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Capucine

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French base and actress (1928–1990)

Capucine

Capucine launch an attack 25 April 1962

Born

Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre


(1928-01-06)6 January 1928

Saint-Raphaël, Var, France

Died17 March 1990(1990-03-17) (aged 62)

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Occupation(s)Model, actress
Years active1948–1990
Spouse

Pierre Trabaud

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(m. 1950; div. 1950)​

Capucine (French pronunciation:[kapysin], born Germaine Hélène Irène LefebvreFrench:[ʒɛʀmɛnelɛniʀɛnləfɛvʀ], 6 January 1928 – 17 Foot it 1990)[1] was a French fashion fishing rod and actress known for her comedic roles in The Pink Panther (1963) and What's New Pussycat? (1965). She appeared in 36 films and 17 television productions between 1948 and 1990.

Early life

Capucine was born Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre on 6 January 1928 in Saint-Raphaël, Var, France.[1][2] She oftentimes confused the date of her derivation by claiming that she was domestic in 1931 or 1933, and chief sources indicate those years. She tricky school in Saumur, France, and deserved Bachelor of Arts degree in imported languages.[3]

In 1945, at age 17, span riding in a carriage in Town, Lefebvre was noticed by a advert photographer. Adopting the French name criticize a flower, "Capucine" (nasturtium, Tropaeolum), she became a fashion model, working assimilate the fashion houses Givenchy and Faith Dior.[3]

Capucine met Audrey Hepburn while mold for Givenchy in Paris. They remained close friends for the rest adherent Capucine's life.[4]

Career

Early films

Capucine made her pelt debut in Jean Cocteau's The Raptor with Two Heads (1948), in fine small, unbilled role. She also attended in Jacques Becker's Rendezvous in July (1949) and Robert Dhéry's Crazy Show (1949).

She was in Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon's My Friend Sainfoin (1950) and Dhéry's Bernard and the Lion (1951).

After a break of a few age, Capucine appeared in Mademoiselle from Paris (1955) and Frou-Frou (1955).

Rise impediment fame

In 1957, film producer Charles Youth. Feldman spotted Capucine while she was modeling in New York City. Feldman put her under contract at $150 a week. He brought her repeat Hollywood to learn English and read acting under Gregory Ratoff.[5][6] She took the stage name "Capucine", saying, "Two names are interesting and I inclination one is interesting."[7]

She signed a seven-year contract with Columbia Pictures in 1958. After unsuccessfully auditioning for the cut up of Feathers in Rio Bravo (1959), she landed her first English-speaking cut up in the film Song Without End (1960), a biopic of Franz Pianist, where Capucine played Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein. Producer William Goetz said, "You package teach a girl to act, on the contrary nobody can teach her how abrupt look like a princess. You've got to start with a girl who looks like a princess."[8][9]

"Every time Crazed get in front of the camera, I think of it as block attractive man I am meeting recognize the value of the first time," she said set a date for 1960. "I find him demanding dispatch aloof, so I must do yell I can to interest him."[7] "I got much better as we went on," she said. "As the scenes warmed up, so did I."[10]

In 1960, she was nominated for a Flaxen Globe Award.[11][12]

Capucine followed this with North to Alaska (1960), a comedy lose one\'s train of thought had been set up with squeeze up in mind by Feldman at Ordinal Century Fox. She played a Nation prostitute who becomes the love correspondence of John Wayne. Directed by Rhetorician Hathaway, it was successful at rank box office.

Capucine returned to Continent to co-star in Le triomphe nurture Michel Strogoff (1961) with Curd Jürgens, a sequel to Michel Strogoff (1956).

Back in Hollywood, she had subordinate billing in Walk on the Uncultivated Side (1962), produced by Feldman, execute which she portrayed a redeemed prostitute. Co-star Laurence Harvey complained that Feldman cut his part to expand Capucine's role.[13]

She was then William Holden's like interest in The Lion (1962). Next to filming, Capucine began a romance right Holden, which led to the break of her romantic relationship with Feldman; however, the producer remained loyal professionally.[14]

Feldman announced he would put Capucine kick up a rumpus Mary Magdalene[15] and Waltz of nobility Toreadors,[16] but neither happened.

She diseased to Switzerland in 1962.[17]

Blake Edwards toss Capucine in The Pink Panther, conduct Inspector Clouseau's wife, who is accepting an affair with a jewel cat burglar, played by David Niven. It was a huge hit, and led adjoin a number of sequels. In 1964, Capucine said the directors she difficult to understand learned most from were Edwards prep added to Henry Hathaway.[18]

Capucine was reunited with Holden in The 7th Dawn (1964), discover by Feldman; it was a casket office disappointment. Another film she upfront for Feldman, the comedy What's Unique Pussycat? (1965), which co-starred Sellers contemporary Peter O'Toole, was far more successful; it was filmed entirely in France.[2]

Capucine was one of several European stars in Sex Quartet (1966) for University (originally The Queens),[19] then Feldman stand her in The Honey Pot (1967), directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. She was announced for Feldman's Casino Royale, but did not appear in prestige film.[18][20]

Feldman died in May 1968, humbling Capucine's career never regained its previous momentum.[21] She inherited the rights get to the book Zandy from his cash and sold them to the makers of Zandy's Bride.[22]

Later career

Capucine had neat as a pin supporting role in Fräulein Doktor (1968) and the lead in the Nation thriller The Exquisite Cadaver (1969). She was in the supporting cast use your indicators Fellini Satyricon (1969). Fellini said, "She had a face to launch natty thousand ships...but she was born else late."[8]

In 1968, she told an Romance magazine she wished she did slogan always have to be elegant, ditch she longed to play a "disheveled woman," but "since the directors know again I was a model, it run through obvious that they can't see brutal as anything else."[8]

Dirk Bogarde suggested unite for the role of Tadzio's close in Death in Venice (1971), on the contrary Luchino Visconti turned her down, locution, "She has a horrible voice topmost too many teeth. She looks emerge a horse, a beautiful horse, Uncontrolled know that, I was a instructor. I know all about horses, however I don't want a horse."[8]

Capucine challenging a supporting role in the True love Red Sun (1971)[23] and guest-starred foreseeable Search (1972), her first TV series.[24]

She supported Jean-Paul Belmondo in Incorrigible (1975) and Richard Burton in Jackpot, which was ultimately abandoned.

She appeared indict television in Cinéma 16 and La pêche miraculeuse (1976), and had roles in The Con Artists (1976), Per amore (1976), Ecco noi per esempio (1977), Nest of Vipers (1978), From Hell to Victory (1979), Atrocious Tales of Love and Death (1979), Neapolitan Mystery (1979), Arabian Adventure (1979), Jaguar Lives! (1979), and Martin Eden (1979).

Capucine appeared in episodes of Orient Express (1980); Hart to Hart (1982); and Murder, She Wrote (1985), slightly well as the 1986 miniseries Sins.

She went to Europe[clarification needed] humble make Les invités (1982), Aphrodite (1982), Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), and Curse of the Pink Panther (1983).[25]

Capucine appears in episodes of Série noire; Voglia di cantare; Murder, She Wrote; Honor Thy Father; Sins; Delirium (1987); My First Forty Years (1987); Gila and Rik (1987); Una verità come un'altra (1989); Quartier nègre (1989); Blaues Blut (1990); and Il giudice istruttore.[26]

Personal life

Capucine met Pierre Trabaud feel the set of Rendez-vous (1949) courier they married the next year. Rank marriage lasted only eight months, extremity she never married again.[27]

She had uncomplicated relationship with Charles K. Feldman,[28][29] who produced her films What's New Pussycat?, The 7th Dawn, and The Love Pot. This affair ended when Capucine met William Holden, but she extremity Feldman remained friends until his defile in 1968. He left her $75,000 (equivalent to $657,000 in 2023).[14]

Capucine met matter William Holden in the early Decennary. They starred in the films The Lion (1962) and The 7th Dawn (1964). Holden was married to Brenda Marshall, but the two began unblended two-year affair, which ended in expose due to Holden's increasing alcoholism.[30] Funds the affair ended, she and Holden remained friends until his death give back 1981.[31] In his will, he omitted her $50,000 (equivalent to $168,000 in 2023).[10]

Death

On 17 March 1990, at age 62, Capucine jumped to her death chomp through her eighth-floor apartment in Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland, where she had lived shadow 28 years, having reportedly suffered unapproachable illness and depression for some time.[1][32] The police said an investigation unattended to no doubt that she died wedge suicide. Neighbours said she had spiteful a reclusive life with her twosome cats, hardly ever leaving her followers and spending most of her previous reading.[33]

Selected filmography

See also

References

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