
Dany Robin
Actor · 1927 – 1995 · Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Dany Robin (14 April, 1927 – 25 May, 1995) was a French actress of the 1950s and the 1960s. Nicknamed ‘la petite fiancée de la France’ (France's little fiancée) in the post-war years, she became one of the leading female stars of the 1950s, moving from the role of ‘ingénue’ to that of saucy Parisienne. She played the leading lady in Topaz (1969), and is regarded as the last ‘Hitchcock blonde’. Robin was born Danielle Robin in Clamart. She performed with Peter Sellers in The Waltz of the Toreadors, and co-starred opposite Kirk Douglas in the 1953 romantic drama Act of Love. Robin co-starred with Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, and Janis Paige in Follow the Boys (1963). Her last leading role was the agent's wife Nicole Devereaux in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz (1969). Robin was married to fellow actor Georges Marchal. On 25 May 1995, she and her second husband, Michael Sullivan, died in a fire in their apartment in Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dany Robin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie6.0DramaThrillerCopenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
Topaz
1969 · 433 votes
Movie6.3DramaHistoryThe film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Movie6.7ComedyAmidst the French revolution, Citizen Robespierre is beheading the aristocracy! When word gets to England, noblemen Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy Pue take it upon themselves to aid their French counterparts. Sir Rodney is a master of disguise, and becomes 'The Black Fingernail' scourge of Camembert and Bidet, leaders of the French secret police.
Don't Lose Your Head
1967 · 63 votes
Movie6.6HistoryAdventureThe Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow -- unjustly accused of robbery -- to find her missing daughter.
Movie6.9DramaWarWhile on holiday on the French Riviera, former soldier Robert Teller recounts his time in WWII-era France, where he meets and falls in love with a poor girl named Lise. However, they're unable to marry when Lise is accused of prostitution and Teller's commanding officer forbids the match. The couple's love is again tested when Teller learns the truth about his would-be wife's whereabouts.
Movie4.4HistoryRomanceAn anthology of four historical love affairs: at Versailles, Louis XIV shares his mistress with one of his subjects; a courtesan tries to disfigure her lover with acid; a medieval wife faces the wrath of her husband's father, who has her condemned to death; and a stage actress provides advice on life and love to her young colleague.
Movie4.9ComedyRomanceThe seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.
Movie6.2DramaComedyA traveller is stuck in an unknown town because his connecting train will only arrive in six hours. He decides to kill time by taking a stroll. He is not prepared to get confused with somebody else. In fact the citizens are eagerly awaiting the visit of a famous man and the clueless traveller is his doppelgänger. Soon he experiences what that means.
Movie6.0RomanceComedyA story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.
Frou-Frou
1955 · 11 votes
Movie7.1ComedyTwo scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with sentimental love for a young photographer on Bastille Day. The other has a more thrilling and dastardly fate in mind for her. Among the film's irresistible conceits is Hildegarde Neff as an oversexed circus bareback rider.
Movie7.0DramaRomanceIn post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past.
Movie6.9RomanceComedyEmile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his younger friend Jacques come back from military service and after complaining his misfortune with women, follows Emile's advice in starting affairs with women and he meets Lucette.
Movie10.0ComedyRomanceA foreign pianist who comes to visit Paris is ripped off by a young man and his sister. But he soon falls in love with this one.
Movie5.0ComedyAt the end of a successful military career, womanising Leo Fitzjohn retires to his countryside manor with his unbearable family. When his platonic French mistress Ghislaine arrives at the door, Fitzjohn is prepared to take the relationship to the next level. However, Fitzjohn must compete for Ghislaine's affections against his own aide.
Waltz of the Toreadors
1962 · 13 votes
Movie6.4ComedyMusicNine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
Movie7.0ComedyWhen her godmother dies, Nicole's happiness collapses and her fiancé leaves her because she is ruined.
Movie7.0ComedyDramaA provincial chemist's daughter is to marry her cousin Gilbert.The day before he arrives, a stranger, who has just escaped from an insane asylum, claims he is the famous cousin.
Jupiter
1952 · 1 votes
Movie4.0ComedyIn Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of street prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.
The Best House in London
1969 · 9 votes
Movie6.1DramaTwo young men, one shy and one self-confident, spend a fast-paced night in Paris trying to pick up chicks. They confront every possible difficulty
Movie5.5ComedyDramaA film made up of four sketches. In Marc Allégret's Sophie, a naive high-school girl invents a love affair with her mother's lover. But it's a guitarist with whom she falls in love. In Françoise, by Claude Barma, a young woman returning to France after living in the United States has an affair with her best friend's lover. In Antonia, by Michel Boisrond, a middle-aged woman tries to convince her ex-lover that she still has many assets to seduce. In Ella, by Jacques Poitrenaud, a Pigalle dancer meets a man in a cab.
Movie10.0ComedyDramaA guardian, abusing his prerogatives, imposes on a young girl the husband he has chosen for her. On the very day of the wedding ceremony, the bride fled. She is picked up on the road by four bandits who are going on a business expedition. After many adventures, each as implausible as the next, the heroine will marry the man of her choice.
Le destin s'amuse
1946 · 1 votes
Movie6.3ComedyCrimeCatherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two policemen find their dead bodies on a stretch of waste ground. The case is obvious: the two young people have killed themselves. But why? Chief Inspector Ernest Plonche, feeling upset, decides to investigate personally.
Movie10.0ComedyAn actor, a great seducer, has a 20-year-old son (François Périer) to whom he gives advice that has always succeeded; however this son has difficulties with Corinne (Dany Robin) who considers herself his fiancée.
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Scheidungsgrund: Liebe
1960 · 3 votes
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TV8.0Talk ShowDiscorama
1959 · 1 votes
TV8.7DocumentaryFamilyCinépanorama
1956 · 3 votes