Maria Mauban

Maria Mauban was a French actress whose work spanned around fifty films and television series. She became known in 1950 with the British crime film Cairo Road and the Ealing Studios film Cage of Gold. Maria Mauban's nude scene comes from the later film Helle, released in 1972. She was born on May 10, 1924, in Marseille, France, and died on August 26, 2014. In 1954 she worked with the director Roberto Rossellini, one of the high points of her career. She was married first to the industrialist Jean Versini and later to the actor Claude Dauphin. She and Dauphin had two children, the actor Jean-Claude Dauphin and Elena Adriana Negru.