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.
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. ...
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Filmography (Movies)
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Character:Self
Release Date:07/12/2005
Fall Out
Character:Mrs. Germaine
Release Date:08/05/1996
Sleeping Waters
Character:Mrs. de Lespinière
Release Date:18/11/1992
Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ?
Character:Georges
Release Date:05/06/1982
Break of Day
Character:Colette
Release Date:01/11/1980
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
Character:Eudes
Release Date:12/11/1978
We Will All Meet in Paradise
Character:Marthe Dorsay, Étienne's wife
Release Date:09/11/1977
Pardon Mon Affaire
Character:Marthe Dorsay
Release Date:22/09/1976
Touch Me Not
Character:Lilian
Release Date:23/09/1974
Belle
Character:Jeanne
Release Date:17/01/1973
Repeated Absences
Character:La mère de François
Release Date:01/11/1972
The Crook
Character:Janine
Release Date:20/11/1970
The Bamboo Incident
Character:l'infirmière française
Release Date:22/06/1970
Marie Soleil
Character:Marie-Soleil
Release Date:19/12/1964
The Seventh Juror
Character:Geneviève Duval, Grégoire's wife
Release Date:18/04/1962
Fiancés on the Bridge
Character:Flowers Vendor
Release Date:11/04/1962
Cléo from 5 to 7
Character:The Flower Vendor / Actress in Silent Film
Release Date:11/04/1962
Le Pèlerinage
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1962
Women's Prison
Character:Alice Rémon or Dumas
Release Date:15/07/1958
Every Day Has Its Secret
Character:Olga Lezcano
Release Date:11/06/1958
O Seasons, O Castles
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/05/1958
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
Character:Une admiratrice à la fête du village
Release Date:23/04/1958
Les Misérables
Character:Fantine
Release Date:12/03/1958
Soleil éteint
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1958
Mitsou
Character:Mitsou
Release Date:24/12/1956
Deadlier Than the Male
Character:Catherine
Release Date:13/04/1956
Black Dossier
Character:Yvonne Dutoit
Release Date:10/05/1955
No Exit
Character:Florence
Release Date:22/12/1954
House of Ricordi
Character:Maria
Release Date:01/12/1954
The Anatomy of Love
Character:Mara
Release Date:16/03/1954
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Character:Louison Chabray
Release Date:10/02/1954
The Healer
Character:Isabelle Dancey
Release Date:06/12/1953
Femmes de Paris
Character:Young female client of Ruban Bleu (uncredited)
Release Date:17/05/1953
Les Dents longues
Character:Eva Commandeur
Release Date:15/03/1953
Desperate Decision
Character:Catherine
Release Date:01/10/1952
Venom and Eternity
Character:Self
Release Date:25/01/1952
Love, Madame
Character:Self (uncredited)
Release Date:23/01/1952
Olivia
Character:Former Student (uncredited)
Release Date:27/04/1951
Without Leaving an Address
Character:Thérèse Ravenaz, jeune mineure provinciale
Release Date:17/01/1951
Brasil
Character:Self
Release Date:31/12/1950
Lost Souvenirs
Character:Danièle (segment "Une cravate de fourrure")
Release Date:11/11/1950
Bed for Two
Character:Michèle
Release Date:23/08/1950
Minne
Character:Minne
Release Date:24/05/1950
Miquette
Character:Miquette
Release Date:14/04/1950
Agnes of Nothing
Character:Agnès
Release Date:17/03/1950
Cage of Girls
Character:Micheline
Release Date:10/10/1949
Gigi
Character:Gilberte dite 'Gigi'
Release Date:05/10/1949
Impasse of Two Angels
Character:Anne-Marie
Release Date:03/10/1948
Cruise for the Unknown One
Character:
Release Date:01/09/1948
The Chips Are Down
Character:La noyée
Release Date:01/07/1947
The J3
Character:A student
Release Date:17/04/1946
Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
Character:
Release Date:27/03/1946
Lunegarde
Character:(uncredited)
Release Date:16/01/1946
Twilight
Character:La camarade de Félicie (uncredited)
Release Date:20/12/1944
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
Character:Bérénice Grimaud
Release Date:26/05/1944
The Beautiful Adventure
Character:Monique
Release Date:20/12/1942
Television Appearances
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