Denise Darcel

Denise Darcel

Denise Darcel was a French vaudevillian, actress and singer, who from 1948 through 1963, appeared in films in Hollywood, and briefly on theatre, television and radio. Darcel's debut on the legitimate stage came in 1950, when she appeared in Pardon Our French, premiering October 5th, at the Broadway Theatre. Her first film appearance of note was in Battleground (1949). She made quite an impression in Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950) opposite Lex Barker, then co-starred with Robert Taylor in Westward the Women (1952) and Glenn Ford in Young Man with Ideas (1952). In 1953, she was seen in the swimming musical Dangerous When Wet, which starred Esther Williams (1953). Her most important film was Vera Cruz (1954) where she played the female lead opposite Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster. Her last film (1961) was Seven Women from Hell. Darcel appeared on various TV shows in the 1950s. In 1954, she was hostess/MC of Gamble on Love, a summer program on the DuMont Television Network. Darcel asked questions of married couples who sought to win the grand prize of a mink coat. A review in Billboard described her as "Gallic to the point of unintelligibility." Also in 1954, Colonel Productions produced a pilot of Chez Denise, a 30-minute "comedy-intrigue" program starring Darcel, which apparently did not sell. After her film and television career began to wane, Darcel, aged 41, became a stripper, appearing in West Coast theatres in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Oakland, and Los Angeles. She retired from stripping after a few years and returned to the cabaret circuit, making a few appearances on television. In 1991,[she was cast as "Solange La Fitte" in the Los Angeles 20th anniversary revival of the musical Follies, produced by the Long Beach Civic Light Opera. She would later repeat the role of Solange in 1995 for revivals in Houston and Seattle. In September 2009, she was honored with the Cinecon Career Achievement Award, presented in Hollywood at a banquet held at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel. Prior to the ceremony, a new 35mm color print of her 1953 film, Flame of Calcutta, was screened at the Egyptian Theatre. After the screening, at the banquet, she cheerfully announced to the audience, "I'm back".

  • Title : Denise Darcel
  • Popularity : 3.886
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1924-09-08
  • Place of Birth : Paris, France
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  • Also Known As : Denise Billecard
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Denise Darcel Movies

  • 1949
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    Battleground

    Battleground

    6.6 1949 HD

    Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944....

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  • 1953
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    Flame of Calcutta

    Flame of Calcutta

    1 1953 HD

    A British captain and a French official's daughter save the East India Company.

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  • 1954
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    Vera Cruz

    Vera Cruz

    6.603 1954 HD

    After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane...

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  • 1961
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    Seven Women from Hell

    Seven Women from Hell

    3.7 1961 HD

    Seven women from different backgrounds, nationality, age, class, and marital status find themselves in New Guinea, February 1942 - when the Japanese...

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  • 1951
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    Westward the Women

    Westward the Women

    7 1951 HD

    There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order...

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  • 1952
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    Young Man with Ideas

    Young Man with Ideas

    4.688 1952 HD

    A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

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  • 1950
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    Tarzan and the Slave Girl

    Tarzan and the Slave Girl

    5.2 1950 HD

    The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysterious disease plaguing their village. Their Chief...

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  • 1953
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    Dangerous When Wet

    Dangerous When Wet

    6 1953 HD

    The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe,...

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  • 1948
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    To the Victor

    To the Victor

    1 1948 HD

    An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.

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  • 1948
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    Thunder in the Pines

    Thunder in the Pines

    5 1948 HD

    Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting contest.

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  • 1958
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    Naked City

    Naked City

    5.3 1958 HD

    Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the...

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  • 1962
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    Combat!

    Combat!

    7.6 1962 HD

    Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American...

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  • 1959
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    Tightrope

    Tightrope

    5.5 1959 HD

    Tightrope is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 1959 to September 1960, under the alternate sponsorship of the J.B....

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  • 1959
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    Music For A Summer Night

    Music For A Summer Night

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1957
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    Tonight Starring Jack Paar

    Tonight Starring Jack Paar

    6.5 1957 HD

    Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.632 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.7 1950 HD

    Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

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