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Mireille Balin
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Mireille Césarine Balin (born Blanche Mireille Césarine Balin; 20 July 1909, in Monte Carlo – 9 November 1968 in Paris) 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 …
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Mireille Césarine Balin (born Blanche Mireille Césarine Balin; 20 July 1909, in Monte Carlo – 9 November 1968 in Paris) 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 1945. She retired from film in 1947. Balin arrived in Hollywood in 1937 with a staff of servants and with 28 trunks containing "most of her worldly possessions. During the final 10 years of her life she lived in a "charitable home". Balin died in 1968, aged 59.
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La Dernière chevauchée
as Louise Valérian
Malaria
Haut le vent
as Gisèle Esteban
L'assassin a peur la nuit
as Lola Gracieuse
The Trump Card
as Bella Score
Gambling Hell
as Mireille
The Woman I Loved the Most
as Claude's wife
Fromont Young and Risler Elder
as Sidonie Chèbe
Threats
as Denise
The Siege of the Alcazar
as Carmen Herrera
Immediate Call
Cas de conscience
Gunshot
as Countess Vilma Isopolska
Land of Fire
as Georgette
Captain Benoit
as Véra Agatcheff
Golden Venus
as Judith
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
as Assunta
Lady Killer
as Madeleine Courtois, l'aventurière
Pépé le Moko
as Gaby, the Parisian
Girls of Paris
as Gine
Le Roman d'un spahi
as Cora
Marie des angoisses
as Marie
Si j'étais le patron
as Marcelle
We Found a Naked Woman
as Denise
Vive la compagnie
as Lilette
Don Quixote
as The Niece
No Poster
Weaker Sex
as Nicole
