Star who dubbed French versions of talkies starring Olivia de Havilland and Judy Garland quit acting during second world war
Renée Dorléac, the French film star and mother of actors including Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac and Sylvie Dorléac, has died aged 109 in
Paris, her family confirmed to Le Figaro.
Born in the port town of Le Havre on 10 September 1911, the
Actor – known professionally as Renée-Jeanne Simonot – began her career aged seven in Paris’s Odéon theatre, where she worked for three decades.