Introduction
Gisèle Pascal (17 September 1921 – 2 February 2007) was a French actress and a former lover of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.
She was born Gisèle Marie Madeleine Tallone at Cannes in France. Her first movie role was in 1942's L'Arlésienne.
For six years, she was involved in a relationship with Prince Rainier, and lived together in a villa in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, Rainier's sister, seeking to obtain the throne of Monaco for her own son, spread malicious rumors that Pascal was incapable of bearing children. A contemplated marriage was called off when a medical examination reported that she was infertile.
Pascal subsequently married actor Raymond Pellegrin on 8 October 1955 and had a daughter, Pascale Pellegrin, on 12 September 1962.
Stage credits
- Amour, Délices et orgues (also known as Collège Swing) (1947)
- Véronique (1949)
- Boum sur Paris (1954)
Selected filmography
- The Beautiful Adventure (1942)
- L'Arlésienne (1942)
- Madame et son flirt (1946)
- Last Refuge (1946)
- Dropped from Heaven (1946)
- Mademoiselle Has Fun (1948)
- After Love (1948)
- The Chocolate Girl (1950)
- Endless Horizons (1953)
- Boum sur Paris (1953)
- Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
- Madonna of the Sleeping Cars (1955)
- If Paris Were Told to Us (1956)
- Le Masque de fer (1962)
- Un caso di coscienza (1970)