Danielle Darrieux

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Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (born May 1, 1917 in Bordeaux , † October 17, 2017 in Bois-le-Roi , Département Eure ) was a French film and theater actress .

life and career

Danielle Darrieux, the daughter of an ophthalmologist and a singing teacher, grew up in Paris . At the age of fourteen she was discovered by Wilhelm Thiele in 1931 for his dramatic comedy Le bal . At the age of 17 she played one of the leading roles in the comedic drama Mauvaise graine , directed by Billy Wilder, and shortly thereafter married the director Henri Decoin , who she frequently cast in his films. In 1934 she was seen again in a leading role, this time as Nicole in Robert Siodmak's comedy La Crise est finie . Her international career began in 1936 with the drama Mayerling , in which she starred alongside Charles Boyer as the unhappy lady-in-waiting Mary Vetsera . In 1937 she met the still young director Luis Aramchek and was so enthusiastic about him that she took on the leading role in his debut film Je ne vous aime pas . In 1938 Darrieux went to Hollywood and acted alongside Douglas Fairbanks junior in the comedy The Rage of Paris , which was awarded at the Venice Film Festival . After this film she returned to her native France. She continued her acting career during World War II and the Vichy regime until 1942, which later brought her into disrepute.

After a three-year acting break due to the war, Danielle Darrieux celebrated her comeback in 1945 with the theater production of Tristan und Isolde and the literary film adaptation of Little Happiness . In the 1950s, she became the model star of French film alongside Michèle Morgan . In 1950 Darrieux starred in Max Ophüls ' film Der Reigen . Three years later she was again seen under his direction in the drama Madame de ... , in which she, again at the side of Charles Boyer, played an upscale lady who has to choose between husband and lover. With the onset of the Nouvelle Vague , the film directors found no use for Darrieux, with the exception of Claude Chabrol , who cast them as one of the murder victims in the biographical film drama The Women Murderer of Paris . In 1967 she appeared in Jacques Demy's film musical The Girls of Rochefort for the first time as the mother of Catherine Deneuve .

In 1970 Darrieux replaced Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway production Coco . For the next few decades she was alternately on stage and in television and film productions. In 1982 she was nominated for the first time for the César film award, the French equivalent of the Oscar, for Jacques Demy's film musical Ein Zimmer in der Stadt . Three years later she was awarded the César for her life's work by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma . She received further nominations for César in 1987 for André Téchiné's film drama Scene of Crime and in 2002 for François Ozone's comedy film with melodramatic moments 8 women , in which she again acted as the mother of Catherine Deneuve.

Danielle Darrieux, who starred in over a hundred films, was married three times. After divorcing her first husband Henri Decoin in 1941, she married the diplomat Porfirio Rubirosa less than a year later . Rubirosa's career was marked by scandals and love affairs, and the couple divorced after five years of marriage. Darrieux entered a third marriage in 1948 with Georges Mitsinkidès. Danielle Darrieux died in October 2017 at the age of 100.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

César

  • 1983: nominated in the category “Best Supporting Actress” for One Room in the City
  • 1985: Honorary Award
  • 1987: Nominated in the category “Best Supporting Actress” for Scene of the Crime
  • 2003: nominated in the category "Best Supporting Actress" for 8 women

Further

7 d'Or Night

  • 1995: Best Actress in a TV Mini-Series for Jalna

Berlin International Film Festival

European film award

  • 2002: Best actress together with Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen, Firmine Richard and Ludivine Sagnier for 8 women

Molière

literature

Web links

Commons : Danielle Darrieux  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Danielle Darrieux died. (No longer available online.) In: mdr.de. October 19, 2017, archived from the original on October 19, 2018 ; Retrieved October 19, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  2. ↑ Danielle Darrieux is dead. Www.faz.net, October 19, 2017, accessed October 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Darrieux, Danielle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Darrieux, Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film and stage actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Bordeaux
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 2017
Place of death Bois-le-Roi , Eure department