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Cinematic icon Annie Girardot dies
Annie Girardot: César du meilleur second rôle
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06/02/2014 - writers_reign said :
The fact that France has, beyond dispute, the finest actresses on both stage and particularly screen in the world doesn't mean that she can afford to lose them to death - I personally am still mourning the loss of Suzanne Flon, who was as iridescent in her final film, Danielle Thompson's Fauteuils d'Orchestre, as she was in John Huston's Moulin Rouge more than half a century earlier. Now we have lost Annie Girardot, who I had the pleasure of seeing on the Paris stage in the one-woman old war-horse Madame Marguerite, barely a decade ago. Girardot was one of an unbroken string of great French actresses who worked in film (and in some cases theatre as well) from the start of the Sound era, including Francoise Rosay, Danielle Darrieux, Arletty, Edwige Feuilliere, Michele Morgan, Simone Signoret, Madeleine Renaud, Madeleine Robinson, Micheline Presle, Suzy Delair, Suzy Prim, Ginette Leclerc, Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, Valerie Lemercier, Catherine Frot, Isabelle Huppert, Isabelle Carre, Sandrine Bonnaire, Sandrine Kiberlain,
Fanny Ardant, Nathalie Baye etc. Girardot, who began her film career in the 1950s with such titles as Maigret tend un piege, with Jean Gabin, was famously ignored by the petulant schoolboys who did their best to de-rail the French Industry in the late 50s/early 60s and was probably thankful - at least she should have been - not to be tarred with the 'nouvelle vague' brush. Ironically her breakout role was in the Italian film Rocco and his brothers with Alain Delon. She worked for Carne in Three Rooms in Manhattan in 1965 and tended to divide her work between stage and screen adding lustre to both mediums as her two Molieres and three Cesars testify. She was in the finest tradition of French actresses and will be sorely missed.
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