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- Birth nameLudovicu Brecher
- Louis Dolivet was born on March 26, 1908 in Transylvania, Austria-Hungary. He was a producer, known for Confidential Report (1955), My Uncle (1958) and The Female (1958). He was married to Beatrice Straight. He died on August 12, 1989 in London, England, UK.
- SpouseBeatrice Straight(February 21, 1942 - May 24, 1949) (divorced)
- His son, Willard Whitney Straight Dolivet, drowned on September 7, 1952, in a pond at the home of his mother. Dolivet had had to leave America a few years earlier because of alleged Communist sympathies, and was not permitted to return to the country for his son's funeral.
- He was an ardent anti-Nazi during the 1930s and spoke at an anti-Nazi rally held in Paris in 1937. Subsequently, he joined the French air force and, after the fall of France, escaped to America with the help of the American consul in Marseilles. He worked for the Free French throughout the war.
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