Dominique Wilms

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Dominique Wilms (* 8. June 1930 as Claudine Maria Célina Wilmes in Montignies-sur-Sambre, Belgium ) is a Belgian ex- actress , a star of the action-packed, French entertainment film of the 1950s and 1960s.

biography

At the beginning of the 1950s, Wilms had attended the 'École des Beaux-Arts' in Paris and then worked as a mannequin. The film director Edmond T. Gréville saw her one day and recommended her to his young colleague Bernard Borderie , who then gave her the female lead in the cynical thriller Under the Spell of Blond Satan . At the side of the then completely unknown American Eddie Constantine , who was to become the new action star of the American gangster and beating film overnight with this trash film classic, the Belgian also made her breakthrough.

Since her screen debut, Dominique Wilms has been regularly tied to the wicked, blonde vamp type, the unscrupulous luxury slut who calculatively wraps men around her finger and dumps them ice cold if necessary. Her first foray into German film, the hair-raising jungle fairy tale Romarei, the girl with the green eyes , was not dissimilar . In the Jerry Cotton series product At zero o'clock, the trap is caught as the hardened crook lover Maureen, who is significantly involved in the robbery of jewels and 20 canisters of nitroglycerin, with which a major gangster threatens to blow up parts of Manhattan.

In Wilms' other film works, consistently easily consumable B-films with a high cult and trash factor, in which she repeatedly encountered Constantine as a film partner (as in her second German production Bombs on Monte Carlo ), she used the cliché of the easy-going, amoral Slut and the 'man-murdering' bitch. When in 1957 the opportunity arose to go to Hollywood on the recommendation of the writer Françoise Sagan to work in Otto Preminger's film adaptation of the Sagan novel Bonjour tristesse , she turned it down, as she would have had to stay in the USA for six months to be there Perfecting English. The part of Elsa that was offered to her then went to her colleague Mylène Demongeot, who was five years her junior .

Tired of the same roles, Dominique Wilms, who had rarely worked in television productions, decided to withdraw from the film business in 1967. Instead, she studied art history at the 'École du Louvre' for four years and devoted herself to painting. Another hobby was the restoration of works of art.

Dominique Wilms has been married to her professional colleague Jean Gaven (* 1922) since 1957.

Filmography

  • 1953: Under the spell of blond Satan (Le môme vert le gris)
  • 1953: Serenade for two pistols (Les femmes s'en balancent)
  • 1954: Whiskey, dynamite and devil women (La soupe à la grimace)
  • 1954: Block 3 does not answer (Pas de coup dur pour Johnny)
  • 1954: Those who sell (Les clandestines)
  • 1955: Les pépées font la loi
  • 1956: Scream of conscience (Les assassins du dimanche)
  • 1956: The secret of the three junks (La rivière des trois jonques)
  • 1956: Washed with all waters (Et par ici la sortie)
  • 1957: love, rags, passions (Le grand bluff)
  • 1957: Les aventuriers du Mékong
  • 1958: Romarei, the girl with green eyes
  • 1959: Girl trafficker from Paris (Chaque minute compte)
  • 1959: Murderers ask to dance (Y en a marre)
  • 1959: Deuxième bureau contre terroristes
  • 1960: Bombs on Monte Carlo
  • 1960: Love at the end of the world (Questo amore ai confini del mondo)
  • 1962: Julius Caesar, the tyrant of Rome (Cesare, il conquistadore delle Gallie)
  • 1964: Hot Hell Bangkok (Banco à Bangkok pour OSS 117)
  • 1965: At midnight the trap snaps shut
  • 1966: Poker game for four women (Carré de dames pour un as)
  • 1966: Les voyageurs de l'espace (TV)
  • 1970: Count Yoster gives himself the honor (German TV series, episode: "Almost a colleague")
  • 1972: La canne (TV)
  • 1999: Le club (TV series, one episode)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ acc. To the film archive Kay Less (source: marriage certificate n ° 5/368/114/1977); older information that she was born in 1932 or 1933 is incorrect

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1893.
  • Ciné Tele-Revue (TV and film magazine), issue v. 17th January 1988

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personal data
SURNAME Wilms, Dominique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Montignies-sur-Sambre, Belgium