
Monte Carlo, Monaco
Mireille Césarine Balin (born Blanche Mireille Césarine Balin; 20 July 1909, in Monte Carlo – 9 November 1968 in Paris) was a French-Italian actress. Balin was born near Monte Carlo. Her father, Charles Balin, was a French newspaper publisher. Her mother was Italian. Her education came at finishing schools. She was a policewoman in Paris until friends urged her to take a screen test. Balin posed for some advertisements in Paris before she began acting in films. Considered one of the finest actresses of French cinema in the 1930s, she was discredited by her fraternization with the Nazis. During Nazi occupation of France, she became romantically involved with an officer of the Wehrmacht and at the end of war she was imprisoned in Fresnes until January 1945. She retired from film in 1947. Balin arrived in Hollywood in 1937 with a staff of servants and with 28 trunks containing "most of her worldly possessions. During the final 10 years of her life she lived in a "charitable home". Balin died in 1968, aged 59.

as Claude's wife

as Gaby, the Parisian
1937

as Denise
1934

as Claude's wife
1942

as The Niece
1933

1943
as Nicole
1933

as Self (archival footage)
2011

as Carmen Herrera
1940

as Madeleine Courtois, l'aventurière
1937

as Countess Vilma Isopolska
1939

as Cora
1936

as Marcelle
1934
1943

as Self (archival footage)
2011

as Louise Valérian
1947

1943

as Gisèle Esteban
1942

as Lola Gracieuse
1942

as Bella Score
1942

as Mireille
1942

as Claude's wife
1942

as Sidonie Chèbe
1941

as Denise
1940

as Carmen Herrera
1940

1939

1939

as Countess Vilma Isopolska
1939

as Georgette
1939

as Véra Agatcheff
1938

as Judith
1938

as Assunta
1937

as Madeleine Courtois, l'aventurière
1937

as Gaby, the Parisian
1937

as Gine
1936

as Cora
1936

as Marie
1935

as Marcelle
1934