Mireille Balin

Acting Jul 19, 1909 Nov 9, 1968 (aged 59) Monte Carlo, Monaco

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.

29 Acting Credits

Mireille Balin

Acting

Pépé le Moko

Lady Killer

Don Quixote

The Trump Card

The Siege of the Alcazar

Gambling Hell

Threats

L'assassin a peur la nuit

Naples Under the Kiss of Fire

Le Roman d'un spahi

Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation

Si j'étais le patron

We Found a Naked Woman

Vive la classe

The Woman I Loved the Most

Fromont Young and Risler Elder

Marie des angoisses

Weaker Sex

Vive la compagnie

Girls of Paris

Captain Benoit

Gunshot

Cas de conscience

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