Danièle Delorme
Date of birth: 1926-10-09
Place of birth: Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Gabrielle Girard, Danièle Girard, Gabrielle Danièle Marguerite Andrée Girard, Даниэль Делорм
Biography
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 landed her a breakthrough role in Miquette et sa mère (1949). In 1949, she also played the title role in Gigi (1949 film), before Leslie Caron's success in the same role in the American (musical) version (Gigi (1958 film)) . Also notable was her performance 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.
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Pardon Mon Affaire
1976-09-22
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House of Ricordi
1954-12-01
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La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
1978-11-12
Les Misérables
1958-03-12
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The Seventh Juror
1962-04-18
In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is
We Will All Meet in Paradise
1977-11-09
Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, Étienne Dorsay
The Anatomy of Love
1954-03-16
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
Miquette
1950-04-14
A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater,
Impasse of Two Angels
1948-10-03
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine d
Les Dents longues
1953-03-15
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Belle
1973-01-17
Mathieu Grégoire is an esteemed author who lives in Spa with his wife and daughter and leads a caref
Fiancés on the Bridge
1962-04-11
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The Beautiful Adventure
1942-12-20
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The Healer
1953-12-06
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Twilight
1944-12-20
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Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
1946-03-27
France under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who are
The J3
1946-04-17
During the Second World War, in occupied Paris, a group of high school students is more active at se
Deadlier Than the Male
1956-04-13
In the heart of Paris, a restaurateur's mundane life is disrupted by the arrival of his ex-wife's da
The Chips Are Down
1947-07-01
A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the
Cruise for the Unknown One
1948-09-01
Kohlman, the attorney for the Fournil bank, diverts money from the institution. To hide his malpract
Bed for Two
1950-08-23
Robert Bobin has been an assistant accountant for twenty years now and, although meek and obedient,
Lost Souvenirs
1950-11-11
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Love, Madame
1952-01-23
Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François
Venom and Eternity
1952-01-25
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Olivia
1951-04-27
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Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
2005-12-07
This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre
Gigi
1949-10-05
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Mitsou
1956-12-24
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No Exit
1954-12-22
The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the gr
Brasil
1950-12-31
Abandoned documentary on the country Brazil which director Clouzot wanted to make while on honeymoon
Break of Day
1980-11-01
A writer in her fifties spends the summer in her Saint-Tropez home, tending to her garden and animal
Sleeping Waters
1992-11-18
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Fall Out
1996-05-08
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The Crook
1970-11-20
A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.
Without Leaving an Address
1951-01-17
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left h
O Seasons, O Castles
1958-05-01
A short documentary on the chateaux of the Loire in France was commissioned by the French Tourist Bu
Repeated Absences
1972-11-01
François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.
Black Dossier
1955-05-10
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential no
Marie Soleil
1964-12-19
He's twenty-five. She's thirty-five. He is a young agricultural engineer. She runs a nightclub in Ca
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
1944-05-26
A brave bookseller raises his four daughters alone, all of whom he employs in his shop. They are esp
Femmes de Paris
1953-05-17
Professor Charles Buisson, astronomer and Nobel Prize winner, has just discovered a nova. He informs
Minne
1950-05-24
Minne is a very imaginative young lady. She pretends to have had lovers and can't think of anything
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1954-02-10
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocra
Women's Prison
1958-07-15
Alice Rémon, a pharmacist, is a prostitute who managed to leave the streets by getting married. Her
Soleil éteint
1958-01-01
Desperate Decision
1952-10-01
Ireland, 1922. In the midst of a national uprising, Catherine, a young orphan employed in household
The Bamboo Incident
1970-06-22
A young Vietnamese boy's life is thrown into turmoil by the war raging in his country. The ten year
Agnes of Nothing
1950-03-17
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Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ?
1982-06-05
David, a Jewish filmmaker in his thirties, is working on a screenplay with autobiographical overtone
Touch Me Not
1974-09-23
A psychopathic industrial spy terrorizes a secretary late at night in a darkened high-rise office bu
Cage of Girls
1949-10-10
Micheline, who fled to Paris with the man she is in love with, finds herself on her own when he aban
Every Day Has Its Secret
1958-06-11
Given up for dead three years ago in a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest, a young woman arrives i
Cléo from 5 to 7
1962-04-11
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Neither Seen Nor Recognized
1958-04-23
In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridicul
Le Pèlerinage
1962-01-01
Lunegarde
1946-01-16
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