Robin, Dany

(1927-1995)

   Actress. Dany Robin originally intended to be a dancer. She studied ballet and even danced professionally before studying drama at the Paris Conservatoire d'art dramatique. She made her screen debut in 1946, appearing in Marc Allegret's Lune-garde, and she went on to appear in more than fifty films during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Among the films in which Robin appeared are Marcel Carné's Les Portes de la nuit (1946), René Clair's Le Silence est d'or (1947), Henri Decoin's Les Amoureux sont seuls au monde (1948), Gilles Grangier's Jupiter (1952), Julien Duvivier's La Fête à Henriette (1952), Roger Richebé's Les Amants de minuit (1953), André Hunébelle's Cadet-Rouselle (1954) and Les Mystères de Paris (1962), Sacha Guitry's Napoléon (1955), Jacqueline Audry's L'École des cocottes (1958) and Le Secret du Chevalier d'Éon (1959), Jean-Paul Le Chanois's Mandrin (1962), and Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz (1969), her last film. A solid actress who was as capable of doing comedy as drama, Robin was also one of the bomb-shells of French cinema.

   Historical Dictionary of French Cinema by Dayna Oscherwitz & Mary Ellen Higgins