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A Polish-Jewish actress who survived wartime imprisonment by Vichy authorities as a teenager before reinventing herself in Hollywood, her stage name blending the first names of her patron, 20th Century Fox producer Darryl Zanuck, and his wife Virginia. She starred in The Egyptian and Hell and High Water (1954-55) but struggled to sustain a career amid a severe gambling addiction, and died in Monte Carlo in 1971.