Micheline Presle

Elegant, dark-haired Parisian Micheline Presle (billed in the U.S. as Micheline Prelle) was born on August 22, 1922, the daughter of a businessman whose surname was Chassagne. Taking acting classes as a teen, she was discovered by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and cast in Girls in Distress (1939) (portraying Jacqueline Presle, whose last name she chose as her own marquee name). Very early into her film career, she was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as the" most promising young actress" in French cinema. While Micheline proceeded to make movies during the Occupation with such offerings as Four Flights to Love (1940) (dual role), La comédie du bonheur (1940), Foolish Husbands (1941), Fantastic Night (1942), Twilight (1944), and Paris Frills (1945), she was regarded as an important young French star in the post -war years when she appeared in the classic films Angel and Sinner (1945) and, in particular, Devil in the Flesh (1947), both gaining her world-wide notice. After a brief post-war mar