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Gigi Perreau

 
Actor: Gigi Perreau
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  • Born: Feb 06, 1941 in Los Angeles, California
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '40s-'60s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
  • Career Highlights: There's Always Tomorrow, Family Honeymoon
  • First Major Screen Credit: Family Honeymoon (1948)

Biography

The daughter of French refugees, Gigi Perreau was born within a stone's throw of Hollywood. Registered with Central Casting as an infant, 18-month-old Gigi played Eve Curie as a baby in 1942's Madame Curie, and at two played young Fanny (who grew up to be Bette Davis) in Mrs. Skeffington. As soon as she was able to talk, Gigi was being groomed by her managers as a potential Margaret O'Brien replacement. A little less mannered and more versatile than O'Brien, Gigi was at her best in such roles as Ann Blyth's irksome kid sister in My Foolish Heart (1950) an emotionally disturbed murder witness in Shadow on the Wall (1950), and a yet-to-be-born child shopping around for suitable parents in the 1950 comedy/fantasy For Heaven's Sake (1950). As her film career faded, Perreau flourished briefly as a TV leading lady, with supporting roles on the 1959 sitcom The Betty Hutton Show and the 1961 adventure weekly Follow the Sun. Adult stardom eluded her however, and by 1967 she was retired. Gigi Perreau was the sister of two other juvenile performers, Janine Perreau and Richard Miles; in the early 1960s, Perreau and brother Richard managed a popular Los Angeles art gallery. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Gigi Perreau

with Sal Mineo signing autographs at the 1956 premiere of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Born Ghislaine Elizabeth Marie Thérèse Perreau-Saussine
February 6, 1941 (1941-02-06) (age 68)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1943–present

Gigi Perreau, (born February 6, 1941 in Los Angeles, California), is an American actress.

She achieved success as a child actress, but her career lost momentum as an adult. She played supporting roles in the 1959 sitcom The Betty Hutton Show on CBS, (with her older brother Gerald), and in the Follow the Sun television series on ABC from 1961-1962, in which she played secretary Katherine Ann "Kathy" Richards.

She appeared in 1960 on ABC's Stagecoach West as young woman eloping with her boyfriend, with a mysterious stranger in pursuit of the couple.

Gerald (stage names Peter Miles and Richard Miles) and, to a lesser extent, her younger sisters Janine and Lauren, also had a measure of success in film and on television.

She retired from acting in 1967. She was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her work in television.

Perreau is an alumna of Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles and has taught drama classes there.

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