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A hauntingly beautiful blonde, Andrée Lafayette was awarded the starring role opposite John Barrymore's Svengali in Trilby (1923). It was certainly a spectacular role in a well-received film, but she only did one subsequent American screen production, the low-budget Why Get Married (1924), a marital drama starring, of all people, B-Western hero Jack Perrin. Returning to France, where she had begun her professional career after winning a beauty contest in her hometown of Aix-les-Bains, Lafayette later played Anne of Austria in a 1933 version of Les Trois Mousquetaires, Empress Eugenie opposite Pola Negri in Fanatisme (1934), and one of the courtesans in Abel Gance's La Dame aux Camélias (1934).