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person_profile-Danièle Delorme

Danièle Delorme Died at age: 89

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Danièle Delorme

Date of Birth:

Oct 09, 1926

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Oct 17, 2015

Biography of

Danièle Delorme

    Gabrielle Danièle Marguerite Andrée Girard (9 October 1926 – 17 October 2015), known by her stage name Danièle Delorme, was a French actress and film producer, famous for her roles in films directed by Marc Allégret, Julien Duvivier or Yves Robert.

    Delorme was born in Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, one of four children to the well-known painter, poster-maker and theater-designer André Girard and his wife Andrée (nee Jouan). Girard maintained a studio in Venice in 1936–37 and in Manhattan in 1938. Back in France he was not called up in 1939. After the Battle of France, M. Girard removed to Antibes, then a free-zone and set up a network which provided recruiting and spying work for the French resistance. It was during this time that young Delorme began her acting career.

    In 1940 at the age of 14 Delorme began acting and played a series of minor roles before she began acting in film. Two years later, owing to her father's contacts, she was able at 16 years old (at the time using the name Danièle Girard) to secure a bit part in The Beautiful Adventure (La Belle aventure (1942)).

    Two years later director Marc Allégret again used Delorme, this time in a large role. This time she performed on the stage name she would use for the rest of her career, Danièl Delorme. One story developed that she took the name in order to hide from the Gestapo her relationship to her father. But the suggestion came from character actor Bernard Blier, who performed with her in her second film to take the name from the heroine of Victor Hugo's play Marion Delorme. (Delorme would co-star with Blier two decades later in the philosophical courtroom criminal drama, The Seventh Juror (Le septième juré (1962)).

    During the first decade of her career Delorme played delicate, demure, bright young women, roles for which she was physically fitted. Her first husband, Daniel Gélin, who also performed in The Beautiful Adventure, said she had "the face of a little girl, an upturned nose with passionate nostrils, the lips of a child, the body of a woman and a certain way about her that turns heads." Richard W. Seaver of the New York Times described her as "a winsome wisp of an actress, with her soft smile and grey eyes." These features finally landed her a breakthrough role in Miquette et sa mère (1949).

    Also notable was her performanace as femme fatale in Julien Duvivier's Voici le temps des assassin (1956) (Deadlier Than the Male in the US and Twelve Hours to Live in the UK), co-starring with Jean Gabin.

    In 1960 Delorme joined more than 140 intellectuals, teachers, writers and celebrities in signing a manifesto supporting the right of French conscripts to refuse military service in Algeria. As a result, the French government on 28 September issued a ban against all signatories from appearing on state-run radio or television or in state-run theaters. At the same time the information minister said that another cabinet order was in preparation that would deny government funding to any film project in which any signatory appeared. ...

    Source: Article "Danièle Delorme" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Filmography of

Danièle Delorme

Found 48 Movies in total

... 2005

Fall Out

Mrs. Germaine ( Actor )

... 1996

... 1992

... 1982

Break of Day

Colette ( Actor )

... 1980

... 1978

We Will All Meet in Paradise

Marthe Dorsay, Etienne's wife ( Actor )

... 1977

Pardon Mon Affaire

Marthe Dorsay ( Actor )

... 1976

Touch Me Not

Lilian ( Actor )

... 1974

Belle

Jeanne ( Actor )

... 1973

Repeated Absences

La mère de François ( Actor )

Producer

... 1972

The Crook

Janine ( Actor )

... 1970

The Bamboo Incident

l'infirmière française ( Actor )

... 1970

The Seventh Juror

Genviève Duval ( Actor )

... 1962

Cléo from 5 to 7

La Vendeuse de Fleurs / Actress in Silent Film ( Actor )

... 1962

Women's Prison

Alice Rémon ou Dumas ( Actor )

... 1958

Every Day Has Its Secret

Olga Lezcano ( Actor )

... 1958

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

Une admiratrice à la fête du village ( Actor )

... 1958

Les Misérables

Fantine ( Actor )

... 1958

Deadlier Than the Male

Catherine ( Actor )

... 1956

Black Dossier

Yvonne Dutoit ( Actor )

... 1955

No Exit

Florence ( Actor )

... 1954

House of Ricordi

Maria ( Actor )

... 1954

The Anatomy of Love

Mara ( Actor )

... 1954

Royal Affairs in Versailles

Louison Chabray ( Actor )

... 1954

The Healer

Isabelle Dancey ( Actor )

... 1953

... 1953

Les Dents longues

Eva Commandeur ( Actor )

... 1953

Venom and Eternity

Self ( Actor )

... 1952

Love, Madame

Self (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1952

Olivia

Une ancienne élève (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1951

Without Leaving an Address

Thérèse Ravenaz ( Actor )

... 1951

Lost Souvenirs

Danièle ( Actor )

... 1950

Bed for Two

Michèle ( Actor )

... 1950

Minne

Minne ( Actor )

... 1950

Miquette

Miquette ( Actor )

... 1950

Agnes of Nothing

Agnès ( Actor )

... 1950

Cage of Girls

Micheline ( Actor )

... 1949

Gigi

Gilberte dite 'Gigi' ( Actor )

... 1949

Impasse of Two Angels

Anne-Marie ( Actor )

... 1948

... 1948

The Chips Are Down

La noyée ( Actor )

... 1947

The J3

A student ( Actor )

... 1946

... 1946

Lunegarde

(uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1946

Twilight

La camarade de Félicie (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1944

The Little Ones of the Flower Platform

Bérénice Grimaud ( Actor )

... 1944

The Beautiful Adventure

Monique ( Actor )

... 1942