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French actress Simone Simon dies (remember 'Cat People'?)
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| 2/23/05
Posted on 02/23/2005 8:28:27 AM PST by Borges
Simone Simon, the French actress who starred in 1942 horror film The Cat People, has died in Paris aged 93. Born in Marseille, Simon began her career as a model before coming to the attention of Hollywood studio head Darryl Zanuck.
She was given a contract that saw her act in 11 US movies, including 1937's Seventh Heaven opposite James Stewart.
After the acclaimed Cat People she returned to France to star in famed director Jean Renoir's La Bete Humaine.
Her triangular, almost feline face helped Simon make an impression early in her career but her Hollywood progress was hampered by appearances in unremarkable films.
Disenchanted with Hollywood in general and film studio 20th Century Fox in particular, she returned to France to be re-established as an international star in La Bete Humaine in 1938.
World War Two brought Simon back to the US in the 1940s, where she starred in a series of horror films including All That Money Can Buy, Cat People and its sequel The Curse of the Cat People.
Simon made a handful of films in France in the 1950s before retiring in 1956.
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posted on
02/23/2005 8:28:28 AM PST
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Borges
To: Borges
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posted on
02/23/2005 8:29:36 AM PST
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Borges
To: Borges
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posted on
02/23/2005 8:31:34 AM PST
by
Dark Skies
("The sleeper must awaken!")
To: Borges
Last of the French, throbbing mattress kittens.
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02/23/2005 8:31:45 AM PST
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Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
To: Borges
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posted on
02/23/2005 8:31:48 AM PST
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theDentist
(The Dems are putting all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
To: PetroniDE; Slings and Arrows; Lady Jag
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02/23/2005 8:33:42 AM PST
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martin_fierro
(I am not Deep Throat)
To: Borges
I would describe her face as heart-shaped rather than triangular. Quite striking. I remember seeing Cat People, and it was one strange film. No "cat people" in it at all, as I recall, though it has been many years since I saw it.
To: Borges
Great remake with Natasia Kinsky (and the David Bowie soundtrack) a few years ago.
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posted on
02/23/2005 8:36:41 AM PST
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Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: Borges
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posted on
02/23/2005 8:37:11 AM PST
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nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: Psalm 73
It was 23 years ago! Time flies.
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02/23/2005 8:37:20 AM PST
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Borges
To: Irene Adler
Val Lewton's two Cat People movies were wonderfully creepy because of what they didn't show, rather than for what they did show. It was all about atmosphere, hinting at creepiness.
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posted on
02/23/2005 8:40:49 AM PST
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Publius
(The people of a democracy choose the government they want, and they ought to get it good and hard.)
To: Publius
The Russian born Lewton was one of the few Producer visionaries. Cat People was poetically directed by Frenchman Jacques Tourneur who went on to make the definitive film noir 'Out of the Past'.
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posted on
02/23/2005 8:43:22 AM PST
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Borges
To: Psalm 73
Great remake with Natasia Kinsky (and the David Bowie soundtrack) a few years ago. Few? That was 23 years ago.
Still, I loved it, Kinski was a babe and Malcom McDowall was great.
To: Borges
In one of her bios her maid says that she would reward men she was attracted to with a gold key to her bedroom....Meow!
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02/23/2005 8:52:26 AM PST
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Lee Heggy
("In Missouri we don't call them "Guerrillas")
To: Borges
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posted on
02/23/2005 8:53:35 AM PST
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najida
(The older I get, the more I hate gravity.)
To: Borges
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
[The Japanese version]
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posted on
02/23/2005 9:16:43 AM PST
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Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Borges
After the acclaimed Cat People she returned to France to star in famed director Jean Renoir's La Bete Humaine.
'La Bete Humaine' was made before Cat People. Any fact checkers at the BBC?
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02/23/2005 9:19:53 AM PST
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Borges
To: antiRepublicrat
"Kinski was a babe...."
Wasn't she married to Rick Okasek from The Cars? - that was one ugly mug, (but a lucky guy)
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02/23/2005 9:35:16 AM PST
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Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: Psalm 73
Wasn't she married to Rick Okasek from The Cars? - that was one ugly mug, (but a lucky guy) No, that's Paulina Porizkova, the "brainy" Czech supermodel, one of the women who defined the term.
To: antiRepublicrat
David Bowie Soundtrack...like putting out fire..with gasoline!!!
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02/23/2005 10:26:21 AM PST
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vetvetdoug
(Just when one thinks life is strange, it gets stranger.)
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