Actress. She is best remembered for her portrayal of the striking Lizette Damon in "Thunder in the East" (1951). Born Corinne Dibos, she was raised within a family of wealth and position, one of five children of a patent attorney and a chemist. After completing her formal education at the Charles Dullin Acting School, she began her career as leading lady on the stage. Upon being introduced to director Marc Allegret while attending a social function at the Deux Margots Cafe, he was so impressed by her dark good looks, hourglass figure, and soft-spoken voice, that upon taking notice of her potential he arranged for her to begin a career in the film industry beginning with her appearing under his supervision per a major role in "Petrus" (1946). From there, she would go on to flourish as a familiar character actress between two continents appearing in over 45 features; often typecast as wives, mothers, relatives, grandmothers, old maids, busybodies, snobs, dowagers, aristocrats, glamour dolls, chorines, exotics, femme fatales, women with a past, secretaries, nurses, receptionists, waitresses, retail clerks, landladies, neighbors, eccentrics, curmudgeons, housekeepers, white-collared workers, historical or literary figures, managers, madams, educators, torch singers, clergywomen, con-artists, gangster molls, reporters, authority figures, and matriarchs. She appeared in such feature films as "We're Not Married" (1946), "Last Chance Castle" (1947), "Rope of Sand" (1949), "When Willie Comes Marching Home" (1950), "On the Riviera" (1951), "What Price Glory" (1952), "The Far Country" (1954), "Plunderers of Painted Flats" (1959), "Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons" (1960), "Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man" (1962), "Apache Uprising" (1965), "Pound" (1970), "Too Hot to Handle" (1974), "She's Dressed to Kill" (1979), "Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype" (1980), "The Sword and the Sorcerer" (1982), and "Side Roads" (1988). On television, she appeared in numerous guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "The Ford Television Theatre," "Lux Video Theatre," "Climax!," "Studio One," "The Red Skelton Hour," "Richard Diamond, Private Detective," "Burke's Law," "The DuPont Show of the Week," "Batman," "The Colgate Comedy Hour," "Police Story," "Starsky and Hutch," "Hart to Hart," and "General Hospital". During her career, she was a naturalized United States citizen, had been a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, had been a member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, was a regular parishioner of the Catholic church, presided on her local charters of the American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity, had been a licensed lawyer, was considered a rival of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, had been romantically linked to such actors as Tony Curtis and Rory Calhoun, was the author of the book "Has Corinne Been a Good Girl?", had been a commercial model for the Forbes Agency, sat on the California board of directors for the women's fashion department of the retailer Macy's, had been cited by gossip columnist Hedda Hopper as being "Hollywood's Most Promiscuous Playgirl", had been the celebrity spokeswoman for Pyrex and Paper Mate Ballpoint Pens, was a high-demand cheesecake model, had been a certified therapist, and she was married to actor John Bromfield from 1948 to 1954, actor Jeffrey Stone from 1955 to 1960, producer Al Gannaway from 1966 to 1968), and technical director Robert Writ from 1968 to 1971 (all unions ended in divorce and she had one adopted son from Jeffrey Stone). Following her 1988 retirement, she spent the remainder of her life being a regular attendee at autograph conventions, and was involved in charitable and religious causes, until her death from the complications of a cerebral hemorrhage.