Porfirio Rubirosa
Who was the spouse of Danielle Darrieux from 1942 to 1947?
Danielle Darrieux Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux ( ; 1 May 1917 – 17 October 2017 ) was a French actress of stage , television and film , as well as a singer and dancer . Beginning in 1931 , she appeared in more than 110 films . She was one of Frances great movie stars and her eight-decade career was among the longest in film history . Life and career . Darrieux was born in Bordeaux , France , during World War I , the daughter of Marie-Louise ( Witkowski ) and Jean Darrieux , a medical doctor who was serving in the French Army . Her mother was born in Algeria . Her father died when she was seven years old . Raised in Paris , she studied the cello at the Conservatoire de Musique . At 14 , she won a part in the musical film Le Bal ( 1931 ) . Her beauty combined with her singing and dancing ability led to numerous other offers ; the film Mayerling ( 1936 ) brought her to prominence . In 1935 , Darrieux married director/screenwriter Henri Decoin , who encouraged her to try Hollywood . She signed a seven-year contract with Universal Studios to star in The Rage of Paris ( 1938 ) opposite Douglas Fairbanks , Jr . Afterwards , she elected to return to Paris . Under the German occupation of France during World War II , Darrieux continued to perform , a decision that was severely criticized by her compatriots . However , it is reported that her brother had been threatened with deportation by , the German manager of Continental , the only film production company permitted in occupied France . She received a divorce and then fell in love with Porfirio Rubirosa , a Dominican Republic diplomat and notorious womanizer . They married in 1942 . His anti-Nazi opinions resulted in his forced residence in Germany . In exchange for Rubirosas freedom , Darrieux agreed to make a promotional trip in Berlin . The couple lived in Switzerland until the end of the war , and divorced in 1947 . She married scriptwriter Georges Mitsikidès in 1948 , and they lived together until his death in 1991 . Darrieux appeared in the MGM musical Rich , Young and Pretty ( 1951 ) . Joseph L . Mankiewicz lured her back to Hollywood to star in 5 Fingers ( 1952 ) with James Mason . Upon returning to France , she appeared in Max Ophüls The Earrings of Madame de.. . ( 1953 ) with Charles Boyer , and The Red and the Black ( 1954 ) with Gérard Philippe . She starred in Lady Chatterleys Lover ( 1955 ) , whose theme of uninhibited sexuality led to its being proscribed by Catholic censors in the United States . She played a supporting role in her last American film , United Artists epic Alexander the Great ( 1956 ) starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom . At the request of director Lewis Gilbert , Darrieux worked in England to shoot The Greengage Summer ( 1961 ) with Kenneth More . In 1963 , she starred in the romantic comedy La Robe Mauve de Valentine at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris . The play was adapted from the novel by Françoise Sagan . In Jacques Demys film musical The Young Girls of Rochefort ( 1966 ) her role was the only one in which a principal actor in any of Demys film-musicals sang his or her own musical parts . ( All other actors had a separate person dub their singing parts. ) During the 1960s , she also was a concert singer . In 1970 , Darrieux replaced Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway musical Coco , based on the life of Coco Chanel , but the play , essentially a showcase for Hepburn , soon folded without her . In 1971 and 1972 she also appeared in the short-lived productions of Ambassador . She worked again with Demy for his film Une chambre en ville ( 1982 ) , an opera-like musical melodrama reminiscent of the directors earlier work The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ( Les Parapluies de Cherbourg , 1964 ) . Once again , Darrieux provided her own vocals for her songs . Honors . For her long service to the motion picture industry , in 1985 she was given an Honorary César Award . She continued to work , her career spanning eight decades , most recently providing the voice of the protagonists grandmother in the animated feature , Persepolis ( 2007 ) , which deals with the impact of the Islamic revolution on a girls life as she grows to adulthood in Iran . Death . Danielle Darrieux died on 17 October 2017 , due to complications from a fall , five months after turning 100 that May . External links . - Danielle Darrieux at filmsdefrance.com - Photographs of Danielle Darrieux - LEncinémathèque at Encinémathèque - Danielle Darrieux ( Aveleyman )