Discovered by Paramount mogul Hal B. Wallis, her Hollywood career provided brief foreign allure but failed to catch on and she returned to France, eventually taking a fatal dose of sleeping pills in 1971.
Fluent in English, German, Russian, French and Spanish.
This dark-haired and leggy Parisian "sex kitten" of the post-war Hollywood period played a provocative student in The Accused (1949) and was the only female in the cast of the war picture Breakthrough (1950) playing saucy villager Colette.
Before she came to the US she was a writer for the "Voice of America" radio network in France.