Dora Doll (born Dorothea Hermina Feinberg; 19 May 1922 – 15 November 2015) was a French actress.
Career
Dora Doll, the daughter of a Russian-Jewish banker who was expelled after the
1917 Revolution
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, was born in Berlin in 1922. She came to France at the end of the 1930s and aspired to become an actress. She already spoke Russian and German and soon learned French, then Italian and English. She enrolled as an auditor at the
Conservatoire
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in the course taught by
Louis Jouvet
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Early life
Jouvet was born in Crozon. He had a Stuttering, stutter as a young man and originally trained as a pharmac ...
who took a liking to her and chaperoned her stage debut.{{Web link, author= , title=Adieu Dora Doll: None of her partners could resist her! , url=http://www.francedimanche.fr/infos-people/cinema/adieu-dora-doll-aucune-de-ses-partenaires-ne-lui-resistait/ , date=November 24, 2015 , site= francedimanche.fr , accessed on=February 1, 2017.
One of her first screen appearances was as Juliette in
Henri-Georges Clouzot
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's ''
Manon
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'' (1949). She appeared as Lola in
Jacques Becker
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's ''
Touchez pas au grisbi
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'' (1954) and as Genisse in
Jean Renoir
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's '' French Cancan'' (1955).
In 1976, she appeared on television in the French series ''Hôtel Baltimore'' in the role of Suzy. In 1977, she appeared in
Fred Zinnemann
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's '' Julia'' as the woman passenger accompanying Lillian Hellman (
Jane Fonda
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) when Lily smuggled $50,000 through Nazi Germany for her friend Julia (
Vanessa Redgrave
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). In 1982, she played in
Ettore Scola
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's ''
That Night in Varennes
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''. In the late 1990s, she played the grandmother Louise Chantreuil in the TV series ''
Tide of Life
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starring: (Gérard Chantreuil), Claude Jade (Anna Chantreuil), (Brice Chantreuil), (Louise Chantreuil), ...
''.
Personal life
She was married twice. Her first husband was the actor Raymond Pellegrin, who she had a daughter with, Danielle. She was later married to
François Deguelt
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Biography
Deguelt gave up his studies to b ...
.
In 1993, Dora Doll was awarded the Prix "Reconnaissance des cinéphiles" from Puget-Théniers in honour of her life's work. She was made Knight of France's National Order of Merit in 2000.
Dora Doll died on 15 November 2015 at her home in
Gard
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* ''
Night in December
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Savage Triangle
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* ''Calle Mayor'' (film), a 1956 Spanish film
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See also
* Main Street (disambiguation)
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The Enigma of the Folies-Bergere
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Une souris chez les hommes
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Boomerang
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Tide of Life
''Tide of Life'' ("Cap des Pins") is the first French French television soap opera that is released every week-day. (1998–2000).
starring: (Gérard Chantreuil), Claude Jade (Anna Chantreuil), (Brice Chantreuil), (Louise Chantreuil), ...