Danièle Delorme

Known for ActingBorn 1926-10-09Died 2015-10-18Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, France

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Philippe Soupault et le surréalisme

La Barricade du Point-du-Jour

Touch Me Not

Marie Soleil

Spécial cinéma

The Beautiful Adventure

Cinépanorama

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre

Le Grand Échiquier

Le Pèlerinage

Winged Migration

Cage of Girls

Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent

The J3

Cléo from 5 to 7

Mafiosa

À l'abri des regards indiscrets

The Gilded Cage

The Prodigal Daughter

Deadlier Than the Male

War of the Buttons

The Crook

Les Misérables

Pardon Mon Affaire

Just Like Brothers

Un étrange voyage

The Hussy

The Bamboo Incident

Very Happy Alexander

Femmes de Paris

We Will All Meet in Paradise

Bed for Two

The Seventh Juror

Venom and Eternity

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

The Chips Are Down

Break of Day

Trocadero Lemon Blue

Royal Affairs in Versailles

Le Grand Amour

Cruise for the Unknown One

Fiancés on the Bridge

Olivia

Twilight

The Little Ones of the Flower Platform

Brasil

O Seasons, O Castles

The Anatomy of Love