Gisèle Préville

Gisèle Préville

Born	(1918-12-11)11 December 1918 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Died	26 November 2006(2006-11-26) (aged 87) Villiers-le-Bel, Val d'Oise, France
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1936-1987 (film)

Gisèle Préville (1918–2006) was a French film actress and beauty contestant.^[1] She entered the film industry after being crowned Miss Paris in 1934 and Miss France in 1935.^[2] While she mainly featured in French films, she also starred in the British films Against the Wind (1948) and The Dancing Years (1950).^[3]

Partial filmography

Adventure in Paris (1936) - Solange Surnisse
Beethoven's Great Love (1936) - (uncredited)
White Cargo (1937) - Béatrice Blanco
Trois artilleurs au pensionnat (1937)
Prison sans barreaux (1938) - Alice
Trois artilleurs en vadrouille (1938) - Monique Chabert
Mother Love (1938) - La jeune fille
Cocoanut (1939) - Nathalie
Nightclub Hostess (1939) - Lucienne Noblet
Paris-New York (1940) - Jane Billingham
Melody for You (1942) - Irène Daniel
Two Timid Souls (1943) - Cécile Vancouver
Vautrin (1943) - Madame de Maufrigneuse
Trente et quarante (1946) - Aurélia
The Adventures of Casanova (1947) - Esther Van Hope
Counter Investigation (1947) - Odette Marchal
Mirror (1947) - Anna Lussac
Criminal Brigade (1947) - Christine
Against the Wind (1948) - Julie
Return to Life (1949) - Lilian (segment 2 : "Le retour d'Antoine")
The Dancing Years (1950) - Maria Zeidler
The Turkey (1951) - Maguy Pacarel
Les mousquetaires du roi (1951)
It Happened All Night (1960) - Madame Lenormand
The President (1961)
Five Miles to Midnight (1962) - Mrs. Harrington
A Time for Loving (1972) - Amie Isadore (uncredited)
The Witness (1978) - Louise Maurisson
Docteur Jekyll et les femmes (1981) - Dr. Jekyll's mother
Nuit docile (1987) - L'amie de Simone Dubois (final film role)

References

^ "Gisèle Préville". BFI. Archived from the original on January 4, 2018.
^ "Gisèle PRÉVILLE". notreCinema.com.
^ Hayward p.242

Bibliography

Hayward, Susan. Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign. Continuum, 2004.

External links

Gisèle Préville at IMDb

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