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Danièle Delorme

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.

Personal information

Birthday

1926-10-09

Birth Place

Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Movies and TV shows :

Agnes of Nothing

Agnes of Nothing

1950

5.8

Movie
Bed for Two

Bed for Two

1950

6.0

Movie
Belle

Belle

1973

5.6

Movie
Black Dossier

Black Dossier

1955

6.1

Movie
Brasil

Brasil

1950

6.0

Movie
Break of Day

Break of Day

1980

6.1

Movie
Cage of Girls

Cage of Girls

1949

0.0

Movie
poster

Cinépanorama

1956

8.0

TV
Cléo from 5 to 7

Cléo from 5 to 7

1962

7.7

Movie
Cruise for the Unknown One

Cruise for the Unknown One

1948

5.8

Movie
Deadlier Than the Male

Deadlier Than the Male

1956

7.1

Movie
Desperate Decision

Desperate Decision

1952

5.3

Movie
Every Day Has Its Secret

Every Day Has Its Secret

1958

5.0

Movie
Fall Out

Fall Out

1996

3.7

Movie
Femmes de Paris

Femmes de Paris

1953

6.5

Movie
Gigi

Gigi

1949

5.7

Movie
House of Ricordi

House of Ricordi

1954

6.2

Movie
Impasse of Two Angels

Impasse of Two Angels

1948

5.6

Movie
poster

L'Affaire Saint-Romans

1988

0.0

TV
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour

La Barricade du Point-du-Jour

1978

0.0

Movie
Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent

Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent

1946

0.0

Movie
poster

Le Grand Échiquier

1972

8.0

TV
Le Pèlerinage

Le Pèlerinage

1962

7.0

Movie
Les Dents longues

Les Dents longues

1953

5.4

Movie
Les Misérables

Les Misérables

1958

7.1

Movie
Lost Souvenirs

Lost Souvenirs

1950

5.5

Movie
Love, Madame

Love, Madame

1952

2.5

Movie
Lunegarde

Lunegarde

1946

1.0

Movie
poster

Mafiosa

2006

7.3

TV
Marie Soleil

Marie Soleil

1964

0.0

Movie
poster

Midi trente

1972

6.0

TV
Minne

Minne

1950

5.8

Movie
Miquette

Miquette

1950

5.3

Movie
Mitsou

Mitsou

1956

3.0

Movie
Neither Seen Nor Recognized

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

1958

6.9

Movie
No Exit

No Exit

1954

6.0

Movie
O Seasons, O Castles

O Seasons, O Castles

1958

6.2

Movie
Olivia

Olivia

1951

6.5

Movie
Pardon Mon Affaire

Pardon Mon Affaire

1976

7.0

Movie
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre

2005

7.0

Movie
Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ?

Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ?

1982

5.1

Movie
Repeated Absences

Repeated Absences

1972

4.5

Movie
Royal Affairs in Versailles

Royal Affairs in Versailles

1954

6.8

Movie
Sleeping Waters

Sleeping Waters

1992

1.0

Movie
Soleil éteint

Soleil éteint

1958

0.0

Movie
poster

Spécial cinéma

1974

0.0

TV
The Anatomy of Love

The Anatomy of Love

1954

6.4

Movie
The Bamboo Incident

The Bamboo Incident

1970

6.7

Movie
The Beautiful Adventure

The Beautiful Adventure

1942

0.0

Movie
The Chips Are Down

The Chips Are Down

1947

6.7

Movie
The Crook

The Crook

1970

7.0

Movie
The Fiancés of Macdonald Bridge

The Fiancés of Macdonald Bridge

1961

6.5

Movie
The Healer

The Healer

1953

5.3

Movie
The J3

The J3

1946

0.0

Movie
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform

The Little Ones of the Flower Platform

1944

6.1

Movie
The Seventh Juror

The Seventh Juror

1962

6.9

Movie
Touch Me Not

Touch Me Not

1974

0.0

Movie
Twilight

Twilight

1944

6.0

Movie
Venom and Eternity

Venom and Eternity

1951

6.7

Movie
poster

Vivement dimanche

1998

3.2

TV
We Will All Meet in Paradise

We Will All Meet in Paradise

1977

6.8

Movie
Without Leaving an Address

Without Leaving an Address

1951

6.1

Movie
Women's Prison

Women's Prison

1958

4.0

Movie