Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 19, 1909
Place of Birth:
Monte Carlo, Monaco
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.
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation | Self (archival footage) |
| 1947 | La dernière chevauchée | Louise Valérian |
| 1943 | Malaria | |
| 1942 | L'assassin a peur la nuit | Lola Gracieuse |
| 1942 | Haut le vent | Gisèle Esteban |
| 1942 | The Trump Card | Bella Score |
| 1942 | Gambling Hell | Mireille |
| 1942 | The Woman I Loved the Most | Claude's wife |
| 1941 | Fromont Young and Risler Elder | Sidonie Chèbe |
| 1940 | Threats | Denise |
| 1940 | The Siege of the Alcazar | Carmen Herrera |
| 1939 | Gunshot | Countess Vilma Isopolska |
| 1939 | Cas de conscience | |
| 1939 | Land of Fire | Georgette |
| 1939 | Immediate Call | |
| 1938 | Captain Benoit | Véra Agatcheff |
| 1938 | Golden Venus | Judith |
| 1937 | Pépé le Moko | Gaby, the Parisian |
| 1937 | Naples Under the Kiss of Fire | Assunta |
| 1937 | Lady Killer | Madeleine Courtois, l'aventurière |
| 1936 | Girls of Paris | Gine |
| 1936 | Le Roman d'un spahi | Cora |
| 1935 | Marie des angoisses | Marie |
| 1934 | Si j'étais le patron | Marcelle |
| 1934 | Vive la compagnie | Lilette |
| 1934 | We Found a Naked Woman | Denise |
| 1933 | Weaker Sex | Nicole |
| 1933 | Don Quixote | The Niece |
| 1932 | Vive la classe |
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