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27 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said:

Question : was Jeanne Moreau as famous in the UK as Bardot is ? In France she still is but I doubt She could have made the list. Died at 89 in 2017. Have a feeling BB could well follow her footprints…


No way.

 

The most famous French actresses in the UK are Bardot, Tautou, Cotillard and Deneuve. They’re household names. Any others are second rate.

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8 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


No way.

 

The most famous French actresses in the UK are Bardot, Tautou, Cotillard and Deneuve. They’re household names. Any others are second rate.

Leslie Caron also a household name for the older generation. 
 

Not many other non British/Irish  European actresses household names either. Sophia Loren, Penelope Cruz? Anyone else? 

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14 hours ago, Lafaucheuse said:

Question : was Jeanne Moreau as famous in the UK as Bardot is ? In France she still is but I doubt She could have made the list. Died at 89 in 2017. Have a feeling BB could well follow her footprints…

 

She was one of the most famous French film actresses.  Similar to Catherine Deneuve, anyone with an interest in cinema would know of her.   Bardot,  I have to say, is famous more for being a sex symbol than for her film career.  Would Moreau have been Deathlisty?  Definitely. 

 

Jeanne Moreau is in one of my favourite films - A Foreign Field  it's about WW2 veterans returning to Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D-Day.  It's very funny and very moving. Do see it if you can track it down.

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11 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:


No way.

 

The most famous French actresses in the UK are Bardot, Tautou, Cotillard and Deneuve. They’re household names. Any others are second rate.

Interesting to see Tautou here ! She’s not anywhere as famous as Deneuve and Moreau out here. Cotillard and Deneuve make sense. I thought Moreau was up there with them. A wonderful actress and remarkable woman. A sex symbol also which turned Pierre Cardin hetero as they dated for 4 years.

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11 hours ago, Toast said:

 

She was one of the most famous French film actresses.  Similar to Catherine Deneuve, anyone with an interest in cinema would know of her.   Bardot,  I have to say, is famous more for being a sex symbol than for her film career.  Would she have been Deathlisty?  Definitely. 

 

Jeanne Moreau is in one of my favourite films - A Foreign Field  it's about WW2 veterans returning to Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D-Day.  It's very funny and very moving. Do see it if you can track it down.

La baie des anges with Moreau is another one fantastic movie in which she’s a gambling addiction in Cannes. A very aesthetic movie and the dialogs are gold

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2 hours ago, Lafaucheuse said:

Interesting to see Tautou here ! She’s not anywhere as famous as Deneuve and Moreau out here. Cotillard and Deneuve make sense. I thought Moreau was up there with them. A wonderful actress and remarkable woman. A sex symbol also which turned Pierre Cardin hetero as they dated for 4 years.

 

I wouldn't call myself a cinéaste, but Moreau is definitely one of the few French film actresses I have always been aware of.

Audrey Tautou and Marion Cotillard are a different generation. Both have been in films that were very popular in the UK (Amelie and La Vie En Rose) so that has raised their profiles here.

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Interestingly about Tautou,she has only done 1 english language film since she made The DaVinci Code (which made 600 Mllion woldwide) 18 years ago.  Almost like she got a sample of worldwide fame and stardom and said,this ain't for me.

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Sophia Loren and Alain Delon would have been better picks this year.

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I'd add Eva Green to the 'French actresses famous in the UK' list. Casino Royale does a lot of the heavy lifting but she's been in plenty of other English-language productions.

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She was an incredibly pretty girl back in the day, shame she turned into a rabid right-wing racist

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The DL may have jumped the gun on this one. Of course, hard to know by just her voice, but in this phone interview a couple of months ago (after her hospitalisations), her voice still sounds strong and full of life.

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15 minutes ago, The Daredevil said:

 

The DL may have jumped the gun on this one. Of course, hard to know by just her voice, but in this phone interview a couple of months ago (after her hospitalisations), her voice still sounds strong and full of life.

In comparison with Delon…him should be on the DL replacing Bardot ! 

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40 minutes ago, La Tombe said:

In comparison with Delon…him should be on the DL replacing Bardot ! 

Delon is obviously worse but knowing Bardots standing in the New Year I don’t believe the committee made a mistake.

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10 hours ago, The Daredevil said:

 

The DL may have jumped the gun on this one. Of course, hard to know by just her voice, but in this phone interview a couple of months ago (after her hospitalisations), her voice still sounds strong and full of life.

 

She’s still an 89 year old woman with known breathing difficulties. Perhaps not the strongest pick of the year but I just can’t see her going far into her 90s in her state.

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21 hours ago, RetroGamer47 said:

Delon is obviously worse but knowing Bardots standing in the New Year I don’t believe the committee made a mistake.

 

The "committee" have already missed "open goals" like Stuart Gray and Johnny Irwin.

 

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Recently gave an interview by phone in which She stated she worries for Alain Delon. Sounds a little weak to me, has problem articulating. 

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Recent interview with Le Monde, you can hear her speak here, telling she can’t walk anymore unless with two walking sticks, she hates medicine and sounds frail to me… but she feels young and happy apparently ? The photo is from june 

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Happy Birthday to BB….she turns 90 today ! 


She still lives peacefully on the French Riviera…but still complains a lot about usual life. 
 

Since a few days, many French newspaper made their headlines about this anniversary including this local one published in the area where she lives.

 

And by the way, she is the last French icon known worldwide after the passings of J-P Belmondo in 2021 and Alain Delon in 2024.
 

 

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5 hours ago, La Tombe said:

she is the last French icon known worldwide after the passings of J-P Belmondo in 2021 and Alain Delon in 2024.


What about Natasha Nice?

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