Micheline Presle

Micheline Presle
Born	Micheline Nicole Julia Émilienne Chassagne 22 August 1922 (1922-08-22) (age 89) Paris, France
Other names	Micheline Prelle
Spouse	William Marshall (1950 - 1954)

Micheline Presle (born 22 August 1922) is a French actress also known in English language films as Micheline Prelle.

Born Micheline Nicole Julia Émilienne Chassagne in Paris, she wanted to be an actress from an early age. She took acting classes in her early teens and made her film debut at the age of fifteen in the 1937 production of La Fessée. In 1938 she was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as the most promising young actress in French cinema. Her rise to European stardom, in films such as Devil in the Flesh, led to offers from Hollywood and in 1950 she was signed by 20th Century Fox. Using the easier to pronounce last name of "Prelle," her first Hollywood production was a starring role opposite John Garfield in the film Under My Skin directed by Jean Negulesco. That same year director Fritz Lang cast her opposite Tyrone Power in the war drama American Guerrilla in the Philippines. In 1950 she became the second wife of American actor William Marshall with whom she had a daughter, Tonie. William Marshall had teamed up with actor Errol Flynn and his production company and in 1951 he directed her and Flynn in the film Adventures of Captain Fabian.

Presle's marriage did not last and she returned to France, divorcing Marshall in 1954. Her career flourished in French films and in 1957 she was a guest on the American Ed Sullivan Show. In 1959 she performed in the United Kingdom English-language production of Blind Date directed by Joseph Losey. She returned to Hollywood in 1962 for the role of Sandra Dee's mother in the Universal Studios film If a Man Answers which also featured Dee's husband, singer Bobby Darin. The following year Presle acted again in English in The Prize starring Paul Newman. She did not make another English film but after performing in for than fifty films in French, in 1989 she appeared in the French-made bilingual production I Want to Go Home for which she was nominated for the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

Presle continues to act both in film and on television, and over her career she has made more than one hundred and fifty films. One of her more recent appearances is Venus Beauty Institute.

Selected filmography

• La Nuit fantastique (1942)
• The Last Days of Pompeii (1950)
• Under My Skin (1950)
• It Happened in the Park (1953)
• Les Impures (1954)
• Napoléon (1965)
• Venere Imperiale (1962)
• Le Diable et les Dix Commandements (1963)
• Le Roi de Cœur (1966)
• Peau d'Âne (1970)
• The Legend of Frenchie King (1971)
• Thieves After Dark (1984)
• Les Misérables (1995)
• Chouchou (2003)
• A Man and His Dog (2009)

External links

• Micheline Presle at the Internet Movie Database
• Micheline Presle at AllRovi
• Micheline Presle at Allocine (French language)

Persondata
Name	Presle, Micheline
Alternative names	Prelle, Micheline
Short description	actress
Date of birth	August 22, 1922
Place of birth	Paris, France
Date of death
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