Danièle Delorme: 'Gigi' 1949 actress and pioneering female film producer. Danièle Delorme: 'Gigi' 1949 actress was pioneering woman producer, politically minded 'femme engagée' Danièle Delorme, who died on Oct. 17, '15, at the age of 89 in Paris, is best remembered as the first actress to incarnate Colette's teenage courtesan-to-be Gigi and for playing Jean Rochefort's about-to-be-cuckolded wife in the international box office hit Pardon Mon Affaire. Yet few are aware that Delorme was featured in nearly 60 films – three of which, including Gigi, directed by France's sole major woman filmmaker of the '40s and '50s – in addition to more than 20 stage plays and a dozen television productions in a show business career spanning seven decades. Even fewer realize that Delorme was also a pioneering woman film producer, working in that capacity for more than half a century. Or that she was what in French is called a femme engagée...
- 12/5/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Yet more good news if you’re glad to see Bridesmaids director Paul Feig getting lots of work in the wake of the hit comedy – he’s just landed yet another gig, signing on to direct a new comedy pilot for HBO called The Viagra Diaries.Created by former Sex And The City overseer Darren Star, the show will star Goldie Hawn as a 65-year-old woman whose husband has what can only be described as a later-life crisis and leaves her. Suddenly single for the first time in 35 years, the plot will follow how Hawn’s character deals with her new situation.Sounds like Star isn’t wandering too far from his original show’s territory, just shoving the ages up a little bit. Plus, like Satc, it’s adapted from a book, this time one by Barbara Rose Brooker. Producers Alan, Wendy and Paul Riche (that would be a...
- 1/24/2012
- EmpireOnline
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