich”, was happily situated in bustling Paris, but now there is one in Hollywood, London, and even Tokyo. She married her sous-chef and they had four amazing children, who have inherited their parents’ love of food.
DH: Imbrahim Yossou Sembène
DW: Eugénie Augustine Sembène (née York)
DS: Lionel Jean-Luc Sembène
DS/DD: René Dorian Sembène & Eleanore Mame-Anne Sembène
DD: Brigitte Armella Sembène
___
Cleo Dorfman would be a media darling from the moment she was born, and they would closely follow her, from the time she was in pink dresses and bobby-socks to her troubled adolescence, which consisted of drugs, alcohol and much-older boyfriends. One of those boyfriends encouraged her to start singing. Cleo would form an all-girl rock band called "Cherub" that would shock audiences with their dark lyrics and onstage antics. While the band only lasted a few short years -- from '79 to '83 -- they would forever be icons for punk girls everywhere.
Cleo would have a prosperous solo-career, and a famously rocky marriage with music producer, Jules Rawlins. The marriage lasted ten-years -- ten-years filled with domestic assault allegations, hard-drinking, and affairs. They had two children, and Cleo would lose custody to her husband. Finally, after so many years of hard-living and chaotic episodes, Cleo would go to rehab and stay sober for fifteen years, until her untimely death from lung cancer at fifty-five. A photograph of her, with her flaming red-hair and kohl-streaked eyes, belting out one of her songs, would become a bestselling image and adorn the walls of angst-ridden teens everywhere.
DD5: Cleo Milana Dorfman
DexH: Jules Samson Rawlins
DS/DS: Jet Addison & Vance Desmond Rawlins
Her Family:
DH: Johannes Ernst Rosenbaum
DW: Minna Luise Rosenbaum (née Schön)
DD: (Her) Martha Hildegarde Rosenbaum
DD: Goldie Ingeborg Rosenbaum
DS: Erich Curt Rosenbaum
DD/DS: Christa Hannelore Rosenbaum & Wolfgang Peter Rosenbaum
___
Soon after, Yvonne York became a household name, starring box-office hit after hit. One of her most memorable roles would be as the seductive Madame Veruschka in the classic noir film "As the Night Fades". In 1940 at age twenty-six, she was married to fellow actor, Leslie Hepburn, who she met on the set of her 1939 romance film, "Forget Me Not." He was eight years her senior. They were the perfect Hollywood couple, her with her perfect blonde curls and willowy figure, him with his dark hair, blue eyes, and smoky baritone. Just seven months after their marriage, Yvonne would give birth to a baby girl, much to the tabloids shock. Only three years later, Yvonne would file for a divorce. The court proceedings were splashed across the news, and filled with every sordid detail, from the mistresses to the drugs and Yvonne's supposed alcoholism. Despite it all, she would win full custody of her child.
DH: Leslie Curtis Hepburn
DW: Yvonne York
DD1: Levonne Minna Hepburn
____
In 1940 at age 31, Yvonne York would go on to win an Oscar for her portrayal of a heartbroken wife who combs the beach, looking for the husband she lost at sea in “Never Say Goodbye”. In her speech she thanked her parents for teaching her how to work hard, her daughter, for bring light into her life, and, to the gasps of the audience, her ex-husband for teaching her how to take a punch. Later in an interview, she would recount how her first marriage was “fueled by liquor and jealousy”, and how it was her daughter who gave her strength to leave her abusive relationship.
In 1945, Yvonne York would go on to star in a romantic comedy “The Long Engagement”, opposite Italian heartthrob, Tomas Bertolini. After dating for only half a year, they would get married in his hometown of Venice, Italy. Paparazzi fought to get a snap of the bride’s dress, made entirely of Venetian lace, or her twenty-inch train. Her new husband was known for his charm, his accent, and the fact he could speak five languages: Italian, English, French, Spanish, and German. In 1947, Yvonne would become a mother again to boy-girl twins. Yvonne and Tomas were together five years, before calling it quits due to “irreconcilable differences”. Luckily, the two remained good friends, and their children would spend their summers in Venice, with their father.
DH: Tomas Nico Bertolini
DW: Yvonne York
DD2/DS1: Flavia Antonella Bertolini & Dante Francesco Bertolini
___
In 1951, Yvonne York celebrated her fortieth birthday in Provence, where she had recently renovated a Chateau. She was born a day before Christmas, and wore a beautiful red Dior dress and holly in her hair. The Chateau had four real trees and presents for everyone, including her beloved greyhounds, Zeus and Hippolyta. Yvonne’s gift to herself was a new car; a black Cadillac Coupe deVille.
Taking a short break from acting, Yvonne York spent her years between France, England, and Italy. On a rainy day in London, she met a striking young woman in gorgeous Chanel ensemble, giggling without a care in the world that she was being soaked through. They ducked into a quiet café and shared cups and cups of tea, and their life stories. Marie-Angélique was an up-and-coming singer, known for her soulful rendition of "We’ll Meet Again." She was Senegalese-French, her father having fought for France during WWI in the Senegalese Tirailleurs; her mother was a seamstress from Hauts-de-France who had moved to Paris to work for a reputable modiste. Yvonne had never before felt such love for a person, besides her children, and eventually realized her feelings were reciprocated. Yvonne and Marie-Angélique were well-known amongst “The Sewing Circle”, a group of Old Hollywood actresses who were openly (as openly as one could be at that time) Lesbian and Bisexual. Among them were such greats as Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich (who had long been rumored to have been more than just friends with Yvonne), Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, and Katharine Hepburn.
Marie-Angélique would go on to move in with Yvonne at the chateau in 1953, were they would host lavish parties, filled with champagne and smoke, and the keenest minds of the time-period. No evening would be complete without Yvonne accompanying Marie-Angélique on the piano as she sung her latest hits. Eventually, Yvonne would even adopt five-year-old twin girls, which was quite unusual for the time, and though it couldn’t be said legally, it was known that they raised them together. They were together for six years, until Marie-Angélique would lose her beloved father to a long battle with cancer. She needed time alone and moved to London to record a new album. Yvonne was heartbroken by her decision but didn’t let it get in the way of supporting her long-time love and their children.
DW: Marie-Angélique Edmonde Mandeleau
DW: Yvonne York
DD3/DD4: Elise Mireille York & Eugénie Augustine York
___
By 1955 Yvonne York was ready to return to Hollywood. At forty-four, roles were drying up for the starlet, but when she starred in a star-studded adaption of Macbeth, as Lady Macbeth, she was back on the market. It was a huge hit and cemented her popularity, despite her age. For her role she would win her second Oscar. Yvonn wowed the audience in her sleek black and green Charles James dress.
Shortly after, Yvonne would act in another epic film, called "Tipperary", where she would meet her next love, the young director of the film. Born into a Russian family in New York, Andreii Dorfman was ten years her junior, and some thought much too plain for such a glamorous woman. With curly auburn hair, a love of turtlenecks, and his iconic round black glasses, they seemed an odd match. But in an interview with Vogue, Yvonne clarified it was his heart that had attracted her, plus a common affection for animals. For their one-year anniversary Andreii gave her a pair of Persian kittens named Snow and Fleur.
After only being together for only two short years, Yvonne found out she was pregnant. A lavish wedding was planned, one that would take place in Barcelona and see the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Dean Martin in attendance. Unfortunately, it would all come to a standstill when Andreii would die tragically in a plane crash, leaving Yvonne pregnant and alone. The story of their doomed love was front-page news, and Yvonne would be the recipient of countless letters of condolences, well-wishes, and prayers.
The studios were not pleased to have their star pregnant and unmarried, and soon Yvonne would find herself relegated to bit parts and guest appearances on TV shows. She would retire officially from acting in 1960, moving back to her chateau in Provence, where she would write a bestselling biography on her life, called "The Show Must Go On". Her later years were marked by animal activism, and charitable work -- she would auction off several of her famous dresses for a local French hospital in '65 -- and the rare interviews, mostly conducted in her 19th century style kitchen, or herb garden. In 1970 Yvonne would reunite with her former love, the jazz singer Marie-Angélique, and they would spend the rest of their lives together. Yvonne would live on to just two weeks shy of her 100th birthday, surrounded by her family and loved ones, her animals, her memories, a photo of her son, lost in Cambodia, and the man who almost became her husband.
DBF: Andreii Nikita Dorfman
DGF: Yvonne York
DD: Cleo Milana Dorfman
___
Despite Levonne Hepburn playing a younger version of her mother's character in "Betty", she would eventually shun the fast-paced and, in her own words, "shallow" lifestyle of Hollywood. Levonne became a well-respected OB/GYN in New York, and married a pediatrician. After years of resentment between the two, Yvonne and Levonne rekindled their relationship via the birth of Levonne's first child. Now, they maintain a friendship, and spend the holidays together.
DH: Jacob Noam Goldschimdt
DD1: Levonne Minna Hepburn
DS: Joseph Refael Goldschimdt
DD: Esther Rivka Goldschimdt
DD: Miriam Shoshannah Goldschimdt
___
Unlike Levonne Hepburn, Flavia Bertolini would thrive in the spotlight. With her thick black hair, green eyes, and Patrician nose – all curtesy of her father – she would become something of a sex symbol after her film debut in 1966 at the tender age of nineteen. The film, "October Dawn", is a cult classic made with an all-European cast and shot in English. She would go on to star in several more Giallo films, to model for Vogue, and to eventually marry the frontman of the Brit-rock band “Ned Kelley”, Joey Morris. They are one of the longest enduring couples of Hollywood, and the parents of four children.
DH: Joey John-Paul Morris
DW: Flavia Antonella Bertolini
DS: Maverick Damiano Tomas Morris
DS: Noel Philip Huxley Morris
DD: Isadora Flavia Winter Morris
DD: Bianca Martina Sloane Morris
___
Dante Bertolini would become a photojournalist for Time Magazine. He and his long-time girlfriend, Mary-Jo Fairchild, were planning on getting married in 1972 when he went missing in Cambodia, thought to be captured by communist guerillas. He was never seen, or heard from, again. Later, his mother would have him declared dead in absentia. It was one of the hardest times in Yvonne’s life, and she would never speak of him publicly again. His girlfriend was only two months pregnant with their child, a little girl, when he disappeared.
DS1: Dante Francesco Bertolini
DW: Mary-Jo Delores Fairchild
DD: Jacqueline Hope Bertolini
___
Elise York would become a smoky-voiced chanteuse like her mother, known most popularly for singing the theme song for the James Bond film, "Oceans Deep", in 1973 at twenty-five. She would never marry, but had two long term relationships, one with a French-Algerian model, Lucien Fekir, who was the male face of Gucci for over fifteen-years; their relationship lasted from 1972 to 1978. They had a son together. Her most recent is with British art-house director, George Wright. Together, they had a baby girl.
DBF1: Lucien Mohammad Fekir
DGF: Elise York
DS: Jerome Walid Fekir
DBF2: George Leonard Wright
DGF: Elise York
DD: Helena Poppy Wright
___
Eugénie York would become a chef whose German, West African, and French fusions had celebrities like Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, France Gall, and Jean-Paul Belmondo coming back again and again. Her original restaurant called "Köstlich”, was happily situated in bustling Paris, but now there is one in Hollywood, London, and even Tokyo. She married her sous-chef and they had four amazing children, who have inherited their parents’ love of food.
DH: Imbrahim Yossou Sembène
DW: Eugénie Augustine Sembène (née York)
DS: Lionel Jean-Luc Sembène
DS/DD: René Dorian Sembène & Eleanore Mame-Anne Sembène
DD: Brigitte Armella Sembène
___
Cleo Dorfman would be a media darling from the moment she was born, and they would closely follow her, from the time she was in pink dresses and bobby-socks to her troubled adolescence, which consisted of drugs, alcohol and much-older boyfriends. One of those boyfriends encouraged her to start singing. Cleo would form an all-girl rock band called "Cherub" that would shock audiences with their dark lyrics and onstage antics. While the band only lasted a few short years -- from '79 to '83 -- they would forever be icons for punk girls everywhere.
Cleo would have a prosperous solo-career, and a famously rocky marriage with music producer, Jules Rawlins. The marriage lasted ten-years -- ten-years filled with domestic assault allegations, hard-drinking, and affairs. They had two children, and Cleo would lose custody to her husband. Finally, after so many years of hard-living and chaotic episodes, Cleo would go to rehab and stay sober for fifteen years, until her untimely death from lung cancer at fifty-five. A photograph of her, with her flaming red-hair and kohl-streaked eyes, belting out one of her songs, would become a bestselling image and adorn the walls of angst-ridden teens everywhere.
DD5: Cleo Milana Dorfman
DexH: Jules Samson Rawlins
DS/DS: Jet Addison & Vance Desmond Rawlins
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