Danièle Delorme

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 LevalloisPerret HautsdeSeine one of four children to the wellknown painter postermaker and theaterdesigner André Girard and his wife Andrée nee Jouan Girard maintained a studio in Venice in 193637 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 freezone 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 fathers 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 Hugos play Marion Delorme Delorme would costar 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 Duviviers Voici le temps des assassin 1956 Deadlier Than the Male in the US and Twelve Hours to Live in the UK costarring 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 staterun radio or television or in staterun 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 CCBYSA 30