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Mireille Balin
Mireille Césarine Balin (born Blanche Mireille Césarine Balin; 20 July 1909, in Monte Carlo – 9 November 1968 in Paris)"Balin, Mireille (1911–1968)." ''Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages'', edited by Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer, vol. 1, Yorkin Publications, 2007, p. 123. ''Gale eBooks''. Accessed 11 Aug. 2021. was a French-Italian actress. Balin was born near Monte Carlo. Her father, Charles Balin, was a French newspaper publisher. Her mother was Italian. Her education came at finishing schools. She was a policewoman in Paris until friends urged her to take a screen test. Balin posed for some advertisements in Paris before she began acting in films. Considered one of the finest actresses of French cinema in the 1930s, she was discredited by her fraternization with the Nazis. During Nazi occupation of France, she became romantically involved with an officer of the Wehrmacht and at the end of war she was imprisoned in Fresnes until January 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fosco Giachetti
Fosco Giachetti (28 March 1900, in Sesto Fiorentino – 22 December 1974, in Rome) was an Italian actor. Fosco Giachetti was the protagonist of ''Lo squadrone bianco'' (1936), directed by Augusto Genina. He became the leading man in Fascist propaganda films such as ' (1936), ''Sentinelle di bronzo'' (1937), ''Scipione l'Africano'', Edgar Neville's Italian ''Carmen fra i rossi'' (1939), ''L'assedio dell'Alcazar'' (1940) and ''Bengasi'' (1942). In 1942, he also co-starred in Goffredo Alessandrini's two part '' Noi Vivi'' and ''Addio Kira!''. '' Un colpo di pistola'' (1942) by Renato Castellani and ''Fari nella nebbia'' (1942) by Gianni Franciolini were not as successful as his earlier films. After the war, he returned to the stage. He worked in Spain with Edgar Neville in '' Nada'' and in ''Carne de horca''. He had a supporting role in 1959 Dino Risi's successful comedy '' Il mattatore''. In 1964, he appeared in an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, ''The Citadel''. In 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Benoît
''Captain Benoit'' (French: ''Le capitaine Benoît'') is a 1938 French thriller film directed by Maurice de Canonge and starring Jean Murat, Mireille Balin and Madeleine Robinson.Spring p.168 The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. It was the fourth and final entry in a series of films featuring Captain Benoît, a member of the Deuxième Bureau, following '' Second Bureau'', ''Wolves Between Them'' and ''A Man to Kill''. Synopsis An officer saves the life of a foreign prince who is in France to buy seaplanes, while pursued by his enemies. Cast * Jean Murat as Capitaine Benoît * Mireille Balin as Véra Agatcheff * Madeleine Robinson as Denise Benoît * Raymond Aimos as Vic, le policier * Jean Mercanton as Le prince Joachim / Jean-Jacques de Landelle * Jean Témerson as Tripoff, le touriste * Jean Brochard as Mercadier * Jean Daurand as Griffon * Hugues de Bagratide as Le sultan * Marguerite de Morlaye * Nilda Duplessy * Jean Heuzé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Film Actresses
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People From Monte Carlo
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 Deaths
Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * January 10 – John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being 1968 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election, elected leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the only Australian Senate, Senator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives through the 1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat. * January 15 – The 1968 Belice earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000. * January 21 ** Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1909 Births
Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escapes death by fleeing across drift ice, ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * January 9 – The British Nimrod Expedition, ''Nimrod'' Expedition to the South Pole, led by Ernest Shackleton, arrives at the Farthest South, farthest south reached by any prior expedition, at 88°23' S, prior to turning back due to diminishing supplies. * January 11 – The International Joint Commission on US-Canada boundary waters is established. * January 16 – Members of the ''Nimrod'' Expedition claim to have found the magnetic South Pole (but the location recorded may be incorrect). * January 24 – The White Star Liner RMS Republic (1903), RMS ''Republic'' sinks the day after a collision with ''SS Florida'' off Nantucket. Almost all of the 1,500 passengers are rescued. * January 28 – The last United States t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaria (1943 Film)
''Malaria'' is a 1943 French drama film directed by Jean Gourguet and starring Mireille Balin, Sessue Hayakawa and Jacques Dumesnil.Kennedy-Karpat p.183 The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Dumesnil. Synopsis In the French colonial empire a love triangle develops between two men and a woman. She begins having an affair with a man who promises to take her back to Europe and away from the tropical colony which she finds like a prison. However a native servant overhears them and then mysteriously disappears, leading to suspicions of murders. Cast * Mireille Balin as Madeleine Barral * Sessue Hayakawa as Saïdi * Jacques Dumesnil as Jean Barral * Jean Debucourt as Le docteur Cyril * Michel Vitold as Henri Malfas * Alexandre Rignault as Le père Dalmar * Charles Lemontier as Ginès * Marcel Maupi as Zanzi * Paul Demange as Moniz * Michel Salina as Dago * François Viguier François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trump Card (film)
''The Trump Card'' (French: ''Dernier atout'') is a 1942 French crime film directed by Jacques Becker and starring Mireille Balin, Raymond Rouleau and Pierre Renoir. The film marked Becker's full debut as a director, although he had briefly worked on '' Cristobal's Gold'' in 1940. It was filmed partly on the French Riviera, which stood in for South America. Interiors were filmed at the Victorine Studios and at Pathé's studio in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Douy. During production Becker used the pretext of filming to liaise between French Resistance groups in Paris and the South.Crisp p.194 Synopsis In a Latin American country, two young policeman finish joint top of their graduating detective class. To separate them, they take on an investigation at a luxury hotel to see who is the better detective. The case proves however, to have been the murder of a notorious American gangster, killed by his former associates from Chicago Chicago is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman I Loved Most
''The Woman I Loved Most'' (French: ''La femme que j'ai le plus aimée'') is a 1942 French drama film directed by Robert Vernay and starring Arletty, Mireille Balin and Lucien Baroux. https://www.unifrance.org/film/2824/la-femme-que-j-ai-le-plus-aimee It was shot at the Cité Elgé Studios in Occupied Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renoux. Synopsys A young man with a broken heart intends to commit suicide, and in order to console him, his uncle and friends tell the stories of their own broken hearts. Cast * Arletty as Simone, surgeon's tenant * Mireille Balin as Ferval's wife * Lucien Baroux as Louis Drotort, artist * René Lefèvre as Georges, industrialist's son * André Luguet as lawyer * Noël-Noël Noël-Noël (born Lucien Noël; 9 August 1897 – 5 October 1989) was a French actor and screenwriter. Partial filmography * ''La prison en folie'' (1931) − Yves Larsac * '' When Do You Commit Suicide?'' (1931) − Léon Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Threats (film)
''Threats'' (French: ''Menaces'') is a 1940 French drama film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Mireille Balin, John Loder, Ginette Leclerc and Erich von Stroheim. Gréville began production on the film shortly after the Munich Agreement of September 1938.Neupert p.278 It was shot at the François 1er Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Jaquelux. Synopsis In the late 1930s, a number of refugees from various European countries are living in the same hotel in the Latin Quarter of Paris. The caring Denise is sympathetic to their plight, particularly that of Professor Hoffman who is in exile from his family and homeland. The more frivolous Ginette, meanwhile, uses the hotel for rendezvous with her lover, Dick Stone, an Englishman living abroad to avoid potential military service. The prospect of the impending Second World War plays an increasing role on the various characters. Cast * Mireille Balin as Denise * John Loder as Dick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
