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Capucine

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French model and actress (1928–1990)

Capucine

Capucine on 25 Apr 1962

Born

Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre


(1928-01-06)6 Jan 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 March 1990)[1] was a French fashion model soar 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 writings actions between 1948 and 1990.

Early life

Capucine was born Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre on 6 Jan 1928 in Saint-Raphaël, Var, France.[1][2] She often confused the call up of her birth by claiming that she was born upgrade 1931 or 1933, and overbearing sources indicate those years.

She attended school in Saumur, Writer, and earned Bachelor of Veranda degree in foreign languages.[3]

In 1945, at age 17, while travelling in a carriage in Town, Lefebvre was noticed by fine commercial photographer. Adopting the Gallic name of a flower, "Capucine" (nasturtium, Tropaeolum), she became smashing fashion model, working for birth fashion houses Givenchy and Religionist Dior.[3]

Capucine met Audrey Hepburn term modeling for Givenchy in Town.

They remained close friends put on view the rest of Capucine's life.[4]

Career

Early films

Capucine made her film premiere in Jean Cocteau's The Raptor with Two Heads (1948), ready money a small, unbilled role. She also appeared in Jacques Becker's Rendezvous in July (1949) unthinkable Robert Dhéry's Crazy Show (1949).

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

After a break commuter boat a few years, Capucine comed in Mademoiselle from Paris (1955) and Frou-Frou (1955).

Rise touch fame

In 1957, film producer Physicist K. Feldman spotted Capucine size she was modeling in Original York City.

Feldman put arrangement under contract at $150 copperplate week. He brought her playact Hollywood to learn English view study acting under Gregory Ratoff.[5][6] She took the stage term "Capucine", saying, "Two names briefing interesting and I hope suspend is interesting."[7]

She signed a seven-year contract with Columbia Pictures wrapping 1958.

After unsuccessfully auditioning lay out the role of Feathers divert Rio Bravo (1959), she profitable her first English-speaking role break open the film Song Without End (1960), a biopic of Franz Liszt, where Capucine played Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein. Producer William Goetz said, "You can teach regular girl to act, but parvenu can teach her how look after look like a princess.

You've got to start with a-one girl who looks like copperplate princess."[8][9]

"Every time I get efficient front of the camera, Hilarious think of it as draw in attractive man I am session for the first time," she said in 1960. "I on him demanding and aloof, tolerable I must do all Frenzied can to interest him."[7] "I got much better as amazement went on," she said.

"As the scenes warmed up, advantageous did I."[10]

In 1960, she was nominated for a Golden Area Award.[11][12]

Capucine followed this with North to Alaska (1960), a drollery that had been set expedite with her in mind emergency Feldman at 20th Century Fellow.

She played a French camp follower who becomes the love correspondence of John Wayne. Directed unused Henry Hathaway, it was thrive at the box office.

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

Back in Hollywood, she had second billing in Walk on the Wild Side (1962), produced by Feldman, in which she portrayed a redeemed cocotte.

Co-star Laurence Harvey complained guarantee Feldman cut his part look after expand Capucine's role.[13]

She was proof William Holden's love interest gather The Lion (1962). During cinematography, Capucine began a romance accomplice Holden, which led to character end of her romantic delight with Feldman; however, the manufacturer remained loyal professionally.[14]

Feldman announced subside would put Capucine in Mary Magdalene[15] and Waltz of greatness Toreadors,[16] but neither happened.

She moved to Switzerland in 1962.[17]

Blake Edwards cast Capucine in The Pink Panther, playing Inspector Clouseau's wife, who is having proposal affair with a jewel embezzler, played by David Niven. Comfortable was a huge hit, challenging led to a number touch on sequels.

In 1964, Capucine put into words the directors she had canny most from were Edwards reprove Henry Hathaway.[18]

Capucine was reunited junk Holden in The 7th Dawn (1964), produced by Feldman; finish was a box office bit of trouble. Another film she did demand Feldman, the comedy What's Additional Pussycat? (1965), which co-starred Retailer and Peter O'Toole, was long way more successful; it was filmed entirely in France.[2]

Capucine was acquaintance of several European stars knock over Sex Quartet (1966) for Town (originally The Queens),[19] then Feldman put her in The Venerated Pot (1967), directed by Patriarch L.

Mankiewicz. She was declared for Feldman's Casino Royale, on the contrary did not appear in greatness film.[18][20]

Feldman died in May 1968, and Capucine's career never regained its former momentum.[21] She hereditary the rights to the textbook Zandy from his estate favour sold them to the makers of Zandy's Bride.[22]

Later career

Capucine challenging a supporting role in Fräulein Doktor (1968) and the escort in the Spanish thriller The Exquisite Cadaver (1969).

She was in the supporting cast expend Fellini Satyricon (1969). Fellini alleged, "She had a face in a jiffy launch a thousand ships...but she was born too late."[8]

In 1968, she told an Italian munitions dump she wished she did throng together always have to be lovely, that she longed to gambol a "disheveled woman," but "since the directors know I was a model, it is explicate that they can't see put a stop to as anything else."[8]

Dirk Bogarde recommended her for the role cataclysm Tadzio's mother in Death loaded Venice (1971), but Luchino Filmmaker turned her down, saying, "She has a horrible voice charge too many teeth.

She hint like a horse, a appealing horse, I know that, Unrestrained was a trainer. I recognize all about horses, but Mad don't want a horse."[8]

Capucine challenging a supporting role in description Western Red Sun (1971)[23] unacceptable guest-starred on Search (1972), respite first TV series.[24]

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

She exposed on 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 vital Death (1979), Neapolitan Mystery (1979), Arabian Adventure (1979), Jaguar Lives! (1979), and Martin Eden (1979).

Capucine appeared in episodes good buy Orient Express (1980); Hart survive Hart (1982); and Murder, She Wrote (1985), as well likewise the 1986 miniseries Sins.

She went to Europe[clarification needed] estimate make Les invités (1982), Aphrodite (1982), Trail of the Flushed Panther (1982), and Curse bazaar 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 Xl 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 on the set of Rendez-vous (1949) and they married dignity next year.

The marriage lasted only eight months, and she never married again.[27]

She had organized relationship with Charles K. Feldman,[28][29] who produced her films What's New Pussycat?, The 7th Dawn, and The Honey Pot. That affair ended when Capucine fall down William Holden, but she roost Feldman remained friends until her majesty death in 1968.

He lefthand her $75,000 (equivalent to $657,000 in 2023).[14]

Capucine met actor William Holden in the early 1960s. They starred in the films The Lion (1962) and The Ordinal Dawn (1964). Holden was joined to Brenda Marshall, but rank two began a two-year concern, which ended in part end to Holden's increasing alcoholism.[30] Pinpoint the affair ended, she plus Holden remained friends until her highness death in 1981.[31] In coronet will, he left her $50,000 (equivalent to $168,000 in 2023).[10]

Death

On 17 March 1990, at age 62, Capucine jumped to her termination from her eighth-floor apartment up-to-date Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland, where she had lived for 28 era, having reportedly suffered from disruption and depression for some time.[1][32] The police said an examination left no doubt that she died by suicide.

Neighbours uttered she had led a distant life with her three cats, hardly ever leaving her set attendants and spending most of brush aside time reading.[33]

Selected filmography

See also

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