16 Interesting Facts About Danielle Darrieux

1. #002

   Danielle Darrieux studied cello and piano at the Conservatoire de Musique in Paris.

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2. #003

   Decades before Brigitte Bardot ("BB"), Danielle Darrieux was known by her initials, "DD."

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3. #004

   Danielle Darrieux appeared in several films by her first husband, the writer/director Henri Decoin.

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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.

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5. #007

   Danielle Darrieux was one of France's greatest film stars, and her eighty-year career ranks among the longest in cinema history.

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6. #009

   Danielle Darrieux grew up in Paris and studied cello at the Conservatoire de Musique.

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7. #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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8. #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.

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   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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10. #015

    At the age of 14, Danielle Darrieux appeared in the musical film Le Bal (1931).

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11. #016

    Danielle Darrieux was a French stage, television and film actress, as well as a singer and dancer.

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12. #018

    Danielle Darrieux was awarded an Honorary César in 1985 for her long service to the film industry.

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13. #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.

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14. #021

    At the request of director Lewis Gilbert, Darrieux worked in England to shoot The Greengage Summer (1961) alongside Kenneth More.

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15. #022

    In the 1960s she was also a concert singer.

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16. #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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