Louis Dolivet

Louis Dolivet born as Ludovici Udeanu was an migr writer, editor of Free World, film producer, and alleged Soviet spy born in AustriaHungary, who later obtained French citizenship. From 19421949, he was married to Academy Award and Tony Award winning actress Beatrice Whitney Straight, of the prominent American Whitney family.

Ludovic Brecher was born on March 26, 1908 in the AustroHungarian village of jradna, BeszterceNaszd County, now an, BistriaNsud County, Romania. He became known as Louis Dolivet upon arriving in New York on January 6, 1939. Dolivet claimed to have fought for the French Air Force against the Nazis, before escaping to Manhattan sometime either just before or after the Fall of France in June 1940. The Pittsburgh Press reported that Dolivet, on crutches because of a leg injury received shortly after France capitulated, spoke to a local gathering of the Foreign Policy Association in May 1941, where the former French air gunner painted a sorrowful picture of conditions in occupied France. On the same occasion, Dolivet described injuring himself not in battle, but rather in a shipboard fall en route from Europe.

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