Danièle Delorme

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1926-10-09

Deathday 2015-10-17 (89 years old)

Place of Birth Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Also Known As Gabrielle Girard, Danièle Girard, Gabrielle Danièle Marguerite Andrée Girard, Даниэль Делорм

Danièle Delorme

Biography

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

Actor

2006
Mafiosa

as Filipponi

1998
1996
Fall Out

as Mrs. Germaine

1988
L'Affaire Saint-Romans

as Marguerite Lallier

1980
Break of Day

as Colette

1977
We Will All Meet in Paradise

as Marthe Dorsay, Étienne's wife

1976
Pardon Mon Affaire

as Marthe Dorsay

1974
Touch Me Not

as Lilian

1974
1973
Belle

as Jeanne

1972
Repeated Absences

as La mère de François

1972
Midi trente

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, Grégoire's wife

1962
Cléo from 5 to 7

as The Flower Vendor / Actress in Silent Film

1961
1958
Women's Prison

as Alice Rémon or 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

1956
Mitsou

as Mitsou

1956
1956
1955
Black Dossier

as Yvonne Dutoit

1954
No Exit

as Florence

1954
1954
Royal Affairs in Versailles

as Louison Chabray

1953
The Healer

as Isabelle Dancey

1953
Les Dents longues

as Eva Commandeur

1952
Desperate Decision

as Catherine

1952
1952
Love, Madame

as Self (uncredited)

1951
Olivia

as Former Student (uncredited)

1951
Without Leaving an Address

as Thérèse Ravenaz, jeune mineure provinciale

1950
1950
Lost Souvenirs

as Danièle (segment "Une cravate de fourrure")

1950
Bed for Two

as Michèle

1950
Minne

as Minne

1950
Miquette

as Miquette

1950
1949
Cage of Girls

as Micheline

1949
Gigi

as Gilberte dite 'Gigi'

1948
Impasse of Two Angels

as Anne-Marie

1947
The Chips Are Down

as La noyée

1946
The J3

as A student

1946
Lunegarde

as (uncredited)

1944
Twilight

as La camarade de Félicie (uncredited)

1944

Producer

2013
The Gilded Cage

as Producer

2012
Just Like Brothers

as Producer

2001
Winged Migration

as Associate Producer

1986
L'été 36

as Producer

1981
1981
Un étrange voyage

as Producer

1979
Martin and Lea

as Producer

1979
The Crying Woman

as Producer

1979
The Hussy

as Producer

1978
1976
That Kid

as Producer

1972
Repeated Absences

as Producer

1969
Le Grand Amour

as Producer

1968
1962
War of the Buttons

as Producer