Danielle Darrieux in ‘La Ronde.’ Film icon Danielle Darrieux turns 100: Longest ‘star career’ in movie history? Screen legend Danielle Darrieux is turning 100 today, May 1. In all likelihood,…
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Danièle Delorme: Rare woman director muse and pioneering female movie producer also featured in blockbuster bigger than Star Wars.
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Glenda Jackson: Labour MP and 2-Time Best Actress Oscar Winner will return to acting after two decades in British politics.
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Marc Allégret: From André Gide Protégé (and lover) to Simone Simon Mentor. Allégret was one of French cinema’s greatest starmakers.
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Simone Simon: La Bête Humaine (1938) Deadly Sex Kitten in 1 of Jean Renoir’s most known films. Off screen, she romanced real-life James Bond.
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Marie Dubois, Actress in New Wave Films and the record-breaking blockbuster La Grande Vadrouille, has died.
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Les Misérables Reviews: Mixed views on maximalist Approach to Killer Pipes but Anne Hathaway singing sobbing Fantine total shoo-in Oscar contender.
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Jean Gabin was France’s answer to Humphrey Bogart, many (English-language) historians have claimed. Either that, or Gabin was France’s answer to Spencer Tracy. Never mind the fact that Gabin was…
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“I’m the last survivor of one section of the history of French cinema,” director-screenwriter Jean Delannoy declared in 2004. The “last survivor” died yesterday, June 18, at his home in…
Simone Simon: Sex Kitten and Femme Fatale was seen in nearly 40 films, seducing men old and young sometimes with deadly results.
Anna Magnani in Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima (1951). At the end of Giuseppe Tornatore’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner Cinema Paradiso, small-town projectionist Philippe Noiret has died and the Nuovo…