Simone Simon

Simone Simon ( born April 23, 1910 in Marseille, † 22 February 2005 in Paris) was a French actress.

Life

Simon began her acting career in Parisian theaters. There, she was discovered in 1935 by the American film producer Darryl F. Zanuck. It was a successful Hollywood actress and was among other things next to James Stewart in Henry Kings Seventh Heaven ( Seventh Heaven, 1937) to see. She became famous especially with Jean Renoir's Human Beast (La Bête humaine, 1938) and as a leopard woman in Cat People ( Cat People, 1942), directed by Jacques Tourneur.

After the Second World War she worked mainly in French films. Special attention was paid to La Ronde (La Ronde, 1950) by Arthur Schnitzler's dance and pleasure (Le Plaisir, 1952 ) to short stories by Guy de Maupassant, both. Directed by Max Ophüls

Filmography (selection)

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