Famous for her acting skills and the beautiful blue-green eyes. “The most beautiful eyes in the cinema closed permanently this morning,” wrote her family announcing her death.
Genuine star, Morgane was the first actor who won the Big award for best female actress at the Cannes film festival in 1946, playing a blind girl in “La Symphonie Pastorale” (“the Pastoral symphony”) by Jean-Îτελανουά.
At the zenith of its glory embodied the elegant French woman, and never the scandalous woman. There was a very large star of the French cinema between 1940 and 1960, before it removed slowly from the set to find tranquility in painting.
Born on 29 February 1920 in Îεϊγί-sur-St, near Paris, Morgane seeing since a sign of destiny: “that the privilege of γηÏάσκεις four times less quickly than the others, is the first of a long stroke of fortune that I had during my life.”
Made famous from the age of 18 years old thanks to the movie “Quai des brumes” (“Fused” /1938) in which captivated generations of viewers. In this movie Marcel’s Book is that Jean ΓκαμπÎν of whispers: “you Have nice eyes, you know…” and she says, “kiss me.”
The collective memory keeps by her elegance, her blonde color, her piercing bright eyes. It has the usual diminutive “of the actress with the most beautiful eyes in the world”.
“Pisses me off a little, repeating it so much,” I said Morgane. However, the memoirs of (1977) have the title “Avec ces yeux-la” (“With those eyes”) …
Michelle Morgane turned about 70 movies, some of which, such as the “Remorques” (1939) also with the ΓκαμπÎν, “Les grandes manoeuvres” (1955) with Gérard Philippe, became a classic.
Full of humor, smiled when they called her “bourgeois”. “I have never had the chance to play the sexy woman. It seems that my charm was not on my ass,” she said.
“Because of the image that had formed in the audience, it was hard to accept scenarios with crazy that they age and fall to the alcohol, or become hysterical because they no longer have the age to play roles ingenue: you should never ruin the image that the world has for you”, she declared.
Obsessed with the movies, starting in 1937 playing “Gribouille” by Mark ΑλεγκÏÎ, choosing a stage name that “can be pronounced in all languages”. Her real name was Simone Russell.
In Hollywood, where she continues her career almost got to play in Casablanca, but in that year, 1942, he married the american actor Bill Marshall with whom she had a son, Mike (died in 2005).
Turning to the US four movies, among them “Passage to Marseille” with Humphrey Bogart, which don’t add many things to the glory of.
After the success of “Pastoral agreement”, climbs high in the French cinema.
Playing with the zen-Ï€ÏεμιΠof the era: Jean Marais, Gerard Philippe and Henri Vidal, whom he marries in second wedding.
After the death of the Vidal of a drug overdose, he becomes the companion of the director Gérard ΟυÏί, who died in 2006.
The Morgane has devoted the last phase of her life in painting: “I Find in this the peace. Deep down, I always liked to be alone. And I was never so happy as with the painting”.
They closed the beautiful eyes of the French cinema… ΘΡΗÎΟΣ for Michelle Morgane
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