Gigi Perreau
| Gigi Perreau | |
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 with Sal Mineo signing autographs at the 1956 premiere of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit |
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| Born | Ghislaine Elizabeth Marie Thérèse Perreau-Saussine February 6, 1941 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1943–present |
Gigi Perreau (born February 6, 1941 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress.
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[edit] Biography
She achieved success as a child actress in a number of films, including Green Dolphin Street (1947). She played the daughter of Claude Rains and Bette Davis's characters in the 1944 film Mr. Skeffington (1944). In Shadow on the Wall (1950), she starred as the sole witness to a murder. As the "top child movie actress for 1951", the then ten-year-old was given the keys to the city of Pittsburgh by its mayor, David L. Lawrence, the youngest to be so honored.[1]
However, her career lost momentum as she grew up. She played supporting roles in the 1959 sitcom The Betty Hutton Show on CBS, (with her older brother Gerald), and in the Follow the Sun television series on ABC from 1961–1962, in which she played secretary Katherine Ann "Kathy" Richards. She guest starred on The Rifleman in 1960 and 1961. Gigi also appeared in a 1970 episode of The Brady Bunch, in which she played a teacher Greg Brady had a crush on. In the new millennium, she provided a voice in the animated film Fly Me to the Moon, and is credited by the Internet Movie Database with two other movies in post-production.
Perreau is an alumna of Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles and has taught drama classes there. As of 2010, she is a member of the Board of Directors of both the Donna Reed Foundation for the Performing Arts and the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, and the Vice-President of the Drama Teachers Association of Southern California.[2]
Gerald (stage names Peter Miles and Richard Miles) and, to a lesser extent, her younger sisters Janine and Lauren, also had a measure of success in film and on television.
Perreau was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8, 1960, for her work in television.[3] In 1998, she was honored with the Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award.[4]
Perreau has four chidren: Gina Maria Gallo Paris, Robert Anthony Gallo, Danielle deRuelle and Keith deRuelle.
[edit] Selected filmography
- Mr. Skeffington (1944), as Ghislaine Perreau
- Yolanda and the Thief (1945), as Ghislaine Perreau
- Enchantment (1948)
- Family Honeymoon (1949)
- Roseanna McCoy (1949)
- My Foolish Heart (1949)
- Shadow on the Wall (1950)
- For Heaven's Sake (1950)
- Bonzo Goes to College (1952)
- Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
- Dance with Me Henry (1956)
- The Cool and the Crazy (1958)
- Girls Town (1959)
- Journey to the Center of Time (1967)
- Fly Me to the Moon (2008) (voice)
[edit] References
- ^ Edith Rosenblatt (December 1, 1951). "Top Child Movie Actress Honored at Luncheon". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19511201&id=FRcNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nmoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4056,6309032.
- ^ "Gigi Perreau". Donna Reed Foundation for the Performing Arts (donnareed.org). http://www.donnareed.org/html/templates/dr_profile.php?drf_person=perreau. Retrieved January 3, 2010.
- ^ "Gigi Perreau". Hollywood Walk of Fame. http://www.walkoffame.com/gigi-perreau. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
- ^ "Youth in Film Special Awards". Young Artist Awards. http://www.youngartistawards.org/pastnoms19.htm. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
