Ginette Pigeon

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Ginette Yvonne Pigeon (born September 5, 1933 in Herblay , Val-d'Oise ) is a French actress .

Life

Ginette Pigeon was born in Herblay, near Paris , in 1933 (other sources say 1936) . After attending secondary school ( Enseignement secondaire ), she completed an acting training with Maurice Escande , Béatrix Dussane and René Simon in Paris and played theater. She appeared in the plays La Feu sur la terre , Un inspecteur vous demande , Adorable Julia and George et Margaret, among others . In addition, Pigeon worked as a mannequin and appeared on the covers of French magazines.

Pigeon made her film debut in 1955 with a small role in Raymond Bernard's frivolous literary film adaptation Not all can be angels! with Edwige Feuillère and Henri Guisol . This was followed by appearances in 19 films of numerous genres by the mid-1960s, in which she was almost without exception entrusted with supporting roles. Pigeon acted under the direction of Jean Boyer ( Der Modekönig , 1956), Yves Robert ( Signed: Arsène Lupine , 1959), Édouard Molinaro ( The murderer came at midnight , 1959), László Benedek ( Recours en grâce , 1960), Henri Decoin ( The cat shows its claws , 1960) and Robert Lamoureux ( La Brune que voilà , 1960). She also took on several roles in foreign cinemas, including the award-winning Czechoslovak film Grandfather Automobile (1957) by Alfréd Radok and several German productions. Géza von Radványi shot Pigeon after Girls Without Borders (1955) as the Franco-German boarding school student and confidante of Romy Schneider , Edelgard von Kleist (Yvette), in the youth drama Girls in Uniform (1958). He also worked in the Franco-German gangster film Your crime was love (1959) with the blonde actress.

After a small role in Jacques R. Villa's youth thriller The Little Cats (1965) with the young Catherine Deneuve , Pigeon did not pursue her film career and only appeared again in 1974 in the feature film Q by Jean-François Davy .

Filmography

  • 1955: Not all can be angels! (Les Fruits de l'été)
  • 1955: On déménage le colonel
  • 1955: Girls Without Borders
  • 1956: The fashion king (Le Couturier de ces dames)
  • 1956: Ce soir les jupons volent
  • 1957: Hello, Doctor! (Bonjour Toubib)
  • 1957: grandfather automobile (Dědeček automobil)
  • 1957: Les Fiancés du paradis
  • 1957: Vacances explosives!
  • 1958: Oops, here comes Eddie
  • 1958: girls in uniform
  • 1959: Their crime was love (Douze heures d'horloge)
  • 1959: The murderer came at midnight (Un témoin dans la ville)
  • 1959: Signed: Arsène Lupine (Signé Arsène Lupine)
  • 1960: The cat shows its claws (La Chatte sort ses griffes)
  • 1960: Recours en grâce
  • 1960: La Brune que voilà
  • 1963: Merci Natercia!
  • 1965: The Little Cats (Les Petits Chats)
  • 1965: Le Petit Monstre
  • 1974: Q

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile at lesgensducinema.com (French; accessed June 1, 2012).
  2. ↑ a b Pigeon, Ginette . In: Thevenet, René: Annuaire biographique du cinéma et de la télévision en France, en Belgique et en Afrique du nord . Paris: Contact, 1957 (accessed via World Biographical Information System Online ).
personal data
SURNAME Pigeon, Ginette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pigeon, Ginette Yvonne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Herblay-sur-Seine , Val-d'Oise department , France