Denise Darcel, the French-born actress known for vampy roles in such films as “Vera Cruz” and “Thunder in the Pines,” died Dec. 23 at a Los Angeles hospital from complications from an emergency surgery to repair a ruptured aneurysm. She was 87.
After coming to the U.S. in 1947, Darcel starred opposite several leading men in a string of films in the ’50s, including “Battleground” with Van Johnson, “Tarzan and the Slave Girl” with Lex Barker, “Westward the Women” with Robert Taylor and “Young Man with Ideas” with Glenn Ford.
She most famously played a vivacious double-crossing countess in 1954’s “Vera Cruz” alongside Burt Lancaster and Gary Cooper.
Darcel is survived by two sons.
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