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. She was born Gisèle Marie Madeleine Tallone at

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, France. Her first movie role was in 1942's '' L'Arlésienne''. For six years, she was involved in a relationship with Prince Rainier, and lived together in a villa in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, Rainier's sister, seeking to obtain the throne of Monaco for her own son, spread malicious rumors that Pascal was incapable of bearing children. A contemplated marriage was called off when a medical examination mistakenly reported that she was infertile. Pascal subsequently married actor Raymond Pellegrin on 8 October 1955 and had a daughter, Pascale Pellegrin, on 12 September 1962.

Stage credits

* ''Amour, Délices et orgues'' (also known as ''Collège Swing'') (1947) * ''Véronique'' (1949) * ''Boum sur Paris'' (1954)

Partial filmography

* '' L'Arlésienne'' (1942) - Vivette * '' The Beautiful Adventure'' (1942) - Hélène de Trévillac * '' Two Timid Souls'' (1943) - Une des jeunes filles * '' La Vie de bohème'' (1945) - Musette * '' Lunegarde'' (1946) - Élisabeth de Lunegarde * '' Madame et son flirt'' (1946) - Claudette Sauvaget * '' Les J3'' (1946) - Mademoiselle Bravard - la prof de philo * '' Dropped from Heaven'' (1946) - Madeleine * '' Loves, Delights and Organs'' (1947) - Micheline * '' Last Refuge'' (1947) - Antoinette Baron * '' After Love'' (1947) - Germaine By * '' Mademoiselle Has Fun'' (1948) - Christine Gibson * '' The Nude Woman'' (1949) - Loulou * '' The Chocolate Girl'' (1949) - Benjamine Lapistolle * '' Véronique'' (1950) - Estelle * '' Beautiful Love'' (1951) - Suzanne Gérard-Moulin * '' Endless Horizons'' (1953) - Hélène Boucher * '' Boum sur Paris'' (1953) - Giselle Pascal * ''

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'' (1954) - Louise de la Vallière * '' Women Without Hope'' (1954) - Marie-Thérèse Langeac * '' Fire Under Her Skin'' (1954) - Thérèse Rabou * '' Madonna of the Sleeping Cars'' (1955) - Lady Diana Wyndham * '' Mademoiselle from Paris'' (1955) - Micheline Bertier * '' If Paris Were Told to Us'' (1956) - Comtesse de G... * '' Pity for the Vamps'' (1956) - Jany Cristal-Davis * ''Sylviane de mes nuits'' (1957) - Gaby Lemontier * ''Ça n'arrive qu'aux vivants'' (1959) - Anne Brunier * '' Le Masque de fer'' (1962) - Mme de Chaulmes * ''Seul... à corps perdu'' (1964) - Lydia Simon * ''Secret World'' (1969) - Florence * '' Un caso di coscienza'' (1970) - Rosaria * '' At the Top of the Stairs'' (1983) - Rose * '' Les Compères'' (1983) - Louise * '' The Public Woman'' (1984) - Gertrude * ''Juillet en septembre'' (1988) - Madame Dewacker

References

External links

Obituary in The Independent
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