Christine Gouze-Rénal

Christine Gouze-Rénal (30 December 1914 − 25 October 2002) was a French film and television producer.

A graduate in literature and art history and former Résistance member, she became in 1956 France's first female film producer with The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful, starring Brigitte Bardot.

[1] She produced a total of about 15 movies, the most celebrated being probably Jacques Demy's Une chambre en ville (1983).

[1] From the 1970s onwards, she was also active as a television producer, with adaptations of works by Colette, Maupassant, Balzac and Buzzati.

[2] Gouze-Rénal was the wife of actor Roger Hanin and the elder sister of Danielle Mitterrand, wife of President François Mitterrand.