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From Perversion to Purity: The stardom of Catherine Deneuve
Table of contents :
Front matter
Contents
List of contributors
Introduction
Polanski’s Deneuve: ‘frigidity’ and feminism
Buñuel blonde
Demy and Deneuve: the princess and the post-’68 fairy tale
Deneuve’s Italian interludes
Incongruous femininity: Catherine Deneuve and s political culture
‘Madame La France’: Deneuve as heritage icon
Of faces and roles: Deneuve–Téchiné
Deneuve in the s
The killing of sister Catherine: Deneuve’s lesbian transformations
Belle toujours: Deneuve as fashion icon
Index
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The stardom of Catherine Deneuve
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Catherine Dorléac is born (her parents are actors, she has three sisters); father Maurice Teynac ; mother Renée Deneuve.
She meets Roger Vadim (director of And God created Woman, he was married to Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda). She's minor and not married.
Birth of son Christian Vadim.
Wedding with David Bailey (Art Photographer)
Fatal car crash on the french riviera: her sister, actress Françoise Dorléac dies.
Deneuve is hurted by a big ice rock falling from a roof
Best actress nomination at the British Awards (Belle de jour)
Deneuve falls in love with famous italian actor Marcello Mastroïanni (La Dolce Vita)
Official divorce from David Bailey
Birth of daughter Chiara Mastroïanni
Friendly separation from Marcello Mastroïanni
1st César nomination (Le Sauvage).
Album with musician-artist Serge Gainsbourg (Dieu est un fumeur de Havanes)
She wins her first Cesar (The Last Metro)
3rd César nomination (Hôtel des Amériques).
She meets Pierre Lescure (Canal + Pay TV tycoon and now Vivendi Universal VP)
She gives the Golden Palm at Cannes (Maurice Pialat)
4th César nomination (Agent trouble).
5th César nomination (Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre).
She wins her second Cesar, garners Oscar and Golden Globe nominations (Indochine)
Best actress at the Women in Film Crystal Awards
7th César nomination (Ma saison préférée).
She is vice-president of the International Film Festival of Cannes with American Clint Eastwood
She is honnored at San Sebastian (Spain)
One of the sexiest stars of the century (#38) - Empire Magazine
She is honnored at Geneva (Sw Bardot, Deneuve, Fonda
For filmophiles, “Bardot Deneuve Fonda: My Life With The Three Most Beautiful Women In The World,” offers intimate portraits of a trio of great mid-century actresses.
For Europhiles, it offers a panoramic view of “La Dolce Vita” on the Old Continent after World War II. A great time for those who survived the conflict in one piece.
A couple of years ago the scribe read “The Good, the Bad, and the Dolce Vita, by blacklisted actor Mickey Knox. Although enjoyable, Knox was entering the universe in question by the back door and could not write worth a lick.
Vadim’s a different case altogether. His father was the son of a Russian diplomat chased from the mother country by Bolsheviks: “Like all children of Russian diplomats, he spoke French fluently. After graduating in political science, he took the civil service examination and passed with flying colors. Named consul at the age of twenty-eight, he married a French woman, Marie-Antoinette Ardilouze. His first post was the consulate in Alexandria, Egypt.”
You get the idea.
Those hip to European culture know the best way to rebel in life is to have an aristocratic background and that is what Vadim did, throwing his lot in with the long-hairs (of his day anyway), opting for a life in film, and developing a great reputation as seducer of (younger) ladies.
His first was Brigitte Bardot whom he met on a Parisian bus when she was just years-old. He spent the next few years dodging her father “Pilou,” whom was under the impression his daughter was still a virgin, when Vadim had settled that question well before they married once Brigitte turned
Vadim/Bardot made a unique team, he a writer of characters for her, she the muse who played them out before the cameras. Neither could have made it without the other and it is their tale which is most interesting of the three largely because neither is