Marc Allégret: From André Gide lover to Simone Simon mentor (photo: Marc Allégret) (See previous post: "Simone Simon Remembered: Sex Kitten and Femme Fatale.") Simone Simon became a film star following the international critical and financial success of the 1934 romantic drama Lac aux Dames, directed by her self-appointed mentor – and alleged lover – Marc Allégret.[1] The son of an evangelical missionary, Marc Allégret (born on December 22, 1900, in Basel, Switzerland) was to have become a lawyer. At age 16, his life took a different path as a result of his romantic involvement – and elopement to London – with his mentor and later "adoptive uncle" André Gide (1947 Nobel Prize winner in Literature), more than 30 years his senior and married to Madeleine Rondeaux for more than two decades. In various forms – including a threesome with painter Théo Van Rysselberghe's daughter Elisabeth – the Allégret-Gide relationship remained steady until the late '20s and their trip to...
- 2/28/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Hollywood has had many quintessential young Englishmen, but from the late 1940s through the early '60s, there was only one quintessential young Frenchman: Louis Jourdan. The star of the 1958 Best Picture Oscar winner, Gigi, whose film roles also included those in Madame Bovary, Three Coins in the Fountain, The Swan, The V.I.P.S and Can-Can, Jourdan died Saturday at his home in Beverly Hills, reports Variety. He was 93. As was told in a 1985 People profile, Jourdan - real name Gendre - and his two brothers grew up in the South of France, where their parents managed hotels in Cannes, Nice and Marseilles.
- 2/15/2015
- by Stephen M. Silverman, @stephenmsilverm
- PEOPLE.com
He faced off against James Bond. He was Dracula on television, and he’s probably best known for his starring role in Gigi. Louis Jourdan, who enjoyed a long and varied career in films and TV, has died at the age of 93.Born Louis Gendre in Marseille, he at first worked for his parents in the hotels they ran in the South of France, before heading to Paris to study theatre. He got an early screen role in 1939 in Le Corsaire, but the film went unfinished because of the onset of World War II.During the conflict and the German occupation of his home, Jourdan and his parents were involved with the resistance movement, though he also found time to appear in several movies that saw the projector’s light after the occupation ended. David O. Selznick saw his work there, and signed him to a contract that found him...
- 2/15/2015
- EmpireOnline
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