More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones, Saint Teresa of Avila reputedly opined, but she never met Louise, Madame de… (Danielle Darrieux). For the vain, tragic heroine of Max ...

Danielle Darrieux, one of the great French movie stars, died Wednesday in Bois-le-Roi, France. She was 100. The star of director Max Ophuls’ classic early ’50s films “La Ronde” and “The Earrings of ...

Danielle Darrieux, one of the great French movie stars, died Wednesday in Bois-le-Roi, France. She was 100. The star of director Max Ophuls’ classic early ’50s films “La Ronde” and “The Earrings of ...

Dir. Max Ophuls (1953) The ultimate coquette, Danielle Darrieux, playing the surname-less comtesse of the title, sets the plot of Max Ophuls’s supreme 1953 tragedy in motion by selling jewels given to ...

Ophüls spent a few frustrating years in Hollywood while the Nazis were in power in his native Germany, then moved to France after World War II and made four films noteworthy for their clever narrative ...

Danielle Darrieux, the French actress whose career on screen and stage spanned eight decades, has died at the age of 100, the Associated Press reported. A favorite of French directors such as Claude ...

Queen of frou-frou: Danielle Darrieux as the flighty Louise in 'Madame de...' The earrings have assumed the power of her briefly requited love The movie was expanded by Ophüls and his co-writers from ...

“Coincidence is only extraordinary because it’s so natural,” a character says near the end of director Max Ophüls’ graceful, deceptively tragic late-career masterpiece. It’s a line that could ...