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. Cathy Downs has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6648 Hollywood Boulevard. 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. She worked sporadically in television during the 1960s but was unemployed for several years before her death in Los Angeles, California. Successfully adapting to age, and a recognizable talent throughout Europe, she also made films in Germany, Italy, Spain, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. By the beginning of the 1950s she was appearing in lower budget films, including some science fiction films, with one of these films Missile to the Moon marking her last screen appearance, in 1958. However, in 1961 she went to England at the request of director Lewis Gilbert to star opposite Kenneth More in The Greengage Summer. Following the success of the latter, Downs was cast in a prison drama For You I Die (1947), an Abbott & Costello comedy The Noose Hangs High, and several western films.

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. Born in Port Jefferson, New York, Downs began her film career with a small role in The Dolly Sisters (1945) and the following year played the title role in My Darling Clementine. 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. Cathy Downs (March 3, 1924 – December 8, 1976) was an American film actress. Due to its sexual content, both the book and the film were banned in the United States. Lawrence novel and the play by Philippe de Rothschild, it was adapted for the screen by co-writer and director, Marc Allégret.

The next year she starred as Lady Constance Chatterly in L'Amant de lady Chatterley (Lady Chatterly's Lover). Based on the D.H. 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. Mankiewicz lured her back to Hollywood to star opposite James Mason in the acclaimed 1952 spy thriller 5 Fingers. Although she at once returned to her native France, the following year director Joseph L.

Once again she received very positive reviews for her performance in the 1951 MGM musical, Rich, Young and Pretty. At the end of World War II, Darrieux kept her successful career going and eventually accepted another offer to appear in a Hollywood production. Rubirosa immediately married the American tobacco heiress, Doris Duke and Darrieux married her last husband, Pierre Louis. Rubirosa was a notorious womanizer and the less than happy marriage ended within a few years and officially with a divorce in 1947.

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. Although the film was well received by audiences and critics, World War II briefly interrupted her career. in the sophisticated comedy The Rage of Paris. Offered numerous scripts, in 1938 she accepted a lucrative offer from Universal Studios to star opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

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. 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. " At age 13, she auditioned for the role of a young girl in the musical film Le Bal and earned the part. Raised in the city of Paris she had a good singing voice and was musically gifted, studying the cello at the "Conservatoire de musique.

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. Danielle Darrieux (born May 1, 1917) is a French singer and actress.