Dany Robin

Dany Robin

Born: April 14, 1927
Died: May 25, 1995
in Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Dany Robin (born Danielle Robin, 14 April 1927 – 25 May 1995) was a French actress of the 1950s and the early 1960s who was married to fellow actor Georges Marchal.

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). Hitchcock said that Robin and Claude Jade, cast as Robin's daughter, would provide the glamour in the story.

She died with her husband, Michael Sullivan, during a fire in their apartment in Paris.

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Topaz
Title: Topaz
Character: Nicole Devereaux
Released: December 17, 1969
Type: Movie
Copenhagen, 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.
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The Best House in London
Title: The Best House in London
Character: Babette
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.
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Carry On Don't Lose Your Head
Title: Carry On Don't Lose Your Head
Character: Jacqueline
Released: December 10, 1966
Type: Movie
The time of the French revolution, and Citizen Robespierre is beheading the French aristocracy. When word gets to England, two 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.
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Rope Around the Neck
Title: Rope Around the Neck
Released: August 4, 1965
Type: Movie
Arthur can no longer stand married life. He wants to get rid of his wife and live with his mistress. In doing so, he makes a mistake and kills his mistress Clara. But did he really commit the crime? His wife is accused. Who killed Clara?
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X-Ray of a Killer
Title: X-Ray of a Killer
Released: March 31, 1965
Type: Movie
The murder of a bandit gives a policeman the opportunity to unmask the activities of a spy.
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How Do You Like My Sister?
Title: How Do You Like My Sister?
Character: Martine Jolivet
Released: March 4, 1964
Type: Movie
The brother of a delinquent schoolboy falls in love with his teacher and intrigues to make him reciprocate her love, and succeeds.
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Follow the Boys
Title: Follow the Boys
Character: Michele
Released: February 27, 1963
Type: Movie
Four women create mayhem as they follow their Navy partners around the Riviera.
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Mandrin met le feu aux poudres
Title: Mandrin met le feu aux poudres
Character: Baroness d'Escourt
Released: December 19, 1962
Type: Movie
It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people, suffocated by taxes, liked their beloved Louis less and less. When the governor of Dauphiné arrived in Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, he had to deal with opponents of the regime who had gathered around cooper Louis Mandrin. Mandrin becomes the vigilante who respects his king, but does not tolerate the oppression of the poor through taxation.
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Mandrin, bandit gentilhomme
Title: Mandrin, bandit gentilhomme
Character: la baronne d'Escourt
Released: December 19, 1962
Type: Movie
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The Mysteries of Paris
Title: The Mysteries of Paris
Character: Irène
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: Movie
The 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.
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Conduite à gauche
Title: Conduite à gauche
Character: Catherine
Released: June 13, 1962
Type: Movie
It all happens in a hospital waiting room. While his young wife has just had a serious accident and is undergoing surgery, the husband relives, in his memory, the reality of their near past, or what he would have liked his marital union to be. At the outset, this young couple took as their model the famous couple from "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" and their line of conduct: complete freedom for everyone, as long as they confide in each other about their adventures.
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Waltz of the Toreadors
Title: Waltz of the Toreadors
Character: Ghislaine
Released: April 12, 1962
Type: Movie
General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and satisfying career as a seducer extraordinaire, something always seems to get in the way of his bedding the breathtakingly lovely Ghislaine, a more-than-willing town local.
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Tales of Paris
Title: Tales of Paris
Character: Antonia (segment "Antonia")
Released: January 17, 1962
Type: Movie
A 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.
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Famous Love Affairs
Title: Famous Love Affairs
Character: Mme de Monaco
Released: November 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
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Love and the Frenchwoman
Title: Love and the Frenchwoman
Character: Nicole Perret, l'épouse frivole (L'Adultère)
Released: September 16, 1960
Type: Movie
The 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.
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Scheidungsgrund: Liebe
Title: Scheidungsgrund: Liebe
Character: Marylin
Released: August 25, 1960
Type: Movie
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The Great Deception
Title: The Great Deception
Character: la comtesse De Monval, l'envoyée spéciale du Roi Louis XV
Released: September 23, 1959
Type: Movie
Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit his inheritance to his son Pascal. At least this is what he thinks, for Pascal has concealed from his father the fact that his son was ... a daughter, his eighth daughter! Well, enough is enough and Geneviève has no other choice but become a boy first, then a soldier and even the special envoy of Louis XV, King of France, to Catherine II, the Czarina of Russia.
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The Chasers
Title: The Chasers
Character: Denise
Released: April 29, 1959
Type: Movie
Two men spend a night in Paris trying to pick up women.
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Title: Discorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: TV
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Follow Me Young Man
Title: Follow Me Young Man
Character: Françoise
Released: December 3, 1958
Type: Movie
Françoise, a charming young saleswoman for a leading jeweller, is being courted in vain by a billionaire shipowner. He attributes her failure to the existence of a rival, and decides to have her followed by a private detective. Françoise, commissioned by her boss to transport a valuable necklace to Cannes, is accompanied by a bodyguard charged with her safety. Françoise, the bodyguard and the detective meet on the train and a series of misunderstandings ensue.
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Mimi Pinson
Title: Mimi Pinson
Character: Mimi Pinson
Released: July 22, 1958
Type: Movie
Dany Robin plays the title character in the French comedy Mimi Pinson. The plot is strictly formula stuff, with Mimi being thwarted on all sides by those who have designs on her money and her virtue. Happily, our heroine triumphs over her foes and predators, finding true romance in the arms of Raymond Pellegrin.
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School for Coquettes
Title: School for Coquettes
Character: Ginette Masson
Released: May 21, 1958
Type: Movie
A young Parisian woman attends a school for coquettes in order to rise in society.
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When Will it Strike Noon
Title: When Will it Strike Noon
Character: Christine Dumartin
Released: May 6, 1958
Type: Movie
The small South American republic of Guadalarma is under the rule of despot Don Salvador, surrounded by a civil guard, his mistress (La Morenita), his henchman (Don Ramón) and the fortress governor (the venal Don Gaspar). One morning, the city's French jeweler Michel Dumartin receives a visit from a client named José Llanos, one of the regime's fiercest opponents. Llanos is soon denounced and shot dead by Salvador's men. At the same time, Dumartin was accused of complicity with the rebels. Arrested and imprisoned in the fortress, he is ripe for the death penalty.
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In Six Easy Lessons
Title: In Six Easy Lessons
Character: Eléonore 'Nora' de Savigny
Released: February 26, 1958
Type: Movie
A bossy count has trouble marrying off any of his six sons. When one of them, Adam, finally makes wedding arrangements, something happens to his bride to be: she develops amnesia after an accident.
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Let's Be Daring, Madame
Title: Let's Be Daring, Madame
Character: Danielle
Released: June 7, 1957
Type: Movie
Two couples of friends who have arranged to meet in the woods get lost and find themselves in an embarrassing situation: the husband of one with the wife of the other? Each couple tries to get through this forced cohabitation honestly, but everything is turned upside down when two young Sunday gangsters appear. What follows is a cross-country chase through the woods, which leads the whole gang back to the house, where one of the couples manages to leave, free at last, on an old tandem, bound for... Africa!
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Good Evening Paris
Title: Good Evening Paris
Character: Annick Bernier
Released: December 14, 1956
Type: Movie
A 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.
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It Happened in Aden
Title: It Happened in Aden
Character: Albine
Released: August 22, 1956
Type: Movie
During a stopover in Aden, a charming actress is kidnapped by an Arab prince.
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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV
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Maid in Paris
Title: Maid in Paris
Character: Penny Benson
Released: January 20, 1956
Type: Movie
Penelope Benson, known as Penny, is both romantic and determined. Put in a select boarding school by her mother, she takes advantage of a trip to Paris to get away from it all and live her own life. That's how she meets Antoine du Merlet, whom she takes for a young hoodlum when in fact he's a police superintendent. She spends the night at his place, which leads to a number of setbacks for poor Antoine, who is stigmatized by the headmistress, abandoned by his mistress and has to face a strip-tease session starring the unconscious Penny... But Penny's a spicy one and Antoine's a nice guy, so... !
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Frou-Frou
Title: Frou-Frou
Character: Antoinette Dubois dite « Frou Frou »
Released: June 19, 1955
Type: Movie
A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.
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Napoleon
Title: Napoleon
Character: Désirée Clary
Released: March 25, 1955
Type: Movie
The 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.
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Intermediate Landing in Paris
Title: Intermediate Landing in Paris
Character: Michèle Tellier dite 'Baby Face'
Released: March 16, 1955
Type: Movie
Michèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly flies the route from New York to Paris, but problems arise when he is transferred to the Tokyo route. Meanwhile Michèle's uncle Albert who works in the freight department sets out to tackle a drug trafficking outfit.
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Cadet Rousselle
Title: Cadet Rousselle
Character: Violetta Carlino
Released: October 20, 1954
Type: Movie
The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortune. He thinks he knows love with Violeta, a dancer in a band of comedians but ends up involved in a monarchist plot.
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The Rebels of Lomanach
Title: The Rebels of Lomanach
Character: Monique de Lomanach
Released: April 6, 1954
Type: Movie
A young woman has a perilous affair with a General from the opposing side during the Revolutionary war.
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The Anatomy of Love
Title: The Anatomy of Love
Character: L'innamorata
Released: March 16, 1954
Type: Movie
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
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Act of Love
Title: Act of Love
Character: Lise Gudayec
Released: December 17, 1953
Type: Movie
An American soldier romances a beautiful Parisian during the final days of World War II.
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Julietta
Title: Julietta
Character: Julietta Valendor
Released: June 17, 1953
Type: Movie
Julietta is a French comedy comedy romance film from 1953, directed by Marc Allégret, written by Françoise Giroud, starring Dany Robin and Jean Marais. Film was based on a novel of Louise de Vilmorin.
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The Lovers of Midnight
Title: The Lovers of Midnight
Character: Françoise Letanneur
Released: April 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Marcel, rich and alone for Christmas, invite Françoise to celebrate whim him. Soon, the fairy tale turns into a bad dream.
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She and Me
Title: She and Me
Character: Juliette Capulet
Released: December 31, 1952
Type: Movie
You never can tell. Jean had always been one of the most confirmed bachelors that kept swearing to anyone that would listen he would never put a ring on a female finger. But that was before he met Juliette, a capricious but irresistibly lovely young woman. Well, what else can you do when you fall dead in love with a creature of the kind? And too bad if their honeymoon proved catastrophic. To say nothing of their housing problems : what to do when neither husband nor wife has any money? How to build one's love nest when the housing crisis rages? How to get by when your wife has luxury tastes?
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Holiday for Henrietta
Title: Holiday for Henrietta
Character: Henriette
Released: December 17, 1952
Type: Movie
Two 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.
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Jupiter
Title: Jupiter
Character: Yvette Cornet
Released: August 27, 1952
Type: Movie
A 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.
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Young Love
Title: Young Love
Character: Catherine Mareuil
Released: November 14, 1951
Type: Movie
Catherine, 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.
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Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Title: Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Character: Thérèse Desforges, la vendeuse de fleurs
Released: October 31, 1951
Type: Movie
Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her relatives in the province bristling with false respectability, or her lustful employer, or the boy she loves who seduces her and abandons her. But at the end of the day there is Yvon, her childhood friend. Will he be the one that will love her truly?
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The Prettiest Sin in the World
Title: The Prettiest Sin in the World
Character: Zoé
Released: August 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Zoé, a pretty penniless girl, decides on the advice of her neighbor to embark on gallantry. After a brief failure, she meets a young boy, Jacques Lebreton who is about to get married. After causing the failure of this arranged marriage, she will have to play the role of wife of Jacques with his family, until the arrival of the uncle from America.
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Thirst of Men
Title: Thirst of Men
Character: Julie
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
The establishment of a French family who came to cultivate vines in Algeria.
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Au p'tit zouave
Title: Au p'tit zouave
Character: Hélène
Released: March 16, 1950
Type: Movie
Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake up the daily life of the regulars.
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The Unexpected Voyager
Title: The Unexpected Voyager
Character: Dany
Released: January 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Marc, a photographer, works out of love to help Dany, a car thief, to get back on the right track: he offers her to work with him, as a model. But the former accomplices of the young woman compromise this action.
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The Passenger
Title: The Passenger
Character: Nicole Vernier
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
When her godmother dies, Nicole's happiness collapses and her fiancé leaves her because she is ruined.
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Monelle
Title: Monelle
Character: Monelle Picart, la jeune pianiste
Released: September 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.
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A Girl Knew
Title: A Girl Knew
Character: Corinne
Released: March 26, 1948
Type: Movie
An 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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The Fan
Title: The Fan
Character: Martine
Released: June 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Martine is a lonely girl in an exclusive boarding school who conjures up a glamorous existence in order to make her dull life tolerable and to impress the other girls. One of her flights of fancy is a love affair with Brevannes, a famous composer. She leaves the school and goes to the French Alps to find the life she's only dreamed about, where she meets Brevannes and a December-May romance develops until she meets a young mountain guide, Henri Vidal.
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Silence Is Golden
Title: Silence Is Golden
Character: Lucette
Released: May 21, 1947
Type: Movie
Emile 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.
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Six Hours to Lose
Title: Six Hours to Lose
Character: Rosy
Released: January 22, 1947
Type: Movie
A 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.
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Le destin s'amuse
Title: Le destin s'amuse
Character: Gabrielle
Released: December 13, 1946
Type: Movie
A 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.
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Gates of the Night
Title: Gates of the Night
Character: Étiennette
Released: December 3, 1946
Type: Movie
Paris, during the winter after its Liberation: Jean Diego meets up with his friend Raymond Lecuyer again. A tramp predicts Jean will meet the most beautiful girl in the world, and that same evening Jean meets Malou. But he soon discovers that her brother Guy was the one that gave his friend Raymond away to the Gestapo...
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Lunegarde
Title: Lunegarde
Character: Martine
Released: January 16, 1946
Type: Movie
A drifting woman hangs out in the suburbs of Marseille. A young engineer picks her up drunk and takes her to the hospital. He does not know then that it is the Countess Armance de Lunegarde, driven from her home and performing as a gummy in third-rate music halls.