Mireille Balin
Actor
- Born
- July 19, 1909 · Monte Carlo, Monaco
- Died
- November 9, 1968 (age 59)
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.
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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.
Known for
Pépé le Moko
January 28, 1937
Lady Killer
September 15, 1937
Don Quixote
March 25, 1933
The Trump Card
September 2, 1942
The Siege of the Alcazar
January 2, 1940
Gambling Hell
April 11, 1942
Threats
January 11, 1940
L'assassin a peur la nuit
September 2, 1942
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
December 7, 1937
Le Roman d'un spahi
March 27, 1936
Si j'étais le patron
October 25, 1934
We Found a Naked Woman
May 18, 1934
Acting28
- 1947La Dernière chevauchée as Louise Valérian
- 1943Malaria
- 1942Haut le vent as Gisèle Esteban
- 1942L'assassin a peur la nuit as Lola Gracieuse
- 1942The Trump Card as Bella Score
- 1942Gambling Hell as Mireille
- 1942The Woman I Loved the Most as Claude's wife
- 1941Fromont Young and Risler Elder as Sidonie Chèbe
- 1940Threats as Denise
- 1940The Siege of the Alcazar as Carmen Herrera