Michèle Girardon
Michèle Girardon ( born August 9, 1938 in Lyon, † March 25, 1975 ibid.; Complete name: Michèle Henriette Léone Girardon ) was a French actress.
Biography
Michèle Girardon visited after leaving school at the conservatory of her hometown. While still a teenager, she was hired in 1956 by Luis Buñuel for a role in the adventure film miasma of the jungle. At 20, she won a competition entitled " The most photogenic girl in France" and then worked as a photo model.
1958 Michèle Girardon played supporting roles in the comedy Vive les vacances light summer and in Louis Malle schwerblütigem drama The lovers, with Jeanne Moreau. 1959 gave her Éric Rohmer the female lead in his parable Cling Film in the sign of Leo to a lebensuntüchtigen young man who understands not to learn from the warnings of doom.
1962 seemed to the young actress with a role in the Howard Hawks turned on location in Africa Hollywood adventure Hatari! the breakthrough came. But in addition to partners such as John Wayne, Hardy Kruger, Elsa Martinelli and the actual main characters from the animal kingdom Michèle Girardon was able to gain any lasting attention.
In the next ten years she had numerous appearances in works of decreasing quality, including in the 1964 film Soraya Sandals - Slave of the Orient and 1965 in two German Karl May movies Robert Siodmak. Even the German TV series Count Yoster are recorded to the honor of Michèle Girardon 1968 as a guest star.
After the end of an unhappy relationship she took at the age of 36 years with an overdose of sleeping pills life.