Sandra Ravel

Sandra Ravel (16 January 1910 – 13 August 1954) was an Italian film actress of the 1930s.^[1]

Sandra Ravel
Those Three French Girls movie poster, with Yola d'Avril, Fifi D'Orsay, and Sandra Ravel (from left to right)
Born	Alessandra Winkelhauser Ratti (1910-01-16)16 January 1910 Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Died	13 August 1954(1954-08-13) (aged 44) Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Other names	Alessandra Leverkusen
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1930–1939 (film)
Spouse	Rodolfo Gucci ​ (m. 1944)​
Children	Maurizio Gucci

Biography

She was born as Alessandra Winkelhauser Ratti in Milan, Italy in 1910 to a German father who was a chemical plant worker, and a Swiss mother from the Ratti family of Lugano.^[2]

Ravel had a minor role in Together in the Dark, where she met her future husband. She was married in 1944 in Venice to the actor and entrepreneur Rodolfo Gucci.^[2][3] Their only child, Maurizio (1948-1995), was named for his father's theatrical alter ego, "Maurizio D'Ancora".^[2]

Sandra Ravel died in 1954, aged 44, from uterine cancer in her native Lombardy.^[4]

Filmography

• Mysterious Mr. Parkes (1930)
• Those Three French Girls (1930)^[5]
• War Nurse (1930)
• The Single Sin (1931)
• Paradise (1932)^[6]
• A Star Disappears (1932)
• Together in the Dark (1933)
• The House of Shame (1938)
• A Wife in Danger (1939)
• The Castle Ball (1939)
• Two Million for a Smile (1939)