Yvonne Suzanne Chazelles du Chaxel, better known as Dany Carrel, (born 20 September 1932) is a French actress. She was born in Tourane, today

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) to French father ''Marie Yves'' Aimé du Chaxel, a local Customs general manager, and his Vietnamese mistress, Kam., lettre de Huân, frère utérin de Dany Carrel à sa demi-sœur : « Maman a rencontré votre père lorsqu'elle avait dix-neuf-ans. Un jour, une superbe voiture s'est arrêtée juste devant la maison de maman, rue Hûng-Vuong. Maman est sortie pour la contempler. Votre père a aussitôt remarqué maman et l'a regardée avec un certain sentiment. Il était directeur général des douanes. Il a demandé à un ami vietnamien de lui présenter maman. Ainsi a commencé leur grand amour et leur vie conjugale... Maman avait vingt ans à la naissance d'Yvonne et dix-huit mois plus tard est née Alice. » [Translation : letter from Huân, uterine brother of Dany Carrel to her half-sister: "Mom met your father when she was nineteen. One day, a beautiful car stopped right outside Mama’s house on Hun-Vuong Street. Mama went out to contemplate it. Your father immediately noticed Mom and looked at her with a certain feeling. He was the director general of customs. He asked a Vietnamese friend to introduce him to Mom. So began their great love and married life... Mother was twenty years old at the birth of Yvonne and eighteen months later was born Alice."] She shot about 50 films and TV films from the 1950s - when she quickly became famous - to the 1990s, and also played in theatre. She gradually retired starting from the eighties due to two bouts of cancer. In 2021, she was hospitalized for three weeks after contracting

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Selected filmography

* '' Dortoir des grandes'' (1953) * “ Maternite Clandestine” (1953) * '' Scandal in Montmartre'' (1955) * '' Passionate Summer'' (1956) * ''

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'' (1956) * ''

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'' (1956) * '' Porte des Lilas'' (1957) * '' Élisa'' (1957) * '' Why Women Sin'' (1958) * ''

Girls for the Summer ''Girls for the Summer'' ( or US title: ''Love on the Riviera'') is a 1958 Italian romantic comedy drama film directed by Gianni Franciolini, based on story by Alberto Moravia. The film stars Alberto Sordi, Michèle Morgan, Marcello Mastroianni, S ...

'' (1958) * '' This Desired Body'' (1959) * '' The Goose of Sedan'' (1959) * ''

Mill of the Stone Women ''Mill of the Stone Women'' () is a 1960 Italian Gothic horror film directed by Giorgio Ferroni, starring Pierre Brice and Scilla Gabel. It follows a journalist writing a story on a sculptor in 19th-century Holland who falls in love with the ar ...

'' (1960) * '' The Hands of Orlac'' (1960) * '' The Enemy General'' (1960) * ''

Une souris chez les hommes ''Une souris chez les hommes'' () is a French comedy film from 1964, directed by Jacques Poitrenaud, written by Michel Audiard and Francis Ryck, starring Dany Saval and Louis de Funès Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza (; 31 July 1 ...

'' (1964) * '' Trap for Cinderella'' (1965) * ''

An Idiot in Paris ''An Idiot in Paris'' (French: ) is a 1967 French comedy film directed by Serge Korber and starring Dany Carrel, Jean Lefebvre and Bernard Blier.Rège p.279 Cast * Dany Carrel as Juliette dite 'La fleur' * Jean Lefebvre as Goubi * Bernard Blie ...

'' (1967) * '' A Little Virtuous'' (1968) * '' La prisonnière'' (1968) * '' Clérambard'' (1969) * '' Trois milliards sans ascenseur'' (1972) * '' Schools Falling Apart'' (1981)

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Dany Carrel in Cult Sirens
1932 births French film actresses French television actresses Living people 20th-century French actresses People from Da Nang French people of Vietnamese descent {{france-screen-actor-stub