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Mireille Balin
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 Ca…
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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.
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1947
La Dernière chevauchée
Movie Louise Valérian
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1943
Malaria
Movie
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1942
Haut le vent
Movie Gisèle Esteban
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1942
The Trump Card
Movie Bella Score
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1942
L'assassin a peur la nuit
Movie Lola Gracieuse
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1942
Gambling Hell
Movie Mireille
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1942
The Woman I Loved the Most
Movie Claude's wife
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1941
Fromont Young and Risler Elder
Movie Sidonie Chèbe
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1940
Threats
Movie Denise
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1940
The Siege of the Alcazar
Movie Carmen Herrera
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1939
Immediate Call
Movie
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1939
Cas de conscience
Movie
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1939
Gunshot
Movie Countess Vilma Isopolska
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1939
Land of Fire
Movie Georgette
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1938
Captain Benoit
Movie Véra Agatcheff
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1938
Golden Venus
Movie Judith
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1937
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
Movie Assunta
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1937
Lady Killer
Movie Madeleine Courtois, l'aventurière
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1937
Pépé le Moko
Movie Gaby, the Parisian
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1936
Girls of Paris
Movie Gine
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1936
Le Roman d'un spahi
Movie Cora
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1935
Marie des angoisses
Movie Marie
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1934
Si j'étais le patron
Movie Marcelle
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1934
We Found a Naked Woman
Movie Denise
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1934
Vive la compagnie
Movie Lilette
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1933
Don Quixote
Movie The Niece
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1933
Weaker Sex
Movie Nicole
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1932
Vive la classe
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