Denise Darcel

 This one has to be heard to be believed !!...After a few listening it hits the spot !!

Denise Darcel (8 September 1924 – 23 December 2011) was a French actress who also made films in Hollywood.

A winner of the title "The Most Beautiful Girl in France," Darcel was a cabaret singer in Paris after World War II before being spotted by Hollywood. Denise came to the United States in 1947 and became an American citizen in 1952.

In 1950, Darcel had a Vaudeville act, which was panned by at least one reviewer. About Darcel's performance 5 May 1950, at the Strand in New York, the Billboard review said: "Denise Darcel showed her well-stacked chassis ... but her heavily accented English sounded like so much gibberish; it got laughs instead of attention. her singing is inadequate, her over-use of hands and arms is clumsy and she shows herself completely at a loss in handling hecklers."

After her film and television career began to wane, Darcel, aged 41, became an ecdysiast (stripper), appearing in West Coast theatres in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Oakland, and Los Angeles. She retired from stripping after a few years and returned to the cabaret circuit, In the early 1950s, Darcel was linked romantically with singer Billy Eckstine. In 1993, Jet magazine reported, "Eckstine's hot romance with actress Denise Darcel cooled off after their photo appeared on cover of Life Magazine, causing a White backlash.

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1 comment:

Vince Mallardi, C.M.C.24 June 2020 at 14:39

I just came across this album sixty years after I recorded Denise for the NBC show, Abbondanza. Cosmo Mallardi, a cousin, did the filming; I did the sound. I also knew Bernie Lowe who produced this record near where our offices are today, on Locust Street in Philadelphia. This was her only album to my knowledge.