ACTOR
Danielle Darrieux
- Known for
- 8 femmes (2002), Une chambre en ville (1982), La ronde (1950), Le plaisir (1952)
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Danielle Darrieux is an actor best known for 8 femmes, Une chambre en ville and La ronde.
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- #001
Danielle Darrieux replaced Katharine Hepburn in the 1970 Broadway musical "Coco."
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Danielle Darrieux studied cello and piano at the Conservatoire de Musique in Paris.
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Decades before Brigitte Bardot ("BB"), Danielle Darrieux was known by her initials, "DD."
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Danielle Darrieux appeared in several films by her first husband, the writer/director Henri Decoin.
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Danielle Darrieux lost her father, an army doctor, when she was seven years old.
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After her American debut, Danielle Darrieux chose to return to France, where she found herself working under the surveillance of the new Nazi regime. She did what she could, continuing to act in films and entertaining the occupying troops as a singer. Unfortunately, this second activity led to Miss Darrieux being labeled a collaborator by the French underground, which at one point targeted the actress for execution. The postwar years brought some strange moments for Danielle, but the death sentence was allowed to lapse.
- #007
Danielle Darrieux was one of France's greatest film stars, and her eighty-year career ranks among the longest in cinema history.
- #008
Danielle Darrieux fell in love with Porfirio Rubirosa, a Dominican diplomat and notorious womanizer. They married in 1942. His anti-Nazi views forced him to reside in Germany. In exchange for Rubirosa's freedom, Darrieux agreed to make a promotional tour in Berlin. The couple lived in Switzerland until the end of the war and divorced in 1947.
- #009
Danielle Darrieux grew up in Paris and studied cello at the Conservatoire de Musique.
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During World War II, under the German occupation of France, Darrieux continued to work in a decision that drew heavy criticism from her fellow citizens. It is said, however, that Alfred Greven, the German head of Continental, the only film production company permitted in occupied France, had threatened to deport her brother.
- #011
Around 1994, Danielle Darrieux met Jacques Jenvrin, who was twenty years her junior. She retired with him to a house in Bois-le-Roi (Eure) and died there in 2017.
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The actress, who was somewhat blind but in good health, died in her sleep at 1:00 p.m. on October 17, 2017, after a fall at her home in Bois-le-Roi, at the age of 100.
- #013
Danielle Darrieux worked again with Jacques Demy on Une chambre en ville (1982), an opera-like musical melodrama reminiscent of the director's earlier The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, 1964). Darrieux once again provided her own vocals for the songs.
- #014
In Jacques Demy's musical film The Young Girls of Rochefort (1966), Danielle Darrieux's role was the only one in any of Demy's film musicals in which the lead actor sang her own musical numbers. (All the other actors had a separate person dubbing their singing parts.)
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At the age of 14, Danielle Darrieux appeared in the musical film Le Bal (1931).
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Danielle Darrieux was a French stage, television and film actress, as well as a singer and dancer.
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Danielle Darrieux played a supporting role in United Artists' final American film, the epic Alexander the Great (1956), starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom.
- #018
Danielle Darrieux was awarded an Honorary César in 1985 for her long service to the film industry.
- #019
In 1963, Danielle Darrieux appeared in the romantic comedy La Robe Mauve de Valentine at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris. The play was adapted from a novel by Françoise Sagan.
- #020
Her career spanned eighty years, and her final role was in the 2007 animated film Persepolis, in which she voiced the protagonist's grandmother; the film follows a girl coming of age in Iran and the impact of the Islamic revolution on her life.
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At the request of director Lewis Gilbert, Darrieux worked in England to shoot The Greengage Summer (1961) alongside Kenneth More.
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In the 1960s she was also a concert singer.
- #023
On 18 March 1942, she was one of the stars of the "train de la honte," along with Junie Astor, René Dary, Suzy Delair, Albert Préjean and Viviane Romance.
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