thanks. She's a looker. I've never seen her before.
"Catherine Deneuve, born on 22nd October 1943 in Paris, is the third daughter of veteran stage and screen actor Maurice Dorleac. She made her screen debut at age 13, assuming the maiden name of Deneuve from her mother, who was an actress also; her sister, Francoise Dorleac was already an international beauty and star when Catherine went into films. Despite the patronage of star-maker Roger Vadim, she did not achieve any prominence until her appearance two years later in Demy's Les parapluies de Cherbourg (1964) - the sentimental story about Genevieve, a young shopgirl hopelessly in love with a local gas-station attendant who woos her, makes her pregnant, goes off to war, writes one noncommittal letter, and sends her flying into a secure yet loveless marriage with another man. This movie won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as numerous other foreign prizes. An exquisite, fragile beauty, aloof and detached in manner, she developed into France's leading female screen personality and one of the top stars on the international film scene in the late 60s."
I am not a huge movie fan, and have not watched her in film; however, I was vaguely aware of her career. Seems I might have first heard of her back in the 70's or 80's.
I looked over her 100 or so films, and nearly all of them are strictly foreign. But three stand out as more Amerian-connected. They are:
The April Fools, co-starring Jack Lemmon and Peter Lawford, directed by Stuart Rosenberg, with music by Marvin Hamlisch, released in 1969.
Hustle, co-starring Burt Reynolds, Ben Johnson and Paul Winfield, directed by Robert Aldrich, realeased in 1975.
The Hunger, co-starring David Bowie(ok, a Brit) and Susan Sarandon, directed by Tony Scott, and released in 1983.
Besides the pic I posted, there are quite a few more stunners of this actress, who at one time was said to be the most beautiful woman in the world.