Born in Saint-Leu La-Forêt, Marcelle Derrien studied drama at the
Conservatoire and with René Simon. After
appearing on the stage, she illuminated seven films with her fresh
presence, only two being of some consequence,
René Clair's
Schweigen ist Gold (1947),
where she plays a country girl who unwillingly goes to the head of both
a filmmaker
(Maurice Chevalier) and his
adopted son (François Périer) and
Pierre Billon's version of
Colette's
Chéri (1950) in which she is Edmée, Chéri's
more or less imposed fiancée. Seven movies in five years and that was
all. Marcelle Derrien had only been a shooting star.
