Mireille Balin
Known for: Acting
Born: July 18, 1909 in Monte Carlo, Monaco - Died: November 8, 1968
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.
Known for
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Marie des angoisses
Marie
Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation
Self (archival footage)
Pépé le Moko
Gaby, the Parisian
L'assassin a peur la nuit
Lola Gracieuse
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
Assunta
Si j'étais le patron
Marcelle
Weaker Sex
Nicole
Vive la classe
Vive la compagnie
Lilette
Girls of Paris
Gine
Captain Benoit
Véra Agatcheff
Gunshot
Countess Vilma Isopolska
Cas de conscience
Haut le vent
Gisèle Esteban
Malaria
The Trump Card
Bella Score
Lady Killer
Madeleine Courtois, l'aventurière
Threats
Denise
The Siege of the Alcazar
Carmen Herrera
Land of Fire
Georgette
Gambling Hell
Mireille
Golden Venus
Judith
We Found a Naked Woman
Denise
The Woman I Loved the Most
Claude's wife