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Marie Laforêt, actress and singer who had a great success in the 1960s, died Saturday at the age of 80 years. Michel Jourdan, who wrote one of his greatest hits, The Harvest of Love , expressed his excitement about Europe 1. "She was very very happy, very spontaneous, she had a childish side, "What she wanted to sing at first was folk songs, American and sung in English," recalls the lyricist, who also wrote for Charles Aznavour, Brigitte Bardot or Mike Brant.
"She was not thrilled" by the Harvest of Love
"We played and we did, in French, a song that was The Harvest of Love, she was not delighted but her artistic director, Roger Marouani insisted a lot and he called us to try we also on our side, Danyel Gérard and I, to convince this person we did not know: Marie Laforêt, "said Michel Jourdan. "The Harvest of Love" was released in 1963. It is the success and the tubes will be linked: Ivan, Boris and me , It snowed on Yesterday (song-tribute to the Beatles), Come on the mountain , Marie sweetness, Marie anger , What calor la vida ... In the cinema, she shot behind the camera of prestigious directors like Georges Lautner, Claude Chabrol or Henri Verneuil.