Giselle Pascal: the actress who didn't become a princess

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The famous French actress Giselle Pascal could have become a real princess in her time, but fate turned out differently. However, she was able to find her happiness in her personal life, while becoming an important part of French classic cinema.

Short biography

Giselle Pascal was born on September 17, 1921 in a poor family in the south of France (Cannes). Parents worked in a grocery warehouse and lived in very cramped conditions, so the girl had to earn a living on her own. She graduated from a stenographer's course and got a job as a secretary.

Secretly from her parents, young Giselle attended a dance school. This allowed her to enter the world of art. It was in the dance hall that she met director Marc Allegre. He recommended her to the Claude Dauphine theater group, in which she made her debut in 1941.

After that, Giselle Pascal, whose photos are presented in this material, will try her hand at cinema. In addition, the girl gained great fame for her novels with famous people. They will be discussed later.

The actress died on 2007-02-02. At that time, she turnedeighty-five years.

Creative path

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 film "Arlesian". The decisive aspect in choosing the actress was not her beauty, but the Provençal accent, which ideally suited the image of the heroine.

Further, the young girl was invited only for the role of windy beauties. This did not allow her to reveal her talent to the fullest. Only in the fifties of the twentieth century, Giselle was able to embody dramatic images in the 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.

Thus Giselle Pascal, whose films have become world classics, moved from the images of a windy beauty to sharp-character roles.

List of famous paintings with the participation of the actress:

• "Two Shy";
• "Lady and her flirting";
• "Endless Horizons";
• "Mademoiselle from Paris";
• "Pity for the Vampires";
• Iron Mask;
• "Investigation of Commissioner Maigret";
• "At the top of the stairs";
• "Public Woman".

In total, the actress starred in thirty-eight films.

Private life

Interest in Giselle Pascal from the press came not only because of her work in the cinema. Journalists were much more attracted by information about her novels with famous people.

Once Upon a Time in Cannesthe actress met with the famous singer Yves Montand, who at that time was going through a break with Edith Piaf. A passionate romance began between people, about which all the media wrote. The romance faded as quickly as it came.

At the same time, Rainier Grimaldi (Prince of Monaco) persistently sought the attention of the actress. 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 impoverished Italian emigrants. The reason for the breakup was the news that Giselle would not be able to have children. This information plunged the thirty-year-old actress into depression, and Renier found a replacement for himself in the person of the famous Grace Kelly.

In 1953, fate brought the actress to the Hollywood handsome Gary Cooper. The press from all over the world wrote about their relationship. The novel ended as soon as the actor's wife and daughter arrived.

Happiness in his personal life came with the appearance of the French actor Raymond Pellegrin in it. He persistently courted the actress, divorced his first wife in order to link his fate with Giselle. In marriage, they had a daughter, Pascal. It happened in 1962, when the actress was forty-one years old. This event brought happiness to the couple and dispelled the myth of Giselle's infertility.

The husband survived his chosen one by only half a year, dying after her on 2007-14-10 at the age of eighty-two.