Gisèle Pascal (17 September 1921 – 2 February 2007) was a French actressBFI.org and a former lover of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.
She was born Gisèle Marie Madeleine Tallone at Cannes, France. Her first movie role was in 1942's L'Arlésienne.
For six years, she was involved in a relationship with Prince Rainier, and lived together in a villa in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, Rainier's sister, seeking to obtain the throne of Monaco for her own son, spread malicious rumors that Pascal was incapable of bearing children. A contemplated marriage was called off when a medical examination mistakenly reported that she was infertile.
Pascal subsequently married actor Raymond Pellegrin on 8 October 1955 and had a daughter, Pascale Pellegrin, on 12 September 1962.
Stage credits Amour, Délices et orgues (also known as Collège Swing) (1947) Véronique (1949) Boum sur Paris (1954)
Partial filmography
L'Arlésienne (1942) - Vivette The Beautiful Adventure (1942) - Hélène de Trévillac Two Timid Souls (1943) - Une des jeunes filles La Vie de bohème (1945) - Musette Lunegarde (1946) - Élisabeth de Lunegarde Madame et son flirt (1946) - Claudette Sauvaget Les J3 (1946) - Mademoiselle Bravard - la prof de philo Dropped from Heaven (1946) - Madeleine Loves, Delights and Organs (1947) - Micheline Last Refuge (1947) - Antoinette Baron After Love (1947) - Germaine By Mademoiselle Has Fun (1948) - Christine Gibson The Nude Woman (1949) - Loulou The Chocolate Girl (1949) - Benjamine Lapistolle Véronique (1950) - Estelle Beautiful Love (1951) - Suzanne Gérard-Moulin Endless Horizons (1953) - Hélène Boucher Boum sur Paris (1953) - Giselle Pascal Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954) - Louise de la Vallière Women Without Hope (1954) - Marie-Thérèse Langeac Fire Under Her Skin (1954) - Thérèse Rabou Madonna of the Sleeping Cars (1955) - Lady Diana Wyndham Mademoiselle from Paris (1955) - Micheline Bertier If Paris Were Told to Us (1956) - Comtesse de G... Pity for the Vamps (1956) - Jany Cristal-Davis Sylviane de mes nuits (1957) - Gaby Lemontier Ça n'arrive qu'aux vivants (1959) - Anne Brunier Le Masque de fer (1962) - Mme de Chaulmes Seul... à corps perdu (1964) - Lydia Simon Secret World (1969) - Florence Un caso di coscienza (1970) - Rosaria At the Top of the Stairs (1983) - Rose Les Compères (1983) - Louise The Public Woman (1984) - Gertrude Juillet en septembre (1988) - Madame Dewacker
References
External links Obituary in The Independent
Gisèle Pascal at Allmovie