Marcelle Derrien

Born in Saint-Leu La-Forêt, Marcelle Derrien studied drama at the Conservatoire and with René Simon. After appearing on the stage, she illuminated seven films with her fresh presence, only two being of some consequence, René Clair's Le silence est d'or (1947), where she plays a country girl who unwillingly goes to the head of both a filmmaker (Maurice Chevalier) and his adopted son (François Périer) and Pierre Billon's version of Colette's Chéri (1950) in which she is Edmée, Chéri's more or less imposed fiancée. Seven movies in five years and that was all. Marcelle Derrien had only been a shooting star.