| farah ashraf |
A French actress, born in Roubaix, Nord, France, as Pauline Arlette Ortmans. She got married three times and had no children. Her most important works are Queen's Necklace (1946), Pasha's Wives (1939), Sirocco (1938), and Panic (1946). She is one of the pioneers of French cinema, who stood on the stage of the Sarah Bernhardt Theater when she was 13 years old. She won the title of Miss Paris in 1930 and worked as a fashion model for some time before joining the troupe Moulin Rouge. She also participated in the Can Can show at the famous nightclub in Paris, Bal Tabarin, until the director Jean Renoir saw her and assigned her a role in the film La Chienne (1931). In the mid-thirties, she began performing starring roles, such as They Were Five in 1936. Afterward, she became a box-office star, producers sought her out, and she became sought after in the roles of kind-hearted courtesans and prostitutes. During the forties and fifties, she participated in French and Italian films, avoiding the trap of Hollywood cinema. She excelled in the movie Carmen (1944), and her best role was in the movie Panic (1946). When her popularity began to wane, she entered the world of production with her ex-husband Clément Duhour, but without noticeable success. In the early seventies, she returned to her artistic appearance, but through television, and ended her artistic career by appearing in her last cinematic work, the film The Nada Gang (1974). She died in Venice, Alpes, Maritimes, France, on September 25, 1991, from cancer.
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