La Grande Illusion
Dalio was born Israel Moshe Blauschild in Paris to Romanian-Jewish immigrant parents. He trained at the Paris Conservatoire and performed in revues from 1920. Dalio appeared in stage plays from the 1920s and acted in French films in the 1930s. His first big film success was in Julien Duvivier's "Pépé le Moko" (1937). He followed them with two films for Jean Renoir, "La Grande Illusion" (1937) and "The Rules of the Game" ("La Règle du jeu", 1939).