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Danielle Darrieux | |
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 Darrieux in a publicity photo for5 Fingers (1952) | |
| Born | Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (1917-05-01)1 May 1917 |
| Died | 17 October 2017(2017-10-17) (aged 100) Bois-le-Roi, Eure, France |
| Years active | 1931–2010 |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 1 (adopted) |
Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (French pronunciation:[da.njɛli.vɔnma.ʁiɑ̃.twa.nɛtdaʁ.jø]; 1 May 1917 – 17 October 2017) was a French actress of stage, television and film, as well as a singer and dancer.
Beginning in 1931, she appeared in more than 110 films. She was one ofFrance's great movie stars and her eight-decade career was among the longest in film history.
Darrieux was born inBordeaux, France, duringWorld War I, the daughter of Marie-Louise (Witkowski) and Jean Darrieux, a medical doctor who was serving in theFrench Army.[1][2] Her mother was born inAlgeria.[3] Her father died when she was seven years old.
Raised inParis, she studied the cello at theConservatoire de Musique.[4] At 14, she won a part in themusical filmLe Bal (1931).[5] Her beauty combined with her singing and dancing ability led to numerous other offers; the filmMayerling (1936) brought her to prominence.[6]
In 1935, Darrieux married director/screenwriterHenri Decoin,[3] who encouraged her to tryHollywood. She signed a seven-year contract withUniversal Studios to star inThe Rage of Paris (1938)[5] oppositeDouglas Fairbanks, Jr. Afterwards, she elected to return toParis.
Under theGerman occupation of France during World War II, Darrieux continued to perform, a decision that was severely criticized by her compatriots. However, it is reported that her brother had been threatened with deportation byAlfred Greven, the German manager ofContinental, the only film production company permitted in occupied France. She received a divorce and then fell in love withPorfirio Rubirosa, aDominican Republic diplomat and notorious womanizer. They married in 1942 inVichy in a ceremony attended by other diplomats that resided in the city at the time.[7] Hisanti-Nazi opinions resulted in his forced residence in Germany. In exchange for Rubirosa's freedom, Darrieux agreed to make a promotional trip in Berlin. The couple lived in Switzerland until the end of the war, and divorced in 1947. She married scriptwriter Georges Mitsikidès in 1948, and they lived together until his death in 1991.
In 1950, the actress starred inMax Ophüls'La Ronde. When he was interviewed for the Criterion edition of his father's masterpiece,Marcel Ophüls described her as his father's favorite performer, and her performance is notable for its deft mixture of sensuality and ironic hauteur. Darrieux appeared in theMGM musicalRich, Young and Pretty (1951).Joseph L. Mankiewicz lured her back to Hollywood to star in5 Fingers (1952) withJames Mason. Upon returning to France, she appeared inMax Ophüls'The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) withCharles Boyer, andThe Red and the Black (1954) withGérard Philippe. She starred inLady Chatterley's Lover (1955), whose theme of uninhibited sexuality led to its being proscribed by Catholic censors in the United States. She played a supporting role in her last American film,United Artists' epicAlexander the Great (1956) starringRichard Burton andClaire Bloom.
At the request of directorLewis Gilbert, Darrieux worked in England to shootThe Greengage Summer (1961) withKenneth More. In 1963, she starred in the romantic comedyLa Robe Mauve de Valentine at theChatelet Theatre in Paris. The play was adapted from the novel byFrançoise Sagan.
InJacques Demy's film musicalThe Young Girls of Rochefort (1966) her role was the only one in which a principal actor in any of Demy's film-musicals sang his or her own musical parts. (All other actors had a separate person dub their singing parts.) During the 1960s, she also was a concert singer.
In 1970, Darrieux replacedKatharine Hepburn in the Broadway musicalCoco, based on the life ofCoco Chanel,[8] but the play, essentially a showcase for Hepburn, soon folded without her. In 1971 and 1972 she also appeared in the short-lived productions ofAmbassador. She worked again with Demy for his filmUne chambre en ville (1982), an opera-like musical melodrama reminiscent of the director's earlier workThe Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, 1964). Once again, Darrieux provided her own vocals for her songs.
For her long service to the motion picture industry, in 1985 she was given anHonorary César Award. She continued to work, her career spanning eight decades, most recently providing the voice of the protagonist's grandmother in the animated featurePersepolis (2007), which deals with the impact of theIslamic revolution on a girl's life as she grows to adulthood in Iran.
Danielle Darrieux died on 17 October 2017, due to complications from a fall, five months afterturning 100 that May.[9][10]
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | Le Bal | Antoinette | Wilhelm Thiele | |
| Coquecigrole | Coquecigrole | André Berthomieu | ||
| 1932 | The Lacquered Box | Henriette Stenay | Jean Kemm | |
| Panurge | Régine | Michel Bernheim | ||
| 1933 | Honeymoon Trip | Minor Role | Germain Fried and Erich Schmidt | |
| Dream Castle | Béatrix | Géza von Bolváry | ||
| 1934 | Volga in Flames | Macha | Victor Tourjansky | |
| The Crisis is Over | Nicole Nadin | Robert Siodmak | ||
| Mauvaise Graine | Jeannette | Billy Wilder and Alexander Esway | ||
| One Night's Secret | Minor Role | Félix Gandéra | Uncredited | |
| My Heart Is Calling You | Nicole Nadin | Carmine Gallone andSerge Véber | ||
| L'auberge du Petit-Dragon | Jean de Limur | |||
| Dédé | Denise | René Guissart | ||
| Gold in the Street | Gaby | Curtis Bernhardt | ||
| 1935 | Le contrôleur des wagons-lits | Annie Bourguet | Richard Eichberg | |
| Mad Girl | Lucie | Léo Joannon | ||
| J'aime toutes les femmes | Danielle | Karel Lamač and Henri Decoin | ||
| The Green Domino | Hélène / Marianne de Richmond | Herbert Selpin andHenri Decoin | ||
| 1936 | Mademoiselle Mozart | Denise | Yvan Noé | |
| Mayerling | Maria Vetsera | Anatole Litvak | ||
| Taras Bulba | Marina | Alexis Granowsky | ||
| Women's Club | Claire Derouve | Jacques Deval | ||
| Counsel for Romance | Jacqueline Serval | Jean Boyer andRaoul Ploquin | ||
| Port Arthur | Youki | Nicolas Farkas | ||
| 1937 | My Mother Is a Miss | Jacqueline Letournel | Henri Decoin | |
| Abused Confidence | Lydia | Henri Decoin | ||
| 1938 | The Rage of Paris | Nicole de Cortillion | Henry Koster | |
| Katia | Katia Dolgoronsky | Maurice Tourneur | ||
| Return at Dawn | Anita Ammer | Henri Decoin | ||
| 1940 | Beating Heart | Arlette | Henri Decoin | |
| 1941 | Her First Affair | Micheline Chevasse | Henri Decoin | |
| 1942 | Caprices | Lise | Léo Joannon | |
| Twisted Mistress | Lilian Rander | André Cayatte | ||
| 1947 | Bethsabée | Arabella Dalvert | Léonide Moguy | |
| 1948 | Ruy Blas | Queen of Spain | Pierre Billon | |
| 1949 | Jean de la Lune | Marceline - une jeune femme charmante mais volage | Marcel Achard | |
| Keep an Eye on Amelia | Amélie d'Avranches | Claude Autant-Lara | ||
| 1950 | La Ronde | Emma Breitkopf | Max Ophüls | |
| Romanzo d'amore | Archduchess Louise of Austria | Duilio Coletti | ||
| 1951 | Rich, Young and Pretty | Marie Devaronne | Norman Taurog | |
| La maison Bonnadieu | Gabrielle Bonnadieu | Carlo Rim | ||
| 1952 | The Truth About Bebe Donge | Elisabeth "Bébé" Donge | Henri Decoin | |
| House of Pleasure | Madame Rosa | Max Ophüls | (segment "La Maison Tellier") | |
| 5 Fingers | Countess Anna Staviska | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | ||
| Adorable Creatures | Christine | Christian-Jaque | ||
| 1953 | Good Lord Without Confession | Janine Fréjoul | Claude Autant-Lara | |
| The Earrings of Madame de... | Countess Louise | Max Ophüls | ||
| 1954 | El torero | Geneviève Dupré | René Wheeler | |
| Service Entrance | Béatrice Berthier | Carlo Rim | ||
| Le Rouge et le Noir | Madame de Rénal | Claude Autant-Lara | ||
| One Step to Eternity | Constance Andrieux dite Poussy | Henri Decoin | ||
| 1955 | Napoléon | Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne | Sacha Guitry | |
| The Affair of the Poisons | Madame de Montespan | Henri Decoin | ||
| Lady Chatterley's Lover | Constance Chatterley | Marc Allégret | ||
| 1956 | If Paris Were Told to Us | Agnès Sorel | Sacha Guitry | |
| Alexander the Great | Olympias | Robert Rossen | ||
| The Wages of Sin | Isabelle Lindstrom | Denys de La Patellière | ||
| 1957 | Typhoon Over Nagasaki | Françoise Fabre | Yves Ciampi | |
| Lovers of Paris | Caroline Hédouin | Julien Duvivier | ||
| 1958 | Le septième ciel | Brigitte de Lédouville | Raymond Bernard | |
| Le désordre et la nuit | Thérèse Marken | Gilles Grangier | ||
| Life Together | Monique Lebeaut | Clément Duhour | ||
| Sunday Encounter | Catherine Brévent | Marc Allégret | ||
| 1959 | Marie-Octobre | Marie-Hélène Dumoulin (aka "Marie-Octobre") | Julien Duvivier | |
| Eyes of Love | Jeanne Moncatel | Denys de La Patellière | ||
| 1960 | Murder at 45 R.P.M. | Eve Faugeres | Étienne Périer | |
| L'Homme à femmes [fr] | Gabrielle / Françoise | Jacques-Gérard Cornu | ||
| 1961 | The Greengage Summer | Madame Zisi | Lewis Gilbert | |
| Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love | Henriette d'Entragues | Claude Autant-Lara | ||
| The Lions Are Loose | Marie-Laure Robert-Guichard | Henri Verneuil | ||
| Les bras de la nuit | Danielle Garnier | Jacques Guymont | ||
| Les petits drames | Paul Vecchiali | Cameo appearance | ||
| 1962 | Le Crime ne paie pas | Lucienne Marsais | Gérard Oury | (segment "L'homme de l'avenue") |
| The Devil and the Ten Commandments | Clarisse Ardan | Julien Duvivier | (segment "Tes père et mère honoreras") | |
| Pourquoi Paris? | La prostituée | Denys de La Patellière | ||
| 1963 | Bluebeard | Berthe Héon | Claude Chabrol | |
| Be Careful Ladies | Hedwige | André Hunebelle | ||
| 1964 | Du grabuge chez les veuves | Judith | Jacques Poitrenaud | |
| Patate | Edith Rollo | Robert Thomas | ||
| 1965 | Le coup de grâce | Yolande | Jean Cayrol and Claude Durand | |
| L'or du duc | Marie-Gabrielle de M. | Jacques Baratier | ||
| 1967 | Le dimanche de la vie | Julia Ségovie | Jean Vautrin | |
| The Young Girls of Rochefort | Yvonne Garnier | Jacques Demy | ||
| 1968 | L'Homme à la Buick | Mme Dalayrac | Gilles Grangier | |
| 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman | Lady Alice Copland | Dominique Delouche | ||
| Birds in Peru | Madame Fernande | Romain Gary | ||
| 1969 | La maison de campagne | Lorette Boiselier | Jean Girault | |
| The Lonely Woman | Teresa / Jaci's mother | Francisco Rovira Beleta | ||
| 1975 | Divine | Marion Renoir | Dominique Delouche | |
| 1976 | L'Année sainte | Christina | Jean Girault | |
| 1979 | Le cavaleur | Suzanne Taylor | Philippe de Broca | |
| Miss a. k. a.Ein Fall für Madame | Miss | Roger Pigaut | 6 episodes, (French-German TV miniseries, aired in1979) | |
| 1982 | Une chambre en ville | Margot Langlois | Jacques Demy | |
| 1983 | At the Top of the Stairs | Françoise Canavaggia | Paul Vecchiali | |
| 1986 | Scene of the Crime | grandmother | André Téchiné | |
| Corps et biens | Madame Krantz | Benoît Jacquot | ||
| 1988 | A Few Days with Me | Madame Pasquier (Martial's mother) | Claude Sautet | |
| 1989 | Bille en tête | l'Arquebuse | Carlo Cotti | |
| 1991 | Le jour des rois | Armande | Marie-Claude Treilhou | |
| 1992 | Les mamies | Lolotte | Annick Lanoë | |
| 1994 | Jalna | Adeline Whiteoak | Gérard Marx | Canadian-French TV series in 8 episodes |
| 2000 | Tomorrow's Another Day | Eva | Jeanne Labrune | |
| 2001 | 8 Women | Mamy | François Ozon | |
| 2003 | Les Liaisons dangereuses | Madame de Rosemonde | Josée Dayan | 2 episodes |
| 2004 | Une vie à t'attendre | Emilie | Thierry Klifa | |
| 2006 | Oh La La! | Odette Saint-Gilles | Anne Fontaine | |
| 2007 | Persepolis | grandmother | Vincent Paronnaud andMarjane Satrapi | Voice |
| L'Heure Zéro | Camille Tressilian | Pascal Thomas | ||
| 2010 | Pièce montée | Madeleine | Denys Granier-Deferre | |
| C'est toi, c'est tout | Camille | Jacques Santamaria | TV movie |
| Year | Awards | Category | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | César Award | Best Supporting Actress | Scene of the Crime | Nominated |
| 2002 | Berlin International Film Festival | Silver Bear – Outstanding Artistic Achievement | 8 Women | Won |
| 2002 | César Award | Best Supporting Actress | 8 Women | Nominated |
| 2002 | European Film Awards | Best Actress (all the cast) | 8 Women | Won |
| 2002 | Online Film Critics Society | Best Cast | 8 Women | Nominated |
All the testimonies show the boredom that affected all the characters in the capital. Journalists, foreigners, certain politicians often met in the evening in the salon of the Hotel des Ambassadeurs, but it must be clear that nothing was happening there. Austerity in Vichy was in order, out of solidarity with the prisoners and those who suffered throughout the country, but also as a consequence of the restrictions and supplies that appeared in the winter of 1941, an exceptionally cold winter. From 1941, Pétain even had to organize two ceremonies to present his vows. In addition, the clergy had regained power in this capital and participated in the control of good morals. Christmas 1940, which the journalists celebrated loudly and with a lot of alcohol, caused a scandal. All the people occupied themselves as they could by participating in charities, galas, the funeral of the Japanese ambassador, the Orthodox mass on February 6, 1942 in honor of the seventeenth birthday of King Peter II of Yugoslavia or at the wedding of Danièle Darrieux with an attaché at the Embassy of the Dominican Republic.
