 She began to appear in films.Her first film role was in Marcel Carné's "Les Enfants du paradis" (1945), one of the great classics of French cinema.She also made "Les dames du Bois de Boulogne" (1945) for Robert Bresson, "La Chartreuse de Parme" ("The Charterhouse of Parma") (1948) for Christian-Jaque, co-starring Gérard Philipe.