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August 12: A Day - and Night - Under the Stars with Catherine Deneuve

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQden2jdAJo-5XOyB4uEUESNX7fH2iMOPHFfRazkTaSpCLp9exdFhJ5kKxNs_xATVeX6MCuCpaeYgYiGobalskweVWCC7o4repOzSNDNtwsqG5reME2llb3BSNzPKdYN03Z33K1kb2e9M/s1600/catherine_stunning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQden2jdAJo-5XOyB4uEUESNX7fH2iMOPHFfRazkTaSpCLp9exdFhJ5kKxNs_xATVeX6MCuCpaeYgYiGobalskweVWCC7o4repOzSNDNtwsqG5reME2llb3BSNzPKdYN03Z33K1kb2e9M/s400/catherine_stunning.jpg" width="336" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal">This is my first entry for the 2013 TCM Summer Under the Stars Blogathon now in progress and hosted by Jill Blake of<a href="http://sittinonabackyardfence.com/"> http://sittinonabackyardfence.com/</a> and Michael Nazarewycz of<a href="http://scribehardonfilm.wordpress.com/"> http://scribehardonfilm.wordpress.com</a>. Visit their sites for more information on the month-long blogathon and links to participating blogs.</div> <a name='more'></a> In June 1965 the American magazine, Look, carried a feature entitled, "The Sister Stars of France" celebrating, with pages of pictures and a little hyperbolic prose, the Dorleac sisters of Paris. The piece commended their family which, "after only three generations in the theater, has given France not one, but two, gifted girls." The Dorleac sisters were <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-birthday-tribute-to-francoise-dorleac.html" target="_blank">Francoise</a>, then 23, and Catherine, about to turn 22, who took her mother's maiden name, Deneuve, to avoid being confused with her sister. The "soignee" Francoise was described as "mistily delicious" in one of her recent films, That Man from Rio (1964), and "sweet" Catherine was pronounced "the crushable girl in a crushing world" in one of hers, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964). Just two years later, in June 1967, Francoise perished in a car crash. By then, Catherine had added a twist or two to her pristine screen persona. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWjtUWkc-zPyMIr3tPxW_oJTmWXIMls84TJjknqyisFjZ11M6_S6maxIFr2JlUsup-60qDpPnPv4cnRmxMyBnTWnLAg9NL5bTu7oS-plRpA_aRyWdWOOk24c7v77VweFV4E-HJtozAzH0/s1600/Umbrellas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWjtUWkc-zPyMIr3tPxW_oJTmWXIMls84TJjknqyisFjZ11M6_S6maxIFr2JlUsup-60qDpPnPv4cnRmxMyBnTWnLAg9NL5bTu7oS-plRpA_aRyWdWOOk24c7v77VweFV4E-HJtozAzH0/s320/Umbrellas.jpg" width="264" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Umbrellas of Cherbourg airs on TCM on August 12 at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific</td></tr></tbody></table> The Look article had mentioned that Catherine's next picture was to be Repulsion. That film, directed by Roman Polanski and released in the U.S. in October 1965, showcased Catherine as a withdrawn young woman who goes violently psychotic while staying alone in her vacationing sister's London apartment. In 1967, she would make two noteworthy films. The Young Girls of Rochefort, a lollipop-colored musical, co-starred Catherine and her sister, Francoise, as a pair of dreamy twins longing to leave their seaside town for Paris; it was directed by <a href="http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/director.php?director_id=13" target="_blank">Jacques Demy</a> (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg). In her second feature of that year, Luis Bunuel's surreal and erotic Belle de Jour, the film with which she is most often identified, Catherine portrayed a refined young Parisian wife with a few psychosexual kinks. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNtVa9emfS02mFQLN4yLXjJPC0-DmAAURAJMm2eiDd87gWglZZ3n2uUpOGm7V02R45rc6skeNTTkEt_6eSTxA5Q1aLXWIbfbfr0hD0TwXW7nHFDxExGRr2Rvpqh409R0evFUeMUbnF26A/s1600/Belle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNtVa9emfS02mFQLN4yLXjJPC0-DmAAURAJMm2eiDd87gWglZZ3n2uUpOGm7V02R45rc6skeNTTkEt_6eSTxA5Q1aLXWIbfbfr0hD0TwXW7nHFDxExGRr2Rvpqh409R0evFUeMUbnF26A/s400/Belle.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption">Belle de Jour airs on TCM August 13 at 2:15am Eastern/August 12 at 11:15pm Pacific </td></tr></tbody></table> The Belle de Jour shoot was demanding. Catherine later recalled that she'd felt exposed in every way and that more of her had been shown, physically, than she had originally been led to expect. She was deeply unhappy on the set and, she remembered, "there were moments when I felt totally used." Francoise was still alive at that time and provided crucial moral support. The sisters were able to talk about her challenges on Belle de Jour, Catherine later said, "in the way you only can when you're personally close and do the same kind of work."  It might seem surprising that Catherine agreed to work with Bunuel once more when he sought her two years later for his Freudian reverie, Tristana (1970). But she had been impressed with the script and thought it important for her to work with Bunuel again - especially in his native Spain. In the end, she would count Tristana among her favorites of her own films. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4egl0jQY40U66zu1ltC4Kh7GpI7nKo1w1bz6qqRCenMvu0PZgLeuXRA-OU_YPT5D2ipSAgTyQF725K1O7OPWXkIwi1LBx7VcwAkbvXOHy2ZFSUSpOoT11rpSlkaiA6Bl4frWsQMGsRrg/s1600/Mississippi2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4egl0jQY40U66zu1ltC4Kh7GpI7nKo1w1bz6qqRCenMvu0PZgLeuXRA-OU_YPT5D2ipSAgTyQF725K1O7OPWXkIwi1LBx7VcwAkbvXOHy2ZFSUSpOoT11rpSlkaiA6Bl4frWsQMGsRrg/s400/Mississippi2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption">Mississippi Mermaid (co-starringJean-Paul Belmondo, shown above) airs on TCM August 12 at 9:45am Eastern/6:45 am Pacific</td></tr></tbody></table> In the late 1960s <a href="http://www.francoistruffaut.com/" target="_blank">Francois Truffaut</a> sent Catherine a lengthy note urging her to "say yes to Hitchcock."  During a trip to the U.S. in the fall of 1968, Catherine had met Hitchcock for lunch at the Plaza. It's likely they discussed his plans to make a film of The Short Night based on a novel of the same name as well as a non-fiction account by a double agent. Hitchcock owned the rights to both books and had traveled to Finland, where the story was set, in August 1968 to scout locations. Among those he hoped would star in the film were Sean Connery and Catherine Deneuve. She received a script from Hitchcock but the project was eventually abandoned when his health failed. Catherine lamented not having the chance to work with him but, thanks to Truffaut, she would have her moment as a Hitchcockian blonde. In the same note in which he urged Catherine to work with Hitchcock, Truffaut also mentioned the project he and she were about to embark upon, Mississippi Mermaid (1969), the first of their two film collaborations. Mississippi Mermaid was also the last in a series known as Truffaut's "Hitchcock Cycle," the group of films he completed during the time he conducted and published his series of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock. Based on a Cornell Woolrich (Rear Window) novel, Mississippi Mermaid's storyline centers on a wealthy Reunion Island plantation owner (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and the arrival of his mail order bride (Deneuve) - who looks nothing like the picture she sent before she sailed to meet and marry him.   <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBrbXSc4hqpAIHsnyqSjVzWu6eunRQe_S2NAQ5FLOd7c74L63YCutq7DQUifV-_IBFkiwlGnCT3yHnC1c2fWkyHic3rNlCMNpAyd6rwtFC2cxsfYR6rq55ihovxcYE5AL69IHESKYF-n0/s1600/mississippi-mermaid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBrbXSc4hqpAIHsnyqSjVzWu6eunRQe_S2NAQ5FLOd7c74L63YCutq7DQUifV-_IBFkiwlGnCT3yHnC1c2fWkyHic3rNlCMNpAyd6rwtFC2cxsfYR6rq55ihovxcYE5AL69IHESKYF-n0/s400/mississippi-mermaid.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">another French twist...</td></tr></tbody></table>Catherine's wardrobe on Mississippi Mermaid was created by one of the great fashion designers of the 20th century, <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/01/ysl_auction200901" target="_blank">Yves Saint Laurent</a>. He designed costumes for her on many films, beginning with Belle de Jour and including Jean-Pierre Melville's last film, Un Flic (1972), and Tony Scott's first feature, The Hunger (1983). The actress and the designer developed a close, lasting friendship; she wore his designs off screen as well as on and became his inspiration and muse. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWktPIb8kgaKPWg6Eeyyus63wZhIibAzsEN44QRzhDk5nXLIRCr7SPk9DDRlcqv6q0laC5KdQXm6kKwSJelLDRCw2gMf-jRkBud71cpGx-9zp7lNUYgdU3IIPMiK8p1plq0igbPkkgfog/s1600/The-Hunger-Catherine-Deneuve-veil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWktPIb8kgaKPWg6Eeyyus63wZhIibAzsEN44QRzhDk5nXLIRCr7SPk9DDRlcqv6q0laC5KdQXm6kKwSJelLDRCw2gMf-jRkBud71cpGx-9zp7lNUYgdU3IIPMiK8p1plq0igbPkkgfog/s1600/The-Hunger-Catherine-Deneuve-veil.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Hunger airs August 13 at 4:15am Eastern/1:15am Pacific on TCM</td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>With a body of work spanning 50 years and including more than 100 mostly European films, Catherine Deneuve has portrayed a wide range of characters on screen, expanding her repertoire (from sweet and innocent to beautiful and aloof to strong and independent) as her career progressed. She came, almost accidentally, to film acting through her sister and was initially admired primarily (and profusely) for her serene and impeccable porcelain beauty. Soon enough she was recognized for the depth and sensitivity of her work and, as her reputation flourished, she was able to pick and choose her roles - with several being developed expressly for her. In 1998, Catherine was interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air. She was intrigued by a quote the host read to her, the words of film critic David Thomson: "Deneuve is a fantastic actress, her beauty is a receptacle for any imagination, perhaps the greatest cool blonde, forever hinting at intimations of depravity." She was pleased, laughed lightly and remarked, with modesty, "I would like to meet the person he's talking about." <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyn3TNdnbMnUfPQ_tFaRYxxMw-FFTbT3a0xU0FaFKmrQ9hv1pCFyjUDYL3NAqcMmJsuRqO8apEVzv1OKWPZNVWofzmrpGQBK5aBsCHHlK24AK6anicRCLx5yEw10GTHpClQT7h_iAslhc/s1600/Cannes_2005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyn3TNdnbMnUfPQ_tFaRYxxMw-FFTbT3a0xU0FaFKmrQ9hv1pCFyjUDYL3NAqcMmJsuRqO8apEVzv1OKWPZNVWofzmrpGQBK5aBsCHHlK24AK6anicRCLx5yEw10GTHpClQT7h_iAslhc/s320/Cannes_2005.jpg" width="212" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Catherine was awarded a Golden Palm at Cannes in 2005</td></tr></tbody></table>Catherine Deneuve, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Indochine (1992); she was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actress for her performance in Belle de Jour; she was a winner, with her co-stars, of the Berlin International Film Festival's Silver Bear award for 8 Women (2002); she won two of France's Cesar awards for Best Actress - for The Last Metro (1980) and Indochine; and won the Volpi Cup prize for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/place-vendome-2000" target="_blank">Place Vendome</a> (1998). In addition, she has been honored with a multitude of special and lifetime achievement awards. TCM's Summer Under the Stars tribute to Catherine Deneuve is much deserved - and also well timed; on October 22, she will turn 70. <div style="text-align: center;">TCM's Summer Under the Stars, August 12: Catherine Deneuve</div><div style="text-align: center;">(all times Eastern/Pacific) <div style="text-align: left;"> </div></div> 6:00am/3:00am - Le Petit Poucet (2001), A fantasy/fairytale directed by Olivier Dahan 7:45am/4:45am - Repulsion (1965), directed by Roman Polanski and succinctly described by producer Robert Evans as a "really offbeat" thriller, it won the Berlin International Film Festival's Silver Bear honors as well as a directorial award for Polanski; in English 9:45am/6:45am - Mississippi Mermaid (1969), Francois Truffaut's Hitchcock-influenced mystery/thriller, with Jean-Paul Belmondo 12:00pm/9:00am - Un Flic (1972), cool and dark neo-noir directed by a master, Jean-Pierre Melville (Bob le Flambeur, Le Samourai), with <a href="http://www.alaindelon.ch/" target="_blank">Alain Delon</a> and Richard Crenna 2:00pm/11:00am - Le Sauvage (1975), Jean-Paul Rappeneau's madcap romp, with Yves Montand, Tony Roberts and Dana Wynter 4:00pm/1:00pm - The Last Metro (1980), a wartime drama set in Nazi occupied Paris, directed by Francois Truffaut, with Gerard Depardieu; Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and winner of 12 Cesar awards 6:15pm/3:15pm - I'm Going Home (2001), directed by Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira; an exploration of mortality and the fourth film Oliveira made after the age of 90, with Michel Piccoli and John Malkovich; nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes  8:00pm/5:00pm - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), all dialogue is sung in this innovative musical directed by Jacques Demy; winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes; nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Foreign Language Film; Grammy-nominated for its score 10:00pm/7:00pm - Tristana (1970), Luis Bunuel's sadomasochistic dream, with Fernando Rey and Franco Nero; Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film 12:00am/9:00pm - Ma Saison Preferee (1993), Andre Techine's emotional, character-driven family drama features Catherine Deneuve and Daniel Auteuil as a conflicted brother and sister; with Chiara Mastroianni (Catherine's daughter with Marcello Mastroianni); nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes   2:15am/11:15pm - Belle de Jour (1967), one of Luis Bunuel's late-career masterpieces - about a bourgeois young wife with a secret life, with Michel Piccoli; winner of the Golden Lion and Pasinetti Award at the Venice Film Festival 4:15am/1:15am - The Hunger (1983), an ultra-stylish, dark and erotic vampire tale directed by Tony Scott, with David Bowie and Susan Sarandon; Scott's feature debut - his next film was the blockbuster, Top Gun (1986); in English   <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Xlt7SDnx9qwqpvFnhhdAKsNEePV6IF60i1AM4LhhSY51wExjBIgKJJ1iloXSsM6a_9EtauF3SRKWEEIUuLhpqHk_m5AvjOWoVaX8__Bnv9cAfprkwDeRqM9s8_Q4FUu06eA2VvMkj_8/s1600/Un_Flic.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Xlt7SDnx9qwqpvFnhhdAKsNEePV6IF60i1AM4LhhSY51wExjBIgKJJ1iloXSsM6a_9EtauF3SRKWEEIUuLhpqHk_m5AvjOWoVaX8__Bnv9cAfprkwDeRqM9s8_Q4FUu06eA2VvMkj_8/s400/Un_Flic.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Un Flic airs on TCM August 12 at noon Eastern/9am Pacific</td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> Notes: Look magazine, June 1, 1965 Fresh Air on Stage and Screen, with Terry Gross (WHYY Inc., 2000) The Guardian, Sept. 21, 2005; interview with Geoff Andrew at BFI/Southbank  The Private Diaries of Catherine Deneuve by Catherine Deneuve (Pegasus Books, 2007) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>

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A Birthday Tribute to Francoise Dorleac

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAe65sdYW249pVWmGf1gstxty0kbmCYdj03mZdwcFK4y1pe9nxjWa9ujnVw5WQNOW4AvF9dtDjZY2XL1HsUJ-jytbyh7hO5drLUcLkfF_xFr1z_4Cr1ztRr-VQ1XY622yHmzfnaibdsDM/s1600/Francoise+birthday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAe65sdYW249pVWmGf1gstxty0kbmCYdj03mZdwcFK4y1pe9nxjWa9ujnVw5WQNOW4AvF9dtDjZY2XL1HsUJ-jytbyh7hO5drLUcLkfF_xFr1z_4Cr1ztRr-VQ1XY622yHmzfnaibdsDM/s400/Francoise+birthday.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Francoise Dorleac, older sister of Catherine Deneuve, was born in war-ravaged Paris on the first day of spring, 71 years ago today, March 21, 1942, and lived just 25 years more. </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHvtTtgnGz4wPC4OxospPCjaWqtwJNxmd58-Q5pfPtfKsvFgSXmT9TpyEFtIzFeEFJs1t1FkLFkSgP6oVwMXJcR-Tl58RUa44aEcEtG7R4Moqu7Xg7G2dkr30_0ayXyT-YFu0XeUf9uq0/s1600/Catherine+and+Francoise+at+home.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHvtTtgnGz4wPC4OxospPCjaWqtwJNxmd58-Q5pfPtfKsvFgSXmT9TpyEFtIzFeEFJs1t1FkLFkSgP6oVwMXJcR-Tl58RUa44aEcEtG7R4Moqu7Xg7G2dkr30_0ayXyT-YFu0XeUf9uq0/s200/Catherine+and+Francoise+at+home.jpg" width="144" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Catherine (top) and Francoise</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Her father was Maurice Dorleac, a stage and screen actor, and her mother, Renee Deneuve, was an actress who re-voiced Hollywood films in French (including Judy Garland’s in The Wizard of Oz). Both Maurice and Renee were prominent performers at the Comedie Francaise. Sister Catherine was born a year-and-a-half later, in October 1943. With their parents in the theater, acting did not seem an unusual profession to the girls. Catherine would later recall, “For us, it was a job like any other.” She and Francoise grew up sharing a bedroom and a bunk bed, and each would go into “the family business” at an early age.  Francoise first performed on the stage when she was 10 and made her screen debut at 15 in the short Mesonges (1957). Later, supporting herself as a model for the house of Dior, she studied acting at the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique. As an in-demand model and actress, Francoise led a wildly busy life from her teens to the end of her life. She appeared on stage (among her roles was "Gigi"), on TV, in magazine spreads (including Vogue) and covers, and on film. Over the seven years from 1960 – 1967 she was featured in 16 films, notably:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <a name='more'></a> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/02/movies/MoviesFeatures/02broca.html?_r=0">Philippe de Broca</a>'s New York Film Critics award-winning and Oscar nominated That Man from Rio (1964), co-starring Jean-Paul Belmondo</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6O7b4-zr9YQKDK93GOG3OSeU_esGnP0y4oJvvZ6KVt_O-XuCaG0-2nTJsJEtEZ3Elyz-rMhRX0Xm-31H5JIavY7G_6SB9_FyqyQL0lq8PAQXDAM65p2sDIG1XKQeAVTiJ_RzGPDc2oKM/s1600/That+Man+from+Rio.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6O7b4-zr9YQKDK93GOG3OSeU_esGnP0y4oJvvZ6KVt_O-XuCaG0-2nTJsJEtEZ3Elyz-rMhRX0Xm-31H5JIavY7G_6SB9_FyqyQL0lq8PAQXDAM65p2sDIG1XKQeAVTiJ_RzGPDc2oKM/s320/That+Man+from+Rio.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jean-Paul Belmondo and Francoise Dorleac, That Man from Rio</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Francois Truffaut's once maligned, now acclaimed The Soft Skin (1964) <div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IBr37Lvbkz8" width="560"></iframe></div></div> Roman Polanski's award-winning Cul-de-sac (1966) <div style="text-align: center;"> </div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zxyIxHzv3Lg" width="560"></iframe> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> Jacques Demy's Oscar nominated The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), co-starring her sister Catherine <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNPmm9TAM0wDJxgSIWuOoUIcbWyK5geJS3S8cAvbYjHMd6mR4wX5YetgykWR5OTa3RUlwXn29rgUIdD3kNIOhfNY2QMn_6Uw_6_BCuddPiiSD4ABtCZ-2NARdaRziclhXOX-_RFsojGnA/s1600/Young+Girls+of+Rochefort.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNPmm9TAM0wDJxgSIWuOoUIcbWyK5geJS3S8cAvbYjHMd6mR4wX5YetgykWR5OTa3RUlwXn29rgUIdD3kNIOhfNY2QMn_6Uw_6_BCuddPiiSD4ABtCZ-2NARdaRziclhXOX-_RFsojGnA/s400/Young+Girls+of+Rochefort.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Francoise Dorleac and Catherine Deneuve, The Young Girls of Rochefort</td></tr></tbody></table>Her final film was <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001692/">Ken Russell</a>'s Billion Dollar Brain (1967), co-starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer <div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aa7rrLImVHQ" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div>In Europe, Francoise was likened to Garbo and Dietrich. In the U.S.,  Look magazine featured a June 1965 spread on "The Sister Stars of France," 'sweet' Catherine and 'soignee' Francoise. During the filming of The Young Girls of Rochefort in 1966, a reporter from L'Express sat down with Dorleac and Deneuve for an interview. Their affection for each other as well as a playful competitiveness came through as the two, then 24 and 23, discussed their lives and careers. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBJ0Z5kHA-1GhK_S_tkmSgyRX1YAaAwja-eTVjUhKWi5qG8x6mt1CWSgINTSZULYIvV72P9GQeR1itzApIvZLPlAY_AConmYWVfcnL9pDjhZzudwxUoVQhLBOKkAi3T5PN_gOBktoUuFU/s1600/francoise+and+catherine+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBJ0Z5kHA-1GhK_S_tkmSgyRX1YAaAwja-eTVjUhKWi5qG8x6mt1CWSgINTSZULYIvV72P9GQeR1itzApIvZLPlAY_AConmYWVfcnL9pDjhZzudwxUoVQhLBOKkAi3T5PN_gOBktoUuFU/s400/francoise+and+catherine+2.jpg" width="297" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Francoise and Catherine</td></tr></tbody></table>Francoise chatted about her desire to be less nervous before the camera and  to stop "hiding behind" her hair;  Catherine talked about needing to be less stiff on camera. Francoise, who had so seriously pursued an acting career, seemed intent on becoming a great star. Catherine, who had not initially taken acting that seriously, seemed determined to become a better actress. Both admitted that while they were extremely busy and making very good money, they were "broke." The two discussed their family resemblance and physical differences, with Catherine commenting on Francoise's gamine delicacy and Francoise remarking on her sister's "very sweet face."  At the time, Catherine, who had already given birth to director Roger Vadim's son, was married to photographer David Bailey. Francoise's long engagement to actor/dancer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0144045/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1">Jean</a><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0144045/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1">-Pierre Cassel</a> (who later recalled his deep love and "terrible, destructive passion" for her) had finally come to an end. She and Truffaut had briefly been an item a few years earlier and she would be involved with high profile photographer's agent Albert Koski at the time of her death. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8-1iYq_RdKUuAgnNjeM7JeCpsSGurgAIDp_4Pa2q87er4BJrTI4v8kuujhFDrnVd2gYXQAmVQk4h7O_QhfltxGnVVGKPIqPayUqtCIUk3XB6ILpWRWucDFVDCyweAjibXvDCVApxt67I/s1600/Fd+and+JPC+6-64+for+Twenty+magazine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8-1iYq_RdKUuAgnNjeM7JeCpsSGurgAIDp_4Pa2q87er4BJrTI4v8kuujhFDrnVd2gYXQAmVQk4h7O_QhfltxGnVVGKPIqPayUqtCIUk3XB6ILpWRWucDFVDCyweAjibXvDCVApxt67I/s1600/Fd+and+JPC+6-64+for+Twenty+magazine.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Francoise Dorleac and Jean-Pierre Cassel, Twenty magazine, 1964</td></tr></tbody></table> As the interview wound down, the subject of youth and age came up.  Francoise admitted that, at just 24, she didn't like to think about aging or mortality. She added, "I fear the end, I'm afraid of death."  She would be lost the following summer, the victim of a fiery car crash near Nice in June 1967.  Many years later a reporter asked Catherine Deneuve about the low point of her life. She responded that it had been the death of Francoise. She paused and softly spoke of her sister as a lovely actress, a beautiful woman and "my closest friend."  <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilY7-QUdxJgB_d9MAXY4z7tv6AzGzn3qhPHtkFuUcUw2JF9Fa5j7EvGh2oAA77AWPG1enq1aCYdWCX6BXRCHX5dEazBWnqJ2f1emoiGea29XkTEsKad76g-YL8szIfXXAKtxeele1EJuE/s1600/Catherine+and+Francoise.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilY7-QUdxJgB_d9MAXY4z7tv6AzGzn3qhPHtkFuUcUw2JF9Fa5j7EvGh2oAA77AWPG1enq1aCYdWCX6BXRCHX5dEazBWnqJ2f1emoiGea29XkTEsKad76g-YL8szIfXXAKtxeele1EJuE/s320/Catherine+and+Francoise.jpg" width="192" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Catherine and Francoise</td></tr></tbody></table>Francoise did not have enough time to achieve her dreams, but in the handful of films she completed during her lifetime lies tangible proof of her talent and her potential. Catherine did, as she hoped, become a better actress - and she became more than a star, she became a legend. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUeGCeLSg-y5q3rT6jWw3MFAy7WijpKlElLSqZwqXDxQ7701kJDuMH461t5wwAoTuiPZAuGBcRgvH5-JzmVxI8REWTHWPGq-5xknfg-mwHCO5HHWx43LKIj3S_2nbafNXoOLU8CIOcrxk/s1600/dorleac+looking+deneuve.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUeGCeLSg-y5q3rT6jWw3MFAy7WijpKlElLSqZwqXDxQ7701kJDuMH461t5wwAoTuiPZAuGBcRgvH5-JzmVxI8REWTHWPGq-5xknfg-mwHCO5HHWx43LKIj3S_2nbafNXoOLU8CIOcrxk/s400/dorleac+looking+deneuve.jpg" width="280" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Francoise Dorleac</td></tr></tbody></table>