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.
Known For
Credits
- 2006 · Mafiosa as Filipponi
- 2005 · Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre as Self
- 1998 · Vivement dimanche as Self
- 1996 · Fall Out as Mrs. Germaine
- 1992 · Sleeping Waters as
- 1988 · L'affaire Saint-Romans as Marguerite Lallier
- 1982 · Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ? as Georges
- 1980 · Break of Day as Colette
- 1978 · La Barricade du Point-du-Jour as Eudes
- 1977 · We Will All Meet in Paradise as Marthe Dorsay, la femme d'Étienne
- 1976 · Pardon Mon Affaire as Marthe Dorsay
- 1974 · Spécial cinéma as Self
- 1974 · Touch Me Not as Lilian
- 1973 · Belle as Jeanne
- 1972 · Repeated Absences as La mère de François
- 1972 · Midi trente as Self
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- 1970 · The Crook as Janine
- 1970 · The Bamboo Incident as l'infirmière française
- 1964 · Marie Soleil as Marie-Soleil
- 1962 · The Seventh Juror as Geneviève Duval, l'épouse de Grégoire
- 1962 · Cléo from 5 to 7 as The Flower Vendor / Actress in Silent Film
- 1962 · Le Pèlerinage as
- 1961 · The Fiancés of Macdonald Bridge as Flowers Vendor
- 1958 · Women's Prison as Alice Rémon ou Dumas
- 1958 · Every Day Has Its Secret as Olga Lezcano
- 1958 · O Seasons, O Castles as Narrator (voice)
- 1958 · Neither Seen Nor Recognized as Une admiratrice à la fête du village
- 1958 · Les Misérables as Fantine
- 1958 · Soleil éteint as
- 1956 · Mitsou as Mitsou
- 1956 · Deadlier Than the Male as Catherine
- 1956 · Cinépanorama as Self
- 1955 · Black Dossier as Yvonne Dutoit
- 1954 · No Exit as Florence
- 1954 · House of Ricordi as Maria
- 1954 · The Anatomy of Love as Mara
- 1954 · Royal Affairs in Versailles as Louison Chabray
- 1953 · The Healer as Isabelle Dancey
- 1953 · Femmes de Paris as
- 1953 · Les Dents longues as Eva Commandeur
- 1952 · Desperate Decision as Catherine
- 1952 · Love, Madame as Self (uncredited)
- 1951 · Olivia as Former Student (uncredited)
- 1951 · Venom and Eternity as Self
- 1951 · Without Leaving an Address as Thérèse Ravenaz, jeune mineure provinciale
- 1950 · Brasil as
- 1950 · Lost Souvenirs as Danièle
- 1950 · Bed for Two as Michèle
- 1950 · Minne as Minne
- 1950 · Miquette as Miquette
- 1950 · Agnes of Nothing as Agnès
- 1949 · Cage of Girls as Micheline
- 1949 · Gigi as Gilberte dite 'Gigi'
- 1948 · Impasse of Two Angels as Anne-Marie
- 1948 · Cruise for the Unknown One as
- 1947 · The Chips Are Down as La noyée
- 1946 · The J3 as A student
- 1946 · Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent as
- 1946 · Lunegarde as (uncredited)
- 1944 · Twilight as La camarade de Félicie (uncredited)
- 1944 · The Little Ones of the Flower Platform as Bérénice Grimaud
- 1942 · The Beautiful Adventure as Monique