Discovered by Paramount mogul Hal B. Wallis, her Hollywood career provided brief foreign allure but failed to catch on and she returned to France, eventually taking a fatal dose of sleeping pills in 1971.
This dark-haired and leggy Parisian "sex kitten" of the post-war Hollywood period played a provocative student in The Accused (1949) and was the only female in the cast of the war picture Breakthrough (1950) playing saucy villager Colette.