Mireille Balin

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Mireille Balin (born July 20, 1909 in Monte Carlo , Monaco , † November 9, 1968 in Clichy ; born Blanche Mireille Césarine Balin ) was a French actress .

The daughter of a Monegasque and an Italian first worked as a saleswoman, then as a mannequin in Paris . There she was discovered for the film in 1932 by the Austrian director GW Pabst . He gave her the role of Dulcinea in his adaptation of the novel Don Quixote .

Balin quickly developed into a renowned French film actress, mostly as a sophisticated femme fatale . In Pépé le Moko - In the Dark of Algiers , she played the seductive French lover of the main actor Jean Gabin . On nights in Naples she appeared with her then partner Tino Rossi , and again with Gabin in The Heartbreaker .

Grave of Mireille Balin

In 1940 she participated in the Italian production Alkazar , where director Augusto Genina heroized the Spanish Franco regime . After the occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht in World War II, she met Birl Desbok, a young officer at the German embassy, ​​in 1942.

After the liberation by the Allies in the summer of 1944, she fled Paris with him. The two were captured by the FFI on September 28 in Beausoleil near Nice . After being mistreated, Balin was imprisoned in Nice and then in Paris, and finally released on January 3, 1945 on bail. After that she was unable to continue her career and withdrew into private life, also because of her poor health. In the last years of her life she suffered from poverty, illnesses and alcohol problems. Mireille Balin is buried in the Saint-Ouen cemetery near Paris .

Filmography

  • 1933: Don Quixote (Don Quixote)
  • 1933: Le sexe faible
  • 1933: Adieu les beaux jours
  • 1934: On a trouvé une femme nue
  • 1934: Vive la compagnie
  • 1934: Si j'étais le patron
  • 1935: Marie des angoisses
  • 1936: Le roman d'un spahi
  • 1936: Jeunes filles de Paris
  • 1937: Pépé le Moko - In the dark of Algiers (Pépé le Moko)
  • 1937: The Heartbreaker (Gueule d'amour)
  • 1937: Nights in Naples (Naples au baiser de feu)
  • 1937: La Vénus de l'or
  • 1938: Le capitaine Benoît
  • 1939: Coups de feu
  • 1939: Terra di fuoco
  • 1939: Cas de conscience
  • 1939: Rappel immédiat
  • 1940: Alkazar (L'assedio dell'Alcazar)
  • 1940: Menaces
  • 1941: Fromont jeune et Risler aîné
  • 1942: My greatest love (La femme que j'ai le plus aimée)
  • 1942: The Macau gambling den (Macau, l'enfer du jeu)
  • 1942: Haut le vent
  • 1942: The last trump card (Dernier atout)
  • 1942: L'assassin a peur la nuit
  • 1943: Malaria
  • 1948: La dernière chevauchée

Remarks

  1. ↑ Dates of death according to IMDb. In Das Großes Personenlexikon des Films, Kay Less gives 8 November 1968 as the date of death and Paris as the place of death.

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personal data
SURNAME Balin, Mireille
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balin, Blanche Mireille Césarine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Monte Carlo , Monaco
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1968
Place of death Clichy , France