Corinne Calvet
Calvet on the August 1953 cover of Epoca
Born	Corinne Dibos (1925-04-30)April 30, 1925 Paris, France
Died	June 23, 2001(2001-06-23) (aged 76) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1945-1982
Spouse(s)	John Bromfield ​ (m. 1948⁠–⁠1954)​ (divorced) Jeffrey Stone ​ (m. 1955⁠–⁠1960)​ (divorced) 1 child Robert J. Wirt ​ (m. 1968⁠–⁠1971)​ (filed for divorce)
Children	Robin Stone (b. 1956)[1]

Corinne Calvet (April 30, 1925 – June 23, 2001), born Corinne Dibos, was a French actress who appeared mostly in American films.

Calvet was born in Paris. Her mother was a scientist who played a part in the development of Pyrex glass.^[2] Calvet studied criminal law at the Sorbonne.^[3]

Calvet made her debut in French radio, stage plays, and cinema in the 1940s. She appeared uncredited in the film La part de l'ombre (1945) and had a speaking part in Petrus (1946) starring Fernandel.

Calvet played a model in We Are Not Married (1946) and had a support role in Last Chance Castle (1947).

Calvet was brought to Hollywood in the 1940s by producer Hal B. Wallis. He cast her in Rope of Sand (1949) opposite Burt Lancaster and Paul Henreid.

She was given star billing in her second Hollywood film, When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950), starring Dan Dailey and directed by John Ford for 20th Century Fox.

Wallis put her in My Friend Irma Goes West (1950) a film best remembered for being the second movie released starring Martin and Lewis. At Paramount she did a film about the Lower Canada Rebellion, Quebec (1951) with John Drew Barrymore.

20th Century Fox borrowed her to play Danny Kaye's leading lady in On the Riviera (1951). Wallis co starred her with Joseph Cotten in Peking Express (1951) and Martin and Lewis in Sailor Beware (1952).

John Ford reteamed her with Dailey in What Price Glory (1952). Calvet began appearing on television shows like Lux Video Theatre.

She made a rare television appearance on the Colgate Comedy Hour with Donald O'Connor on February 3, 1952, televised nationwide by NBC. She also appeared on the game show The Name's the Same, in the "I'd Like to Be" segment, where she stumped the panel with her choice of Rocky Marciano.

At Paramount she did Thunder in the East (1953) with Alan Ladd, then at Fox was Rory Calhoun's leading lady in a Western, Powder River (1953).

Paramount put her in a low budget thriller, Flight to Tangier (1953), and she appeared on The Ford Television Theatre.

Calvert made two films at Universal: The Far Country (1954) with James Stewart, and So This Is Paris (1954) with Tony Curtis.

Calvet returned to France to star in One Step to Eternity (1955) then went to Italy to appear in Le ragazze di San Frediano (1955) and Sins of Casanova (1955). She stayed in that country to make Operazione notte (1957).

Calvet went back to Hollywood to appear in episodes of Climax!, Studio One in Hollywood, and Richard Diamond, Private Detective. She had the lead in a low budge Western, Plunderers of Painted Flats (1959) and supported George Sanders in Bluebeards Ten Honeymoons (1960).

Upset with her treatment in Hollywood, in 1960, Calvet "decided to return to France to make her headquarters".^[4]

She did continue to work in the US, appearing in Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) and Apache Uprising (1965) (with Calhoun), as well as episodes of The DuPont Show of the Week, Burke's Law, and Batman.

Calvet's later appearances include Pound (1970) by Robert Downey Sr, The Phantom of Hollywood (1974), an episode of Police Story, She's Too Hot to Handle (1977), The French Atlantic Affair, an episode of Starsky and Hutch, and She's Dressed to Kill (1979).

Her last appearances were in Hart to Hart, Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype (1980), The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982), and Side Roads (1988).

In her memoir, entitled Has Corinne Been a Good Girl? (1983), she stated that the roles she played for Hollywood studios never challenged her acting ability. In 1958, referring to being cast as a French temptress, she told an interviewer, "If I had come to Hollywood as a dramatic actress, I never would have been Corinne Calvet, and you never would have been sitting here talking to me."^[5]

Calvet was married three times. Her first marriage was to actor John Bromfield (1948 – 17 March 1954), who had co-starred with her in Rope of Sand and whom she claimed had been ordered to marry her by his studio. She then married Jeffrey Stone (1955–1960)^[1] and Robert J. Wirt (1968 – October 1971). All three marriages ended in divorce. She had a son with Jeffrey Stone.

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 coldn't even speak French a few years ago".^[6] 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."^[3]

Calvet died June 23, 2001, in Los Angeles of a cerebral hemorrhage. She was survived by a son, Michael.^[3]

• Calvet, Corinne (1983). Has Corinne Been A Good Girl? : The Intimate Memoirs of a French Actress in Hollywood. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-36405-9.

In her collection "Ariege", fashion designer Marcela Calvet named one of her most sought-after handbags "Corinne", in her honor.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Corinne Calvet.

• Corinne Calvet at IMDb
• Corinne Calvet at AllMovie
• Corinne Calvet at the TCM Movie Database
• Publicity still, Le Petit Journal (Montreal), Sept., 1949.
• The Private Life and Times of Corinne Calvet
• Corinne Calvet Tribute Slide Show

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