CORINNE CALVET Original Vintage HOLLYWOOD Publicity Photo FAN CLUB SOUVENIR

Description: Corinne Calvet (April 30, 1925 – June 23, 2001), born Corinne Dibos, was a French actress who appeared mostly in American films. According to one obituary, she was promoted "as a combination of Dietrich and Rita Hayworth", but her persona failed to live up to this description, though the fault lay as much with a string of mediocre films as with a lack of a compelling talent, for Calvet's sultry looks and flashing eyes were allied with an impish sense of humour. She eventually became better known for her fiery private life and some well-publicised legal battles." Calvet was born in Paris. Her mother was a scientist who played a part in the development of Pyrex glass. One of her sisters, a doctor, died when taken hostage by the Germans during the war. She and her father had to flee Paris when the Germans came. Calvet studied criminal law at the Sorbonne. "A lawyer needs exactly what an actor needs, strong personality, persuasive powers and a good voice", she said later. While studying law, she often went to the Deux Magots café where her group of friends included Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais, which prompted her to try acting. Marais advised her to join Charles Dullin's acting school, where he had trained alongside Simone Signoret and Gérard Philipe. She then studied at L'Ecole du Cinema. Calvet was married three times. Her first marriage was to actor John Bromfield (1948 – 17 March 1954), who co-starred with her in Rope of Sand and who she claimed had been ordered to marry her by his studio. She then married actor Jeffrey Stone (1955–1960)[19] and producer Robert J. Wirt (1968 – October 1971). All three marriages ended in divorce. She had a son with Jeffrey Stone, John, born in 1956.[20] Between her last two marriages, she had a six-year, de facto relationship with millionaire Donald Scott, and they adopted a boy together. She later admitted she never earned more than $10,000 a year during this period. Calvet once said "American men make wonderful husbands if you don't love them. But if you love them, don't marry them. I don't mean they are lousy lovers", Calvet said. "I just think they are little boys who don't know what they want. In America, you don't have romances, you have affairs. And these affairs really lack class." In 1952, Calvet sued actress Zsa Zsa Gabor for $1 million, accusing her of slander after Gabor was quoted as saying that Calvet was not really French, but was "a cockney English girl who couldn't even speak French a few years ago". An obituary noted: "Gabor countered that Calvet's suit was without merit. The court apparently agreed because the legal wrangle quickly disappeared from the media." In 1967 her boyfriend of six years, Donald Scott, sued Calvet to recover $878,000 in assets that he had put under her name in an effort to hide them from his wife in a divorce battle. A two-week trial resulted in which Scott claimed Calvet had used voodoo to control him. The suit was settled with an award to Calvet of $200,000. Calvet died June 23, 2001, in Los Angeles of a cerebral haemorrhage. ORIGINAL VINTAGE PHOTO is about 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 and on PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER ORIGINAL VINTAGE PHOTO is in GOOD CONDITION PLEASE SEE PICS TO DETERMINE CONDITION COMBINED SHIPPING Pays one mailing fee

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