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Corinne Calvet

Corinne Calvet

Birthday: 1925-04-30 | Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Corinne Calvet (April 30, 1925 – June 23, 2001), born Corinne Dibos, was a French actress who appeared mostly in American films. Calvet made her debut in French radio, stage plays and cinema in the 1940s before being brought to Hollywood in the 1940s by producer Hal B. Wallis. He cast her in Rope of Sand (1949) opposite Burt Lancaster and Paul Henreid. In the 1950s, Calvet appeared in a string of films, usually playing French characters, opposite such leading men as Danny Kaye (On the Riviera), Joseph Cotten (Peking Express), Dan Dailey (When Willie Comes Marching Home), James Cagney (What Price Glory?), James Stewart (The Far Country), Alan Ladd (Thunder in the East), Tony Curtis (So This Is Paris) and twice with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (My Friend Irma Goes West and Sailor Beware). She made a rare television appearance on the Colgate Comedy Hour with Donald O'Connor on February 3, 1952, televised nationwide by NBC. Upset with her treatment in Hollywood, in 1960 Calvet "decided to return to France to make her headquarters." She continued to act in Italian and French productions as well as making appearances on American television series (Hart to Hart and General Hospital), with occasional roles in films. Her last film was The Sword and the Sorcerer in 1982. In her memoir, entitled Has Corinne Been a Good Girl? (1983), she stated that the roles she played for Hollywood studios never challenged her acting ability. In 1958, referring to being cast as a French temptress, she told an interviewer, "If I had come to Hollywood as a dramatic actress, I never would have been Corinne Calvet, and you never would have been sitting here talking to me." Description above from the Wikipedia article Corinne Calvet licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1979
She's Dressed to Kill

as    Colette

1977
Too Hot to Handle

as    Madame Ruanda

1974
The Phantom of Hollywood

as    Mrs. Wickes

1965
Apache Uprising

as    Janice MacKenzie

1962
1959
Plunderers of Painted Flats

as    Kathy Martin

1954
The Far Country

as    Renee Vallon

1954
So This Is Paris

as    Suzanne Sorel

1954
One Step to Eternity

as    Véra Volpone

1953
Powder River

as    Frenchie Dumont

1953
Thunder in the East

as    Lizette Damon

1953
Flight to Tangier

as    Nicki

1952
What Price Glory

as    Charmaine

1952
Sailor Beware

as    Corinne Calvet

1951
On the Riviera

as    Colette

1951
Peking Express

as    Danielle Grenier

1951
Quebec

as    Mme. Stephanie Durossac aka Le Fleur

1950
My Friend Irma Goes West

as    Yvonne Yvonne

1949
Rope of Sand

as    Mademoiselle Suzanne Renaud aka Aniseneletette Duringreaud