Remembering Danielle Darrieux on her birthday 🎂
📷 Boris Lipnitzki, 1935
"A Hollywood-style glamorous star for the French, to the end she remained the epitome of chic Parisian style."
- Ginette Vincendeau
Danielle Darrieux with Charles Boyer & Louise de Vilmorin on the set of Max Ophuls' The Earrings of Madame de...
📷 Robert Doisneau, April 1953
Danielle Darrieux in her dressing room in The Ambassadeurs Theatre in Paris
📷 Jean-Claude Deutsch, 1966
Willy Ronis's portrait of Danielle Darrieux was taken in natural light, in Paris, 1980.
"I carry out my work with a borrowed Canon (the shutter of my Foca had just failed), at the Marigny Theatre, where the great actress is rehearsing a new play."
Sometimes subjects at Studio Harcourt in Paris can look a bit staid, but that doesn't work with Danielle Darrieux. It's glamour all the way. This shot is from 1949.
I loved Michel Piccoli & Danielle Darrieux so much in Jacques Demy's Les Demoiselles De Rochefort. Two veterans who brought as much energy to their roles as the younger actors. And so much glamour, style & grace as well.
📷 Hélène Jeanbrau, 1967
#stillonset
An undated portrait of Danielle Darrieux by Roger Corbeau
"Danielle Darrieux appears with her hair bundled on top of her head in Mayerling, and a few months later, all the girls are building bird’s nests in their tresses."
- Bosley Crowther
Another portrait of Danielle Darrieux by Studio Harcourt, from 1948
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Jacques Demy on the set of Une Chambre en Ville, with Danielle Darrieux & Michel Piccoli
📷 Moune Jamet, 1982
One of my favourite Demy films.
Danielle Darrieux in the Broadway production of the musical "Ambassador"
📷 Martha Swope, 1972
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A musical based on Henry James' novel? A sure-fire hit!
My favourite Danielle Darrieux portrait by Sam Lévin, from 1947
Sam Lévin took many photographs of Danielle Darrieux. Here he's setting up another, perhaps some time in the late 1940s.
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Danielle Darrieux by Toni Frissell for Vogue, 1938
Danielle Darrieux by David Scherman, late 1930s
Danielle Darrieux in Benoît Jacquot's Corps et Biens
📷 Julio Donoso, 1986
Darrieux appeared in 110 films from 1931 to 2010. She died in October 2017, five months after her 100th birthday.
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