- Chevalier went to the United States for promoting the film Tabu and spent nearly a year there, appearing in the 1931 Broadway show of Ziegfeld Follies and visiting several Hollywood studios. From there, she went to Europe for Tabu's premiere in Berlin and also performed at dance shows in Paris and Warsaw.
- She was the seventh child to a Frenchman Laurence Chevalier and his Polynesian wife.
- Her father had eighteen children in total (other sources say there were twelve children), so Reri's (= Anne Chevalier) departure to the USA was a relief for the family (" Go, there will be one less mouth to feed " she heard from her mother, as she said in one of the interviews in 1933).
- In 1939, Arkady Fiedler visited Tahiti and sought out twenty-seven-year-old Reri. He described this meeting in the book 'Wiek male - victorious' (Wyd. Poznanskie, 1983). According to him, the woman was still pretty and alluring, but her attraction to alcohol left its mark on her, and she lost her slender figure. She drank from morning to evening.
- Chevalier's second film role was opposite Eugeniusz Bodo in the Polish romantic drama Black Pearl (1934). She played a Tahitian woman who marries a Polish sailor and becomes a dancing sensation in her quest to gain acceptance by her husband's society. Ohio state censor banned the film, citing their policy against interracial marriage.
- At age 16, Chevalier was spotted by German director F.W. Murnau who was looking for a Polynesian girl to play the lead role in his silent film Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931), whose story revolved around the fate of a couple when the young girl Reri is to be offered as a sacred maiden to Gods. Tabu has been lauded as "one of the last of the great silent films".
- She received education from a Catholic girls' school at Papeete.
- During her stay in Europe, Chevalier was romantically involved with her Black Pearl co-star Eugeniusz Bodo. Polish media even referred to her as his wife, but the couple soon separated and Chevalier returned to Tahiti.
- She made a brief appearance in John Ford's The Hurricane, another film set in the South Seas.
- Polish writer Anatol Stern recalls that Reri returned to Tahiti and married a modest clerk, but before doing so, she refused the hand of, among others, "a Dutch millionaire hotelier who chased her around the world.".
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