Dany Robin
Actor
Biography
Dany Robin (14 April, 1927 – 25 May, 1995) was a French actress of the 1950s and the 1960s. Nicknamed ‘la petite fiancée de la France’ (France's little fiancée) in the post-war years, she became one of the leading female stars of the 1950s, moving from the role of ‘ingénue’ to that of saucy Parisienne. She played the leading lady in Topaz (1969), and is regarded as the last ‘Hitchcock blonde’.
Robin was born Danielle Robin in Clamart. She performed with Peter Sellers in The Waltz of the Toreadors, and co-starred opposite Kirk Douglas in the 1953 romantic drama Act of Love. Robin co-starred with Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, and Janis Paige in Follow the Boys (1963). Her last leading role was the agent's wife Nicole Devereaux in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz (1969).
Robin was married to fellow actor Georges Marchal. On 25 May 1995, she and her second husband, Michael Sullivan, died in a fire in their apartment in Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dany Robin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Don't Lose Your Head
as Jacqueline 1967
Gates of the Night
as Étiennette 1946
The Mysteries of Paris
as Irène, Rodolphe's mistress 1962
Napoleon
as Désirée Clary 1955
Cadet Rousselle
as Violetta Carlino 1954
Silence Is Golden
as Lucette 1947
Holiday for Henrietta
as Henriette 1952
The Anatomy of Love
as L'innamorata 1954
The Chasers
as Denise 1959
Monelle
as Monelle Picart, young pianist 1948
Waltz of the Toreadors
as Ghislaine 1962
Young Love
as Catherine Mareuil 1951
Love and the Frenchwoman
as Nicole Perret, l'épouse frivole (segment "L'Adultère") 1960
Frou-Frou
as Antoinette Dubois dite « Frou Frou » 1955
Tales of Paris
as Antonia (segment "Antonia") 1962
The Great Deception
as la comtesse De Monval, l'envoyée spéciale du Roi Louis XV 1959