# Raymonde Allain

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**Raymonde Allain** (22 June 1912 – 27 July 2008) was a French [model](/source/Model_(people)) and [actress](/source/Actress).[1] She was [Miss France](/source/Miss_France) in 1928.[2] Her participation in the [Miss Universe](/source/1928_International_Pageant_of_Pulchritude) contest drew international media attention,[3] and her controversial loss to American [Ella Van Hueson](/source/Ella_Van_Hueson) prompted critical dispute over what counted as "real beauty".[4] Allain later wrote an autobiography titled *Histoire vraie d'un prix de beauté*.

## Selected filmography

- *[Nothing But Lies](/source/Nothing_But_Lies_(1933_film))* (1933) as Angèle
- *[The Tunnel](/source/The_Tunnel_(1933_French-language_film))* (1933) as Ethel Lloyd
- *[The Pearls of the Crown](/source/The_Pearls_of_the_Crown)* (1937) as [L'impératrice Eugénie](/source/Eug%C3%A9nie_de_Montijo)
- *[The Paris Waltz](/source/The_Paris_Waltz)* (1950) again as L'impératrice Eugénie

## Bibliography

- *Histoire vraie d'un prix de beauté*, Gallimard, 1933, OCLC [9860441](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9860441)

## References

1. Goble, Alan (1999). *The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film*. Walter de Gruyter. p. 168.

1. Storme, Kévin (December 14, 2018). ["Concours. La Bretagne, terre de Miss"](https://www.letelegramme.fr/histoire/concours-la-bretagne-terre-de-miss-09-12-2018-12155520.php) (in French). *[Le Télégramme](/source/Le_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9gramme)*. Retrieved January 7, 2018.

1. Grout, Holly (May 13, 2015). *The Force of Beauty: Transforming French Ideas of Femininity in the Third Republic*. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 9780807159903.

1. "Paris Quarrels over Milady Beautiful". *[Washington Post](/source/Washington_Post)*. July 8, 1928.

## External links

- [Raymonde Allain](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0019856/) at IMDb

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