Posted on 12/21/2016 10:41:36 AM PST by EveningStar
Michèle Morgan, a French movie actress who starred in the moody masterpiece “Port of Shadows” and who, during a brief Hollywood sojourn, helped introduce Frank Sinatra to film audiences in his first big role, died Dec. 20. She was 96.
French President François Hollande announced the death, calling her “an elegance, a grace, a legend that left a mark on many generations. . . . The greatest directors called upon her, and she was part of masterpieces that still live in everyone’s memories.” No other details were provided.
In a career spanning seven decades, Ms. Morgan was best known as the ethereal femme fatale in “Port of Shadows” (1938), a film at the core of the poetic realism movement in French cinema. As visually sumptuous as they were bleak, the movies often involved working-class characters and social outcasts whose destinies are beyond their control — in essence, a precursor to the cynical and sinister world of American film noir.
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This wouldn’t be the Michele the Beatles sang about all those years ago, would it?
She was shiny?
The Fallen Idol. She was lovely.
He needed to hang up the chick habit.
Wow, I had no idea she was still living (until recently, that is).
RIP.
Her daughter is Danièle Thompson, French film director. Her son and grandson have also been in pictures.
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