person

Danièle Delorme

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1926-10-09

Place of Birth

Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, France

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 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. ... Source: Article "Danièle Delorme" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Also Known For

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Pardon Mon Affaire

Sep 22, 1976

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62

House of Ricordi

Dec 01, 1954

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La Barricade du Point-du-Jour

Nov 12, 1978

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72

Les Misérables

Mar 12, 1958

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68

The Seventh Juror

Apr 18, 1962

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67

We Will All Meet in Paradise

Nov 09, 1977

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64

The Anatomy of Love

Mar 16, 1954

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53

Miquette

Apr 14, 1950

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56

Impasse of Two Angels

Oct 03, 1948

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54

Les Dents longues

Mar 15, 1953

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56

Belle

Jan 17, 1973

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65

Fiancés on the Bridge

Jan 01, 1961

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NA

The Beautiful Adventure

Dec 20, 1942

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53

The Healer

Dec 06, 1953

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60

Twilight

Dec 20, 1944

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NA

Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent

Mar 27, 1946

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NA

The J3

Apr 17, 1946

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71

Deadlier Than the Male

Apr 13, 1956

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67

The Chips Are Down

Jul 01, 1947

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62

Cruise for the Unknown One

Sep 01, 1948

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60

Bed for Two

Aug 23, 1950

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55

Lost Souvenirs

Nov 11, 1950

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25

Love, Madame

Jan 23, 1952

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67

Venom and Eternity

Jan 25, 1952

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66

Olivia

Apr 27, 1951

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70

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre

Dec 07, 2005

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56

Gigi

Oct 05, 1949

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50

Mitsou

Dec 24, 1956

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60

No Exit

Dec 22, 1954

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60

Brasil

Dec 31, 1950

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61

Break of Day

Nov 01, 1980

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10

Sleeping Waters

Nov 18, 1992

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37

Fall Out

May 08, 1996

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70

The Crook

Nov 20, 1970

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61

Without Leaving an Address

Jan 17, 1951

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62

O Seasons, O Castles

May 01, 1958

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45

Repeated Absences

Nov 01, 1972

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62

Black Dossier

May 10, 1955

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NA

Marie Soleil

Dec 19, 1964

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61

The Little Ones of the Flower Platform

May 26, 1944

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65

Femmes de Paris

May 17, 1953

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58

Minne

May 24, 1950

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68

Royal Affairs in Versailles

Feb 10, 1954

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40

Women's Prison

Jul 15, 1958

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NA

Soleil éteint

Jan 01, 1958

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53

Desperate Decision

Oct 01, 1952

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67

The Bamboo Incident

Jun 22, 1970

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58

Agnes of Nothing

Mar 17, 1950

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51

Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ?

Jun 05, 1982

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NA

Touch Me Not

Sep 23, 1974

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NA

Cage of Girls

Oct 10, 1949

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50

Every Day Has Its Secret

Jun 11, 1958

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76

Cléo from 5 to 7

Apr 11, 1962

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69

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

Apr 23, 1958

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70

Le Pèlerinage

Jan 01, 1962

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10

Lunegarde

Jan 16, 1946

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74

Mafiosa

Dec 12, 2006

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NA

Spécial cinéma

Sep 25, 1974

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80

Le Grand Échiquier

Jan 12, 1972

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60

Midi trente

Mar 06, 1972

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80

Cinépanorama

Feb 04, 1956

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NA

L'Affaire Saint-Romans

May 27, 1988

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30

Vivement dimanche

Sep 20, 1998