Paris (AFP)
The actress and queen of the music hall Suzy Delair, who reigned in the 1940s and 1950s on the Paris show, died on the night of Sunday to Monday at the age of 102, we learned from his entourage, confirming information from Le Point.
Her real name Suzanne Delaire, the actress lived in a retirement home.
One of his last roles was that of the dentist Germaine Pivert, married to Louis de Funès in "Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob" (1973).
Discovered by the filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot, of whom she was the companion for ten years, Suzy Delair held her greatest role in 1947 in "Quai des orfèvres" where she camped a music hall star.
In 1942, she was part of the group of French actors and actresses invited by the Germans to visit film studios in Munich and Berlin. An episode that will earn him the Liberation to be hit with three months of suspension by the Purification Committee.
Interpreter, in 1960, of "Régates de San Francisco", by Claude Autant-Lara, she toured, two years later, in Italy, "Rocco et ses frères", by Luchino Visconti, with Alain Delon. We then see it in "Mouron pour les petits oiseaux", by Marcel Carné, then in "Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob", by Gérard Oury.
Also known for her songs, she recorded a best of in 2012, on the label Marianne Mélody.
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