
Mireille Balin
Mireille Césarine Balin (born Blanche Mireille Césarine Balin; 20 July 1909, in Monte Carlo – 9 November 1968 in Paris) was a French-Italian actress. Balin was born near Monte Carlo. Her father, Charles Balin, was a French newspaper publisher. Her mother was Italian. Her education came at finishing schools. She was a policewoman in Paris until friends urged her to take a screen test. Balin posed for some advertisements in Paris before she began acting in films. Considered one of the finest actresses of French cinema in the 1930s, she was discredited by her fraternization with the Nazis. During Nazi occupation of France, she became romantically involved with an officer of the Wehrmacht and at the end of war she was imprisoned in Fresnes until January 1945. She retired from film in 1947. Balin arrived in Hollywood in 1937 with a staff of servants and with 28 trunks containing "most of her worldly possessions. During the final 10 years of her life she lived in a "charitable home". Balin died in 1968, aged 59.
Known For
Credits
- 2011 · Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation as Self (archival footage)
- 1947 · La dernière chevauchée as Louise Valérian
- 1943 · Malaria as
- 1942 · Haut le vent as Gisèle Esteban
- 1942 · L'assassin a peur la nuit as Lola Gracieuse
- 1942 · The Trump Card as Bella Score
- 1942 · Gambling Hell as Mireille
- 1942 · The Woman I Loved the Most as Claude's wife
- 1941 · Fromont Young and Risler Elder as Sidonie Chèbe
- 1940 · Threats as Denise
- 1940 · The Siege of the Alcazar as Carmen Herrera
- 1939 · Immediate Call as
- 1939 · Cas de conscience as
- 1939 · Gunshot as Countess Vilma Isopolska
- 1939 · Land of Fire as Georgette
- 1938 · Captain Benoit as Véra Agatcheff
- 1938 · Golden Venus as Judith
- 1937 · Naples Under the Kiss of Fire as Assunta
- 1937 · Lady Killer as Madeleine Courtois, l'aventurière
- 1937 · Pépé le Moko as Gaby, the Parisian
- 1936 · Girls of Paris as Gine
- 1936 · Le Roman d'un spahi as Cora
- 1935 · Marie des angoisses as Marie
- 1934 · Si j'étais le patron as Marcelle
- 1934 · We Found a Naked Woman as Denise
- 1934 · Vive la compagnie as Lilette
- 1933 · Don Quixote as The Niece
- 1933 · Le sexe faible as Nicole
- 1932 · Vive la classe as