Word: darrieux
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dangerous, Fragmentary. There were important distinctions, Naud conceded, that the film had blurred. Piaf, among others, simply sang to make a living, and often succeeded in cheering up the French in those grim years. On the other hand, Actress Danielle Darrieux, shown boarding a train to Germany in Let's Sing, acted in German films and entertained Nazi soldiers in army camps. Even more disturbing to French audiences were shots of Maxim's restaurant, which was jammed with German officers and French businessmen, and of high-living socialites of le tout Paris attending cocktail parties given by Otto...
Died. Anatole Litvak, 72, Russian-born film director best known for the original version of Mayerling (1936), starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux, and The Snake Pit (TIME cover, Dec. 20, 1948), starring Olivia de Havilland, which was acclaimed as Hollywood's first realistic examination of insanity; in Neuilly, France...
There are other rawly juxtaposed scenes: smiling French stars like Danielle Darrieux heading for Berlin to make films for the conquerors; an SS general being cordially greeted in Paris. Such things reveal one edge of Director Marcel Ophuls' purpose: anti-heroics. He tries to puncture the bourgeois myth-or protectively askew memory-that allows France generally to act as if hardly any Frenchmen collaborated with the Germans. The Sorrow and the Pity does that with a vengeance, but the bare facts of such an expose are hardly news. Happily, Ophuls, the son of noted Director Max Ophuls, also...