Simone Roussel, known as Michèle Morgan, was a French actress born on February 29, 1920, in Neuilly-sur-Seine and died on December 20, 2016, in the same city.
Her filmography, which includes more than seventy films from the 1930s to the 1980s, features major French and American directors from the... More
Simone Roussel, known as Michèle Morgan, was a French actress born on February 29, 1920, in Neuilly-sur-Seine and died on December 20, 2016, in the same city.
Her filmography, which includes more than seventy films from the 1930s to the 1980s, features major French and American directors from these five decades, including Marcel Carné, Marc Allégret, Jean Grémillon, Julien Duvivier, Michael Curtiz, Carol Reed, René Clément, Claude Autant-Lara, René Clair, André Cayatte, Jean Delannoy, Henri Decoin, Henri Verneuil, Michel Deville, Claude Chabrol, and Claude Lelouch, and partners such as Michel Simon, Raimu, Jean Gabin, Charles Boyer, Humphrey Bogart, Jean Marais, Gérard Philipe, Henri Vidal, Bourvil, Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, and Alain Delon.
In Marcel Carné's Le Quai des brumes (The Quay of Mists), her partner Jean Gabin delivers one of the most famous lines in French cinema: "You have beautiful eyes, you know."
Voted "most popular French actress" ten times by the public, she was also the first actress to receive the Best Actress Award at the first Cannes Film Festival in 1946 for her role as Gertrude in the film La Symphonie Pastorale (1945). Having garnered numerous awards at the height of her career in the 1950s, she received an honorary César Award in 1992, as well as a Golden Lion in 1996, in recognition of her contribution to cinema.
From the 1970s onward, she became less visible on screen and devoted her time to painting, a passion that dates back to her encounter with the French-Polish painter Moïse Kisling in the United States in 1943, who painted her portrait. She is credited with producing some 700 drawings and paintings.
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