
Mireille Balin
Biography
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.
Acting (28 movies)

Marie des angoisses
1935

Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation
2011

Pépé le Moko
1937

L'assassin a peur la nuit
1942

Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
1937

Si j'étais le patron
1934

Vive la classe
1932

Vive la compagnie
1934

Girls of Paris
1936

Captain Benoit
1938

Gunshot
1939

Cas de conscience
1939

Haut le vent
1942

Malaria
1943

The Trump Card
1942

Lady Killer
1937

Threats
1940

The Siege of the Alcazar
1940

Land of Fire
1939

Gambling Hell
1942

Golden Venus
1938

We Found a Naked Woman
1934

The Woman I Loved the Most
1942

Le Roman d'un spahi
1936

Fromont Young and Risler Elder
1941

Immediate Call
1939

La dernière chevauchée
1947

Don Quixote
1933
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