Monday, July 20, 2015

Gi Gi Perreau "Perea"

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Born Ghislaine Elizabeth Marie Thérèse Perreau-Saussine
February 6, 1941 (age 74)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress, stage director, drama teacher
Years active 1943–present
Spouse(s) Emil Frank Gallo 1960-1967 (divorced)
Gene Harve deRuelle 1970-2000 (divorced)
Children Gina Gallo Paris, Robert Anthony Gallo, Danielle Elena Bianco and Keith H. deRuelle
Gigi Perreau (born February 6, 1941 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress.

Career Edit

Perreau achieved success as a child actress in a number of films. She got into the business quite by accident. Her older brother Gerald was trying out for the part of the title character's son in Madame Curie (1943). Because their mother could not find a babysitter, she took Gigi along. The two-year-old, who could speak French, got the (uncredited) part of Madame Curie's daughter Ève (while Gerald would have to wait a year to make his film debut, in Passage to Marseille). She also 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.

However, her career lost momentum as she grew up. In 1959, she played a friend of character Mary Stone (Shelley Fabares) on ABC's The Donna Reed Show. That same year, she had a supporting role in the sitcom The Betty Hutton Show on CBS, with her brother Gerald. In 1960, Perreau was cast as Julie Staunton in the episode "Flight from Terror" of the ABC adventure series, The Islanders, set in the South Pacific. She was cast in two episodes, "Don Gringo" (1960) and "The Promise" (1961) of the Nick Adams' ABC western series, The Rebel.

In 1961, she played Mary Bettelheim in the episode "The Twelfth Hour" of the ABC/Warner Brothers television crime drama, The Roaring 20s. She was cast in a recurring role on ABC's Follow the Sun series from 1961–1962 as a secretary, Katherine Ann "Kathy" Richards. She guest starred on The Rifleman in 1960 and 1961. She made two guest appearances on Perry Mason: in 1958 as title character and defendant Doris Bannister in "The Case of the Desperate Daughter" and in 1964 as nurse Phyllis Clover in "The Case of the Sleepy Slayer." On October 11, 1960, Perreau and Robert Harland were cast as Sara Lou and Lin Proctor, a young couple from the east who have eloped and are heading west in the second episode, "The Land Beyond", of ABC's Stagecoach West, with Wayne Rogers and Robert Bray. In 1970, Perreau appeared on The Brady Bunch as a teacher Greg Brady has 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.

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