Mireille Balin
Mireille Césarine Balin (born Blanche Mireille Césarine Balin; 20 July 1909, in Monte Carlo – 9 November 1968 in Paris) was a French-Italian actress.
Balin was born near Monte Carlo. Her father, Charles Balin, was a French newspaper publisher. Her mother was Italian. Her education came at finishing schools. She was a policewoman in Paris until friends urged her to take a screen test.
Balin posed for some advertisements in Paris before she began acting in films. Considered one of the finest actresses of French cinema in the 1930s, she was discredited by her fraternization with the Nazis. During Nazi occupation of France, she became romantically involved with an officer of the Wehrmacht and at the end of war she was imprisoned in Fresnes until January 1945. She retired from film in 1947.
Balin arrived in Hollywood in 1937 with a staff of servants and with 28 trunks containing "most of her worldly possessions.
During the final 10 years of her life she lived in a "charitable home". Balin died in 1968, aged 59.

Marie des angoisses

Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation

Pépé le Moko

L'assassin a peur la nuit

Naples Under the Kiss of Fire

Si j'étais le patron
Le sexe faible

Vive la classe

Vive la compagnie

Girls of Paris

Captain Benoit

Gunshot

Cas de conscience

Haut le vent

Malaria

The Trump Card

Lady Killer

Threats

The Siege of the Alcazar

Land of Fire

Gambling Hell

Golden Venus

We Found a Naked Woman

The Woman I Loved the Most

Le Roman d'un spahi

Fromont Young and Risler Elder

Immediate Call

La dernière chevauchée
