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Such an amazing actress died today.
She was devoted to Orson Welles, among others, and starred in The Immortal Story (1968) as the woman who is impregnated by a young sailor on the orders of a rich old bastard who wanted to leave something to the world. Also played Doll Tearsheet in Wwelles’s Chimes at Midnight (1964).
But her classic was in Francois Truffaut’s Jules et Jim (1962). In this scene she sings Le tourbillon (The whirlwind). her strong features and sheer presence shows that you had no need to give a flash of your bits to catch the attention of all.
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Scep…
Not familiar with her, thanks for sharing information and thread..
Her vocal abilities meaning/passion,yes,seen, feel from watching. But sorry hee hee, not understood a word. Well still UK language hee hee has me off some.
Those dam yanks got down pat..bloke new meaning/vocabulary earlier. And spelling too.Have a good night.. my night just starting….work
True Sceptical Guy. Every things all sex today rather than sheer character and persona. Don’t get me wrong….i’m the first to admire Pamela Anderson running along the beach in a skimpy swimsuit in Baywatch but just agreeing that there was a big difference in women’s acting ability and attitude in the ‘golden years of the ‘silver screen ‘ etc
Well, acting could be pretty ham in the so-called ‘golden age’, and Moreau was seen in very sexual terms. I mean,, she was sexy lol.
Jeanne Moreau was special. Her mum was one of the Tiller Girls, from Oldham (I think)? but certainly a lassie from Lancashire. Her dad was a Paris restaurateur who slapped her when he found out she was appearing on stage. When she saw Antigone (the Anouilh version, which I’ve never seen), she decided that acting was her career.
I picked up on her from my love of Orson Welles movies. Welles thought Moreau the greatest actress he had ever seen.
Her face has that tough-wise quality about it.
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Well to be honest Sceptical Guy…women were brought up far differently back then than they were today. And Hollywood had different standards. Which proves another point…….tell me if i’m wrong but all Hollywood producers and Directors were Male so that means if the actresses were better, the whole male direction was better meaning that the whole standards were better from a male and female point of view.
It’s the writers , and the producers and the top guys at the production company who have the final say in what goes out in a film so tell me this……Why is there no sex and swearing in Disney films on the whole (just in case some one wants to have a pointless argument)
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Thing is as well Sceptical Guy…tough and wise look does not necessarily mean that one is tough and wise in reality.
Not sure what you mean about Disney and Hollywood, mrq.
Moreau wasn’t a big Hollywood actress, or rather ther most interesting films weren’t made in Hollywood..Jules et Jim being a point.
But her Orson Welles films were the most interesting to me.
Welles was male, for sure, but hardly the standard Hollywood producer of the day. After Citizen Kane, he was blacklisted and smeared (an attempt was made by the Hearst crowd – (Hearst was the model for Kane); they apparently tried to frame him on a child-sex charge at one point). That meant his actors and actresses were very poorly paid and he was making films on a hand-to-mouth existence. Moreau was devoted to him and worked for him in 3 movies (The Trial, Chimes at Midnight and The Immortal Story) for next to nothing, I believe.
Tough and wise being the same? Of course not, mrq. Whoever said they were?
Thing is Sceptical Guy…you know way more than me on this subject…tell you what i’ll do……here’s a question for you….You ever heard of the actress Mary Ure? She was amazing actress to me as well as beautiful…Where Eagle’s Dare was the film i always saw as a kid with her in. Can you recall her in any films you may have seen over the years?
Didn’t Orson Welles do the voice over for…..War Of The Worlds?
Sorry, misterq, I don’t know Mary Ure.
And, yes, Welles wrote the radio script for War of the Worlds in 1938 which sent millions of Americans fleeing their homes in panic at what they thought was a real martian invasion. It made his name.
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