(Dorothee Hermina Feinberg was born in Berlin, Germany on May 19, 1922. She was the daughter of a Russian-Jewish banker who was expelled by the 1917 revolution. She came to France at the end of the 1930s and aspired to become an actress. She already spoke Russian and German and soon learned French, then Italian and English.
Under the stage name Dora Doll, one of her first screen appearances was as Juliette in Henri-Georges Clouzot's “Manon” (1949). She appeared as Lola in Jacques Becker's “Touchez pas au grisbi” (1954) and as Genisse in Jean Renoir's “French Cancan” (1955).
In 1976, she appeared on television in the French series ‘Hôtel Baltimore’ in the role of Suzy. In 1977, she appeared in Fred Zinnemann's “Julia” as the woman passenger accompanying Lillian Hellman. In 1982, she played in Ettore Scola's “That Night in Varennes”. In the late 1990s, she played the grandmother Louise Chantreuil in the TV series ‘Tide of Life’. In all she appeared in over 230 films and television roles from 1938 to 2010
Dora was married twice. Her first husband was the actor Raymond Pellegrin from 1949-1955, and they had a daughter, Danielle. She was later married to François Deguelt from 1965-1971.
In 1993, Dora Doll was awarded the Prix
"Reconnaissance des cinéphiles" from Puget-Théniers in honour of her
life's work. She was made Knight of France's National Order of Merit in 2000.
Doll’s only Euro-western was as Mae Marlane in 1956 “Fernand Cowboy” starring Fernand Raynaud.
DOLL, Dora (Dorothee Hermina
Feinberg) [5/19/1922, Berlin, Berlin, Germany - 11/15/2015,
Saint-Gilles, Gard, France] – film actress, married to actor Raymond Pellegrin
(Raymond Louis Pilade Pellegrini.) [1925-2007] (1949-1955) mother of Danielle
Pellegrin, married to singer François Deguelt (Louis Deghelt) [1932-2014]
(1965–1971).
Fernand Cowboy - 1956 (Mae Marlane)
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