Ginette Pigeon

Blond-haired, slender, vivacious, with a funny turned-up nose and laughing eyes, Ginette Pigeon was one of those exuberant (and nonetheless charming) petites both the cinema and the theater were once mad about. And with Miss Pigeon, the spectator was invariably treated to a cocktail of unbridled gaiety and dizzying pace. Dreaming from an early age of becoming an actress, she took acting lessons immediately after graduating from high school, her drama teachers being first Béatrix Dussane and then Maurice Escande. Her stage debut gave her the opportunity to rub elbows with the great Madeleine Robinson. She indeed played her daughter in W. Somerset Maugham's "Adorable Julia". Her career in film was brief (mainly from 1954 to 1960) but she had time to play in no fewer than sixteen movies, unfortunately of average quality, which explains why her name is forgotten today. Too bad, because her appearance on a screen rarely leaves one indifferent. Show less «