Danielle Darrieux, who charmed world as `Madame d`, dies at 100
(Artdaily.org)

Danielle Darrieux, one of France`s greatest and most enduring stars despite her wartime collaboration with the Germans, has died aged 100 at her home near Paris, her partner said Thursday. The actress who charmed the world in Max Ophuls` romantic 1953 masterpiece `The Earrings of Madame de` became unwell `recently after a little fall`, Jacques Jenvrin told AFP. With her smouldering good looks and sulky pout, Darrieux became a huge international star in the 1930s, playing opposite Douglas Fairbanks Jr in the Hollywood romance `The Rage of Paris` in 1938. But her decision to keep working after the Nazis occupied France, and to act in movies made by the studio set up by their propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, saw her branded as a collaborationist. However, Darrieux later said that she was forced to take part in a notorious publicity