Dany Robin

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Claude Jade and Dany Robin in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz
Claude Jade and Dany Robin in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz

Dany Robin [IPA: dæni ʁɔbɑ̃)(born Danielle Robin) (14 April 1927 - 25 May 1995) was a French actress (Leading Lady in the 1950s and the early 1960s, that was married to fellow actor Georges Marchal. She performed with Peter Sellers in The Waltz of the Toreadors. Robin co-starred with Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, and Janis Paige in Follow the Boys (1963). Her last leading role was the agent's wife Nicole Devereaux in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz (1969). Hitchcock said that Robin and Claude Jade, cast as Robin's daughter, would provide the glamour in the story.

She was killed during a gas leak in her Paris flat when her husband Michael Sullivan (agent for Sid James and Kenneth Connor) lit up a cigarette. She was 68.

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