The famous French actress Gisele Pascal at one time could become a real princess, but fate turned out differently. Nevertheless, she was able to find her happiness in her personal life, while becoming an important part of French classical cinema.
short biography
Gisele Pascal was born on September 17, 1921 in a poor family in the south of France (Cannes). Parents worked at the grocery warehouse and lived in very cramped conditions, so the girl had to earn a living on her own. She graduated from stenographer courses and got a job as a secretary.
Secretly from her parents, young Giselle attended a dance school. This allowed her to get into the world of art. It was in the dance hall that she met with director Mark Allegre. He recommended her to the Claude Dauphin theater group, in which she made her debut in 1941.
After that, Gisele Pascal, whose photo is presented in this material, will try her hand at cinema. In addition, the girl gained great fame for her novels with famous people. We will talk about them later.
The actress died on 02.02.2007. At that time she was eighty-five years old.
Creative way
The film debut of Gisele Pascal took place in 1942. The young actress was chosen as a partner by the famous comedian Jules Remus for the picture “Arlesian”. The decisive aspect when choosing an actress was not her beauty, but the Provencal accent, which was ideally suited to the image of the heroine.
Further, the young girl was invited only to the roles of windy beauties. This did not allow her to fully reveal her talent. Only in the fifties of the twentieth century was Giselle able to translate dramatic images into cinema. Since the sixties of the last century, the famous actress has devoted herself to television. By the eighties of the twentieth century, she returned to the cinema, embodying age roles.
So Gisele Pascal, films with the participation of which entered the world classics, from the images of the windy beauty switched to striking roles.
List of famous paintings featuring the actress:
- "Two shy";
- "Lady and her flirt";
- "Endless horizons";
- "Mademoiselle from Paris";
- "Pity for the vampires";
- "Iron mask";
- “Investigation of Commissioner Megre”;
- "At the top of the stairs";
- "Public woman."
In total, the actress starred in thirty-eight films.
Personal life
The interest in Gisele Pascal from the press came not only thanks to her work in the cinema. Journalists were much more interested in information about her novels with famous people.
Once in Cannes, the actress met with the famous singer Yves Montand, who at that time was experiencing a break with Edith Piaf. A passionate romance began between people, about which all the media wrote. The novel died away as quickly as it arose.
At the same time, the attention of the actress persistently sought Rainier Grimaldi (Prince of Monaco). Soon the couple began to appear together in public and announced their engagement. The prince's family intervened in the relationship, whose representatives did not want to allow kinship with the poor Italian immigrants. The reason for the separation was the news that Giselle could not have children. This information plunged the thirty-year-old actress into a depression, and Rainier found a replacement for himself in the person of the famous Grace Kelly.
In 1953, fate brought the actress with the Hollywood handsome Gary Cooper. The press of the whole world wrote about their relationship. The novel ended as soon as the wife and daughter arrived at the actor.
Happiness in his personal life came with the appearance of the French actor Raymond Pellegren in it. He persistently courted the actress, divorced his first wife in order to connect his fate with Giselle. In marriage, their daughter Pascal was born. It happened in 1962, when the actress turned forty-one. This event brought the spouses happiness and dispelled the myth of Gisele infertility.
The husband outlived his chosen one only six months, dying after her on 10/14/2007 at the age of eighty-two.