Dora Doll

Dora Doll the daughter of a RussianJewish banker who was expelled after the 1917 Revolution was born in Berlin in 1922 She came to France at the end of the 1930s and aspired to become an actress She already spoke Russian and German and soon learned French then Italian and English One of her first screen appearances was as Juliette in HenriGeorges Clouzots Manon 1949 She appeared as Lola in Jacques Beckers Touchez pas au grisbi 1954 and as Genisse in Jean Renoirs French Cancan 1955 In 1976 she appeared on television in the French series Hôtel Baltimore in the role of Suzy In 1977 she appeared in Fred Zinnemanns Julia as the woman passenger accompanying Lillian Hellman Jane Fonda when Lily smuggled 50000 through Nazi Germany for her friend Julia Vanessa Redgrave In 1982 she played in Ettore Scolas That Night in Varennes In the late 1990s she played the grandmother Louise Chantreuil in the TV series Tide of Life She was married twice Her first husband was the actor Raymond Pellegrin who she had a daughter with Danielle She was later married to François Deguelt In 1993 Dora Doll was awarded the Prix Reconnaissance des cinéphiles from PugetThéniers in honour of her lifes work She was made Knight of Frances National Order of Merit in 2000 Dora Doll died on 15 November 2015 at her home in Gard France at the age of 93 Source Article Dora Doll de Wikipédia en français soumis à la licence CCBYSA