Actress
Daughter of collaborationist press tycoon Jean Luchaire, who was condemned to death and shot by a firing squad for his involvement with the German occupying forces during the war.
She served a prison sentence in Nice prison, condemned to "National Degradation" (Deprived of her civil rights as a French citizen) for 10 years and received a ban that forbade her to work for several years for her collaboration with the Germans during the war.
Had a daughter called Brigitte from her brief marriage with a French aristocrat.
Spoke fluent English.
Died in abject poverty from the effects of tuberculosis.
The daughter of a journalist and politician, on stage from the age of 16.
