According to one obituary, she was promoted "as a combination of Dietrich and Rita Hayworth", but her persona failed to live up to this description, though the fault lay as much with a string of mediocre films as with a lack of a compelling talent, for Calvet's sultry looks and flashing eyes were allied with an impish sense of humor.

Marais advised her to join Charles Dullin's acting school, where he had trained alongside Simone Signoret and Gérard Philipe.

She appeared uncredited in the film Blind Desire (1945) and was the French voice of Rita Hayworth in dubbed versions of American movies.

[5] Her father did not want her to use the family name, so she chose "Calvet" from a name on a bottle of wine (she felt that alliteration had been lucky for Michèle Morgan, Dannielle Darrieux, and Simone Signoret).

According to one obituary, "Just after the Second World War, most of the major Hollywood studios were importing female talent from Europe in the hopes of finding another Garbo, Dietrich or Bergman to lend exoticism to their product.

Alida Valli, Hildegard Knef and Denise Darcel were among those who had varying success during the period, and Corinne Calvet was the choice of Paramount.

Wallis saw a test of Calvet, and in August 1948, took her back to Paramount for a role in Rope of Sand (1949) opposite Burt Lancaster and Paul Henreid, directed by William Dieterle.

[3] Wallis put her in My Friend Irma Goes West (1950) a film best remembered for being the second movie released starring Martin and Lewis.

"[2] In January 1950, Hedda Hopper claimed that Calvert's "ego is [now] so inflated I doubt if she could get inside a jumping rope...Corinne thinks she's god's gift to America instead of being grateful for the opportunity after flopping at two studios.

20th Century Fox borrowed her to play Danny Kaye's leading lady in On the Riviera (1951), which earned her a Roscoe by the Harvard Lampoon for giving one of the worst film performances of 1951.

At Paramount, she did Thunder in the East (1953) with Alan Ladd, then at Fox was Rory Calhoun's leading lady in Powder River (1953).

[15] Calvet returned to France to star in One Step to Eternity (1955), then went to Italy to appear in Le ragazze di San Frediano (1955) and Sins of Casanova (1955).

In February 1955, it was announced she would star in a TV series based on the radio show Cafe Istanbul but it appears to not have been made.

appearing in Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) and Apache Uprising (1965) (with Calhoun) as well as episodes of The DuPont Show of the Week, Burke's Law, and Batman.

She studied at the Arica Institute, a Human Potential Movement group, and made a new career as a hypnotherapist, specializing in regressing people to their past lives.

In 1958, referring to being cast as a French temptress, she told an interviewer "If I had come to Hollywood as a dramatic actress, I never would have been Corinne Calvet, and you never would have been sitting here talking to me.

[4] In 1967 her boyfriend of six years, Donald Scott, sued Calvet to recover $878,000 in assets that he had put under her name in an effort to hide them from his wife in a divorce battle.