Danièle Gaubert

Born on August 9, 1943 in Nuars, Nièvre, France, Danièle Louise Régina Gaubert had a brief career as a teen model before being discovered by director Claude Autant-Lara, who chose her for the lead in his film Les régates de San Francisco (1960). She then starred as a rebellious teenager in a French suburb in Terrain vague (1960), directed by Marcel Carné in an attempt to be part of the French New Wave. Daniele soon found that she was the darling of veteran directors working at the time and ended up playing supporting roles in a number of French, German and Italian productions. She reunited with Autant-Lara for the costume comedy Vive Henri IV... vive l'amour! (1961) in which she was the beautiful girl caught between 17th-century king Henri IV (Francis Claude) and a disinterested son (Jean Sorel). She went to Italy for Una storia milanese (1962) with Romolo Valli and to Germany for the musical Der Zigeunerbaron (1962) starring Carlos Thompson. One of her most memorable roles during this period was as the young mistress of aging industrialist Curd Jürgens in Begegnung in Salzburg (1964). She also appeared in the American-Japanese rescue drama Flight from Ashiya (1964) as the doomed girlfriend of Yul Brynner. Media reports during the film's production in October 1963 highlighted the fact that the bikini Daniele wears in the movie was made of Italian silk and weighed less than three ounces.