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French singer and actress Marie Laforêt passed away on Saturday, Nov. 2 in Genolier, Switzerland, at the age of 80, her family told AFP. Majestic beauty, she shot with the greatest directors. And his musical career was filled with success and charm, with hits like "The Harvests of Love" or "Come, Come".
The announcement came by her daughter, director Lisa Azuelos, through her press attaché, Dominique Segall. The causes of his death have not been specified.
Nicknamed " the girl with golden eyes " (they were actually yellow-green), she played in 35 films, including directors such as Georges Lautner, Henri Verneuil or Pierre Granier-Deferre, Michel Deville, Jean-Pierre Mocky, and sold more than 35 million albums, throughout a very little straight existence.
An exceptional physique that did not always bring him luck, according to her
" My career is odds and ends, but my life is filled from start to finish, " said the one who, married five times, was also a theater actress, writer, antique dealer and auctioneer.
Marie Laforêt was a complex personality, an intellectual who was a thousand miles away from feminism, at the same time modest, snobby and jovial, endowed with a corrosive humor. " I like people who have anguish, " she said. Her exceptional physique - pure and sensual traits, long romantic hair - had not always brought her luck, she said.
Maïténa Doumenach, her real name, was born on October 5, 1939 in Soulac-sur-Mer (Gironde), daughter of an industrialist. At the age of 3, she says 35 years later, she is raped by a neighbor: " Impossible to talk about it for decades ." " Without this rape, " she says, " I would not have done a public job that went against my natural shyness. I chose an outlet job. "
Alain Delon, Belmondo, Verneuil, Molinaro, Solanas, Chabrol ...
As a young girl, she was attracted by the convent, but became passionate about theater in high school in Paris. She then won an actress contest, organized by Europe 1, in 1959. Then, a year later, she appeared at the cinema alongside Alain Delon in the classic Plein soleil (René Clément) and, in 1961, in The girl with golden eyes , taken from a Balzac novel, directed by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco. The latter will become her husband.
She then plays in Happy Easter and Flic or thug of Georges Lautner, with Jean-Paul Belmondo, The morfalous of Henri Verneuil, The hunt for man, Edouard Molinaro, and Fucking Fernand , Gérard Mordillat who earned her a nomination for the César for best supporting actress, Tangos, the exile of Gardel , Fernando Solanas, who won the 1985 jury prize in Venice, among others .. She was also directed by Chabrol, Granier-Deferre, Deville, Mocky ...
" I do not have a voice, I have a stamp "
As for music, his first single came out in 1963, with "The Harvest of Love" written by Danyel Gérard. The success shows other hits, in chains: "Ivan, Boris and me", "It snowed on Yesterday" (song-tribute to the Beatles), "Come on the mountain", "Marie sweetness, Marie anger", "That calor la vida".
While standing aside from the show biz, she filled the Olympia in 1969, touring the world. " I do not have a voice, I have a stamp, " she noted, however, downplaying her personal talent. Adding, as if to show that she was not fooled, do not be ashamed to do what I do : to interpret first-class popular songs .
Gradually, she gives up recordings, prefers writing, especially when she writes her own songs, but also a book noticed: Tales and legends of my private life . Once a Swiss-French binational, Marie Laforêt moved to Geneva, where she ran an art gallery.
In 1994, she published a compilation of her songs in four volumes, covering her 30-year career. She also plays: in 2000, she plays a shocking Maria Callas, which earned her a nomination at Molières.
Marie Laforêt again made the headlines in 2002, but for other reasons than artistic: she is linked by one of her spouses to the family of Didier Schuller, this former director of the office HLM Hauts-de-Seine and convicted in a case of hidden financing. She testifies of her fear in the Thierry Ardisson show, on Canal + and draws a book: Basket of crabs .
In her 80s, she married five times, had three children with Judas Azuelos, a businessman of Moroccan Jewish descent, and then with Alain Kahn-Sriber, a businessman and art collector. His daughter, Lisa Azuelos, director of the movie LOL , with Sophie Marceau, did not hide his difficult relationship with his mother. The latter, for her part, admitted that she had sometimes been too absent with her children.
(With AFP)