Background
He was born in Paris, France. He was married to Selena Royle, an actress and daughter of Edwin Milton Royle, author of The Squaw Manitoba, which was adapted for film and starred Cecil B. DeMille.
He was born in Paris, France. He was married to Selena Royle, an actress and daughter of Edwin Milton Royle, author of The Squaw Manitoba, which was adapted for film and starred Cecil B. DeMille.
While in Mexico, both Selena and Georges continued to be active in the arts and put out various cookbooks, including Pheasants for Peasants, A Gringa"s Guide to Mexican Cooking, and Guadalajara As I Know, Live lieutenant, Love lieutenant His first American film appearance was in The Seven Sisters (1915). Fourteen years later, Renavent played an impressive starring role as the Kinkajou in the musical spectacular, Rio Rita (1929).
Rio Rita was based on a 1927 stage musical by Florenz Ziegfeld, which originally united Wheeler and Woolsey as a team and made them famous.
In 1929, Radio Pictures, later known as Radio-Keith-Orpheum Radio Pictures, purchased the film rights to this musical. The last portion of the film was photographed in Technicolor.
Renavent also starred in East of Borneo (1931), which was one of the most frequently telecast films of the 1950s and 1960s. East of Borneo starred Rose Hobart as Linda, the wife of African missionary Doctor Clark (Charles Bickford). whom she finds he"s been living in luxury as court physician of the Prince of Marudu (Renavent).
When Cornell screened the film, Salvador Dalí was in attendance.
Dalí was incensed that Cornell had created such a masterpiece before he could. In 1936, Renavent played opposite Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in The Invisible Ray (1936). He appeared in Hal Roach"s Turnabout (1940).
His final film was made in 1952, when he played Ortega in Mara Maru, with Errol Flynn.
Renavent also ran his own American Grand Guignol and was involved in many Broadway plays in New New York Renavent died in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1969.
They left the United States to live in Mexico after Selena was unfairly entangled in the McCarthy era Communism investigations and Hollywood blacklist.