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Danielle Darrieux: Henri Decoin
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Danielle Darrieux, die in mehr als hundert Filmen spielte, war drei Mal verheiratet. Nach der Scheidung von ihrem ersten Ehemann Henri Decoin im Jahre 1941, heiratete sie knapp ein Jahr später den Diplomaten Porfirio Rubirosa. Die Karriere des zwielichtigen Rubirosa war von Skandalen und Liebesaffären gekennzeichnet und das Paar ließ sich nach fünf Jahren Ehe wieder scheiden. Zum dritten Mal heiratete Darrieux 1948 Georges Mitsinkidès.
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Her performances for Decoin, impressive in their variety alone, were never less than convincing, but it was with Autant-Lara in the late 1940s and early 1950s that Darrieux distinguished her film career as a brilliant romantic actress. In Occupe-toi d'Amélie, an unashamedly theatrical Feydeau farce, she played with sparkling vivacity and considerable elegance the beautifully enticing but outrageously self-centered Amélie d'Avranches who delights in teasing her many suitors. In complete contrast was her later role as Madame de Rênal in Le Rouge et le noir. Now as a bored provincial falling selflessly in love with a proud and insecure young man, she gave a performance of great tenderness, maturity, and restraint, conveying with tremulous delicacy the powerful but guilty emotion she feels. In films directed by Max Ophüls her interpretation of romantic roles was further extended. In La Ronde her performance as the understanding married woman in bed with her lover beset by temporary impotence is exquisitely subtle in tone and timing.
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In 1935, Darrieux married director / screenwriter , Henri Decoin, who, after she had made more than two dozen successful films in France, encouraged her to try Hollywood. Offered numerous scripts, in 1938 she accepted a lucrative offer from Universal Studios to star opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in the sophisticated comedy The Rage of Paris. Although the film was well received by audiences and critics, World War II briefly interrupted her career. However, under the German occupation of France she continued to perform, a decision that was severely criticized by her compatriots, ignoring at the time that Craven, manager of the german Continental, intimidated her by hints about her brother probable departure to Germany. After her divorce with Henri Decoin she fell in love with Porfirio Rubirosa, a Dominican Republic diplomat posted in Paris. Rubirosa was a notorious womanizer and a lover, well in demand for the generous gift endowed to him by mother nature.
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