Colette Darfeuil

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Colette Darfeuil (born February 7, 1906 in Paris ; born Emma-Henriette Flacquet , † October 15, 1998 in Montfort-l'Amaury ) was a French actress .

Live and act

She was discovered in the Gaumont studios in 1920 when she was accompanying a friend who was supposed to take on an extra role. She soon received leading roles and also appeared in German, Spanish ( La bodega ) and Egyptian ( Fils à papa ) films.

Darfeuil mostly played the seductive femme fatale , for example in Abel Gance's 1930 's Das Ende der Welt . In 1933 she was the partner of Iwan Mosjukin in Casanova and in 1935 in Michel Strogoff of Adolf Wohlbrück . Her roles in The Virtue King with Fernandel and in Le Roi des Champs-Elysées alongside Buster Keaton were rather untypical .

Despite her successful career spanning over two decades, she never made her breakthrough to star, and from 1946, when her mother died, she was rarely in front of the camera. In 1953 Darfeuil finally retired from acting, and all attempts to get her back again were in vain.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1925: The man in the saddle
  • 1929: What a woman dreams in spring
  • 1929: The Man Who Doesn't Love
  • 1930: The End of the World (La Fin du monde)
  • 1932: The King of Virtue (Le Rosier de Madame Husson)
  • 1933: Casanova ( Les amours de Casanova )
  • 1934: Le Roi des Champs-Elysées
  • 1935: The Wonderful Night (La Vierge du rocher)
  • 1941: The golden butterfly (Le Club des soupirants)
  • 1943: Froment family (Untel père et fils)
  • 1952: The girl with the whip (La Fille au fouet)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Darfeuil, Colette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flacquet, Emma-Henriette (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1998
Place of death Montfort-l'Amaury , France