Angèle Caroline Liliane Josette Marie-José DeGeest ( Antwerp 23 October 1925 –

Augsburg Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the '' ...

22 December 2001) was a Belgian singer and actress. Durand was a popular singer in Germany during the early 1950s.Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2001 Harris M. Lentz III – 2002 078641278X She was 76. She was born Angele Caroline De Geest in Antwerpen, Belgium, on October 23, 1925. Durand was a popular singer from the late 1940s and performed with Duke Ellington's band in Brussels in 1950. She subsequently appeared in a handful of films in Germany including Kapt'n Bay-Bay (1952), De Lachende Vagabund (1958), Five Sinners (1960), O Sole Mio (1960), Das Ratsel der Grunen Spinne (1960) and The Playgirls and the Bellboy (1962).

Filmography

*'' Captain Bay-Bay'' (1953) by

Helmut Käutner Helmut Käutner (25 March 1908 – 20 April 1980) was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s. He entered the film industry at the end of the Weimar Republic and released his first films as a director in Nazi Germany. Käu ...

*'' Dancing in the Sun'' (1954) by

Géza von Cziffra Géza von Cziffra (; 19 December 1900 – 28 April 1989) was a Hungarian and Austrian film director and screenwriter. Life Cziffra was a Banat German in origin, born in 1900 in Arad in the Banat region, at that date in the Kingdom of Hungary ...

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A Girl from Paris ''A Girl from Paris'' (german: Ein Mädchen aus Paris) is a 1954 West German comedy film directed by Franz Seitz, Jr. and starring Etchika Choureau, Erich Schellow, and Hans Leibelt.Dillmann & Loewy p. 71 The film's sets were designed by the a ...

'' (1954) *'' The Mistress of Solderhof'' (1955) *' (1958) *' (''Five Sinners'', 1959) * '' Hula-Hopp, Conny'' (1959) * '' The Scarlet Baroness'' (1959) *'' Hit Parade 1960'' (1960) *''Das Rätsel der grünen Spinne'' (1960) *' (1960) *''

The Bellboy and the Playgirls ''The Bellboy and the Playgirls'' is a 1962 American film by Francis Ford Coppola and Jack Hill. The film is a re-edited version of a West German film of 1958 originally titled '' '', directed by Fritz Umgelter with Coppola and Hill shooting nud ...

'' (1962) by

Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola (; ; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the major figures of the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Coppola is the recipient of five ...

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Don't Fool with Me ''Don't Fool with Me'' (German: ''Sing, aber spiel nicht mit mir'') is a 1963 Austrian musical comedy film directed by Kurt Nachmann and starring Adrian Hoven, Wera Frydtberg and Paul Hörbiger.Von Dassanowsky p.186 It was shot at the Sieverin ...

'' (1962) * ''I’m an Antistar'' (1976) by

Rosa von Praunheim Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky (born Holger Radtke; 25 November 1942), known professionally as Rosa von Praunheim, is a German film director, author, painter and one of the most famous gay rights activists in the German-speaking world. In ov ...

References

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