Danielle Darrieux

Although primarily a film actress, Darrieux appeared on the stage and in 1970, she replaced Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway production "Coco". All during the 1970s and through to the 21st century, Danielle Darrieux has continued to act in a remarkable career spanning eight decades. Filming of "Marie-Antoinette" is due to commence in February 2005. Throughout her career, her singing voice proved a positive and during the 1960s she sang at concerts and did recordings for a French record label. The forthcoming motion picture, scheduled for 2006, is to be directed by Sofia Coppola and is based on the biography of Marie-Antoinette by British historian, Lady Antonia Fraser. Successfully adapting to age, and a recognizable talent throughout Europe, she also made films in Germany, Italy, Spain, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. More recently, Dunst has also committed to playing the role of doomed 18th-century royal, Queen Marie Antoinette. However, in 1961 she went to England at the request of director Lewis Gilbert to star opposite Kenneth More in The Greengage Summer. She also lent her musical voice to the end credits of The Cat's Meow.

Despite a strong cast and a competent director, the film was a critical and box office failure and it was the last English-language film she would make in America. She made her singing debut in the 2001 film Get Over It, in which she performed two songs written by Marc Shaiman. Approaching the age of forty, she returned to Hollywood for a supporting role in United Artists' 1956 big budget epic Alexander the Great starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom. She and actor Jake Gyllenhaal recently broke up after dating for two years. Due to its sexual content, both the book and the film were banned in the United States. She won the 2002 Best Actress Silver Ombú at the Mar de Plata Film Festival for her performance as Marion Davies in Peter Bogdanovich's The Cat's Meow. Lawrence novel and the play by Philippe de Rothschild, it was adapted for the screen by co-writer and director, Marc Allégret. Her most famous performance to date was as Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man, reprised in Spider-Man 2.

The next year she starred as Lady Constance Chatterly in L'Amant de lady Chatterley (Lady Chatterly's Lover). Based on the D.H. This movie features the frowned-upon-scene in which Dunst, then aged eleven, had to kiss Brad Pitt, who was then twenty nine. Back home, she appeared in the 1954 French drama Le Rouge et le noir opposite Gérard Philipe, one of the country's biggest box office draws. Her breakthrough was in Interview with the Vampire, the film based on the Anne Rice novel of the same name and directed by Neil Jordan. Mankiewicz lured her back to Hollywood to star opposite James Mason in the acclaimed 1952 spy thriller 5 Fingers. She later made the transition to the big screen in her first film appearance, New York Stories, in 1989 and soon after landed a small part playing the daughter of Tom Hanks's character in The Bonfire of the Vanities, which also starred Melanie Griffith and Bruce Willis. Although she at once returned to her native France, the following year director Joseph L. She also appeared as an extra on one episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live (which she would guest host years later).

Once again she received very positive reviews for her performance in the 1951 MGM musical, Rich, Young and Pretty. She began her career at the age of three appearing in television commercials. At the end of World War II, Darrieux kept her successful career going and eventually accepted another offer to appear in a Hollywood production. Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey) is an American actress/singer. Rubirosa immediately married the American tobacco heiress, Doris Duke and Darrieux married her last husband, Pierre Louis. New York Stories (1989). Rubirosa was a notorious womanizer and the less than happy marriage ended within a few years and officially with a divorce in 1947. The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990).

However, under the German occupation of France she continued to perform, a decision that was severely criticized by her compatriots. She fell in love with Porfirio Rubirosa, a Dominican Republic diplomat posted to Paris and after divorcing her husband, they married in 1942. Greedy (1994). Although the film was well received by audiences and critics, World War II briefly interrupted her career. Interview with the Vampire (1994). in the sophisticated comedy The Rage of Paris. High Strung (1994). Offered numerous scripts, in 1938 she accepted a lucrative offer from Universal Studios to star opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Little Women (1994).

In 1935, Darrieux married director/screenwriter Henri Decoin who, after she had made more than two dozen successful films in France, encouraged her to try Hollywood. Jumanji (1995). Her youthful beauty combined with her singing and dancing ability in the 1931 film immediately led to numerous other film offers and she went on to a hugely successful and enduring career. Mother Night (1996). " At age 13, she auditioned for the role of a young girl in the musical film Le Bal and earned the part. Anastasia (1997). Raised in the city of Paris she had a good singing voice and was musically gifted, studying the cello at the "Conservatoire de musique. Wag the Dog (1997).

Born in Bordeaux, France, Darrieux was the daughter of a medical doctor who was at the time serving with the French Army during World War I but who later died unexpectedly when she was seven years old. True Heart (1997). Danielle Darrieux (born May 1, 1917) is a French singer and actress. Small Soldiers (1998). Strike! (1998). The Virgin Suicides (1999).

Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999). Dick (1999). The Crow: Salvation (2000). Luckytown (2000).

Bring It On (2000). Deeply (2000). All Forgotten (2000). Get Over It (2001).

Crazy/Beautiful (2001). The Cat's Meow (2001). Spider-Man (2002). Levity (2003).

Mona Lisa Smile (2003). Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). Spider-Man 2 (2004). Wimbledon (2004).

Elizabethtown (2005). Marie-Antoinette (2006).