Corinne Calvet

Corinne Calvet
from the trailer for the film When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
Born	Corinne Dibos April 30, 1925(1925-04-30) Paris, France
Died	June 23, 2001 (aged 76) Los Angeles, California‹See Tfd›, U.S.
Years active	1945–1982
Spouse(s)	John Bromfield (1948–1954) (divorced) Jeffrey Stone (1955–1962) (divorced) 1 child Robert J. Wirt (1968–1971) (filed for divorce)

Corinne Calvet (April 30, 1925 – June 23, 2001) was a French actress who appeared mostly in American films.

Born Corinne Dibos in Paris, Calvet studied criminal law at the Sorbonne and made her debut in French radio, stage plays and cinema in the 1940s before being brought to Hollywood in the 1940s by producer Hal Wallis. He cast her in Rope of Sand (1949) opposite Burt Lancaster and Paul Henreid.

In the 1950s, Calvet appeared in a string of films, usually playing French characters, opposite such leading men as Danny Kaye (On the Riviera), Joseph Cotten (Peking Express), James Cagney (What Price Glory?), James Stewart (The Far Country), Alan Ladd (Thunder in the East), Tony Curtis (So This Is Paris) and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (Sailor Beware).

She continued to act in Italian and French productions as well as making appearances on American television series, with occasional roles in films. Her last film was in The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)

In her memoir, entitled Has Corinne Been a Good Girl? (1983), she stated that the roles she played for Hollywood studios never challenged her acting ability.

Calvet was married three times. Her first marriage was to actor John Bromfield (1948–17 March 1954), who had co-starred with her in Rope of Sand and who, she claimed had been ordered to marry her by his studio. She then married Jeffrey Stone (1955–1962) and Robert J. Wirt (1968–October 1971). All three marriages ended in divorce. She died in Los Angeles of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Selected filmography

• La Part de l'ombre (1945)
• Rope of Sand (1949)
• My Friend Irma Goes West (1950)
• When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
• On the Riviera (1951)
• Quebec (1951)
• Sailor Beware (1952)
• What Price Glory? (1952)
• The Far Country (1954)
• So This Is Paris (1955)
• Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons (1960)
• Apache Uprising (1966)
• Dr. Heckyl and Mr.Hype (1980)
• The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)

Bibliography

• Calvet, Corinne (1983). Has Corinne Been A Good Girl? : The Intimate Memoirs of a French Actress in Hollywood. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312364059. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Corinne Calvet

• Corinne Calvet at the Internet Movie Database
• Corinne Calvet at Allmovie
• Corinne Calvet at the TCM Movie Database
• Publicity still, Le Petit Journal (Montreal), Sept., 1949.
• The Private Life and Times of Corinne Calvet