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Dany Robin

Born April 14, 1927 · Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France

Died May 25, 1995 · aged 68

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’. Ro…

Known For

The Mysteries of Paris

The Mysteries of Paris · 1962

The Mysteries of Paris

MovieHistoryAdventure

The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow -- unjustly accused of robbery -- to find her missing daughter.

Frou-Frou

Frou-Frou · 1955

MovieRomanceComedy

A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.

Tales of Paris

Tales of Paris · 1962

MovieComedyDrama

A film made up of four sketches. In Marc Allégret's Sophie, a naive high-school girl invents a love affair with her mother's lover. But it's a guitarist with whom she falls in love. In Françoise, by Claude Barma, a young woman returning to France after living in the United States has an affair with her best friend's lover. In Antonia, by Michel Boisrond, a middle-aged woman tries to convince her ex-lover that she still has many assets to seduce. In Ella, by Jacques Poitrenaud, a Pigalle dancer meets a man in a cab.

Don't Lose Your Head

Don't Lose Your Head · 1967

Don't Lose Your Head

Amidst the French revolution, Citizen Robespierre is beheading the aristocracy! When word gets to England, noblemen Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy Pue take it upon themselves to aid their French counterparts. Sir Rodney is a master of disguise, and becomes 'The Black Fingernail' scourge of Camembert and Bidet, leaders of the French secret police.

Topaz

MovieDramaThriller

Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.

The Anatomy of Love

The Anatomy of Love · 1954

The Anatomy of Love

MovieComedyMusic

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

The Great Deception

The Great Deception · 1959

The Great Deception

Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit his inheritance to his son Pascal. At least this is what he thinks, for Pascal has concealed from his father the fact that his son was ... a daughter, his eighth daughter! Well, enough is enough and Geneviève has no other choice but become a boy first, then a soldier and even the special envoy of Louis XV, King of France, to Catherine II, the Czarina of Russia.

Act of Love

Act of Love · 1953

While on holiday on the French Riviera, former soldier Robert Teller recounts his time in WWII-era France, where he meets and falls in love with a poor girl named Lise. However, they're unable to marry when Lise is accused of prostitution and Teller's commanding officer forbids the match. The couple's love is again tested when Teller learns the truth about his would-be wife's whereabouts.

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The Mysteries of Paris

The Mysteries of Paris · 1962

The Mysteries of Paris

MovieHistoryAdventure

The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow -- unjustly accused of robbery -- to find her missing daughter.

Irène, Rodolphe's mistress

Frou-Frou

Frou-Frou · 1955

MovieRomanceComedy

A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.

Antoinette Dubois dite « Frou Frou »

Tales of Paris

Tales of Paris · 1962

MovieComedyDrama

A film made up of four sketches. In Marc Allégret's Sophie, a naive high-school girl invents a love affair with her mother's lover. But it's a guitarist with whom she falls in love. In Françoise, by Claude Barma, a young woman returning to France after living in the United States has an affair with her best friend's lover. In Antonia, by Michel Boisrond, a middle-aged woman tries to convince her ex-lover that she still has many assets to seduce. In Ella, by Jacques Poitrenaud, a Pigalle dancer meets a man in a cab.

Antonia (segment "Antonia")

Don't Lose Your Head

Don't Lose Your Head · 1967

Don't Lose Your Head

Amidst the French revolution, Citizen Robespierre is beheading the aristocracy! When word gets to England, noblemen Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy Pue take it upon themselves to aid their French counterparts. Sir Rodney is a master of disguise, and becomes 'The Black Fingernail' scourge of Camembert and Bidet, leaders of the French secret police.

Jacqueline

Topaz

MovieDramaThriller

Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.

Nicole Devereaux

The Anatomy of Love

The Anatomy of Love · 1954

The Anatomy of Love

MovieComedyMusic

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

L'innamorata

The Great Deception

The Great Deception · 1959

The Great Deception

Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit his inheritance to his son Pascal. At least this is what he thinks, for Pascal has concealed from his father the fact that his son was ... a daughter, his eighth daughter! Well, enough is enough and Geneviève has no other choice but become a boy first, then a soldier and even the special envoy of Louis XV, King of France, to Catherine II, the Czarina of Russia.

la comtesse De Monval, l'envoyée spéciale du Roi Louis XV

Act of Love

Act of Love · 1953

While on holiday on the French Riviera, former soldier Robert Teller recounts his time in WWII-era France, where he meets and falls in love with a poor girl named Lise. However, they're unable to marry when Lise is accused of prostitution and Teller's commanding officer forbids the match. The couple's love is again tested when Teller learns the truth about his would-be wife's whereabouts.

Lise Gudayec

Monelle

Monelle · 1948

MovieDramaRomance

Gérard Favier is a famous composer who is deeply in love with his wife Sylvia. The couple meet Monelle, a pretty, talented young pianist and ardent admirer of Gérard Favier. The musician takes the young woman under his wing and launches her to success. But a tabloid reveals an affair between the composer and his protégée.

Monelle Picart, young pianist

Napoleon

Napoleon · 1955

MovieDramaHistory

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.

Désirée Clary

The Best House in London

The Best House in London · 1969

The Best House in London

In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of street prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.

Babette

Intermediate Landing in Paris

Intermediate Landing in Paris · 1955

Intermediate Landing in Paris

MovieComedyCrime

Michèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly flies the route from New York to Paris, but problems arise when he is transferred to the Tokyo route. Meanwhile Michèle's uncle Albert who works in the freight department sets out to tackle a drug trafficking outfit.

Michèle Tellier dite 'Baby Face'

Love and the Frenchwoman

Love and the Frenchwoman · 1960

Love and the Frenchwoman

MovieComedyRomance

The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.

Nicole Perret, l'épouse frivole (segment "L'Adultère")

Famous Love Affairs

Famous Love Affairs · 1961

Famous Love Affairs

MovieHistoryRomance

An anthology of four historical love affairs: at Versailles, Louis XIV shares his mistress with one of his subjects; a courtesan tries to disfigure her lover with acid; a medieval wife faces the wrath of her husband's father, who has her condemned to death; and a stage actress provides advice on life and love to her young colleague.

Mme de Monaco

Young Love

Young Love · 1951

MovieComedyCrime

Catherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two policemen find their dead bodies on a stretch of waste ground. The case is obvious: the two young people have killed themselves. But why? Chief Inspector Ernest Plonche, feeling upset, decides to investigate personally.

Catherine Mareuil

Silence Is Golden

Silence Is Golden · 1947

Silence Is Golden

MovieRomanceComedy

Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his younger friend Jacques come back from military service and after complaining his misfortune with women, follows Emile's advice in starting affairs with women and he meets Lucette.

Lucette

Gates of the Night

Gates of the Night · 1946

Gates of the Night

MovieDramaRomance

In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past.

Étiennette

Follow the Boys

Follow the Boys · 1963

Follow the Boys

MovieComedyMusic

Four women create mayhem as they follow their Navy partners around the Riviera.

Michele

The Lovers of Midnight

The Lovers of Midnight · 1953

The Lovers of Midnight

Marcel, rich and alone for Christmas, invite Françoise to celebrate with him. Soon, the fairy tale turns into a bad dream.

Françoise Letanneur

Holiday for Henrietta

Holiday for Henrietta · 1952

Holiday for Henrietta

Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with sentimental love for a young photographer on Bastille Day. The other has a more thrilling and dastardly fate in mind for her. Among the film's irresistible conceits is Hildegarde Neff as an oversexed circus bareback rider.

Henriette

Cadet Rousselle

Cadet Rousselle · 1954

Cadet Rousselle

MovieComedyHistory

The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortune. He thinks he knows love with Violeta, a dancer in a band of comedians but ends up involved in a monarchist plot.

Violetta Carlino

School for Coquettes

School for Coquettes · 1958

School for Coquettes

A young Parisian woman attends a school for coquettes in order to rise in society.

Ginette Masson

How Do You Like My Sister?

How Do You Like My Sister? · 1964

How Do You Like My Sister?

The brother of a delinquent schoolboy falls in love with his teacher and intrigues to make him reciprocate her love, and succeeds.

Martine Jolivet

The Rebels of Lomanach

The Rebels of Lomanach · 1954

The Rebels of Lomanach

MovieHistoryAdventure

A young woman has a perilous affair with a General from the opposing side during the Revolutionary war.

Monique de Lomanach