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Jeanne Moreau ( French pronunciation: [ʒan mɔʁo]; 23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, director, and socialite. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française.
Jeanne Moreau. Actress: Jules and Jim. When people gave Louis Malle credit for making a star of Jeanne Moreau in Elevator to the Gallows (1958) immediately followed by The Lovers (1958), he would point out that Moreau by that time had already been "recognized as the prime stage actress of her generation."
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Jun 13, 2024 · Jeanne Moreau (born January 23, 1928, Paris, France—died July 31, 2017, Paris) was an actress best known for her multifaceted performances in French New Wave films of the 1950s and ’60s, although she continued her prolific film career into the 21st century.
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Jul 31, 2017 · Jeanne Moreau, the sensual, gravel-voiced actress who became the face of the New Wave, France’s iconoclastic mid-20th-century film movement, most notably in François Truffaut’s “ Jules and Jim...
Jul 31, 2017 · Actress Jeanne Moreau, one of French cinema's biggest stars of the last 60 years, has died at the age of 89. Moreau is probably best known for her role in Francois Truffaut's 1962 new wave...
Jul 31, 2017 · The face of the French New Wave, and so much more, has passed away at the age of 89. Jeanne Moreau was to French cinema as Manet’s “Olympia” was to French painting — the personification of ...
Jul 31, 2017 · T oday, no one bats a heavy-lidded eye at the idea of Jeanne Moreau — who died Monday at age 89 — as one of the world’s great beauties. But even this indisputable fact is proof that all...
