Micheline Nicole Julia Emilienne Chassagne was born in
Paris, France on August 22, 1922. Known as Micheline Presle, she made her
screen debut in 1937. She had small roles in Pierre Caron's “La Fessée” (1937),
Jean de Limur's “Petite peste” (1938), and Christian Stengel's “Je Chante”
(1938) before being "discovered" by director Georg Wilhelm Pabst, who
cast her in a leading role in his film “Jeunes filles en détresse” (1939).
Presle went on to appear in more than one hundred films after that, including
films on both sides of the Atlantic. She has also worked extensively in
television. She is one of the most prolific actresses ever to have worked in
French cinema.
During the late 1970s and 1980s, Presle worked
predominantly in television. Those film roles she had were in fairly
insignificant films. ). Presle has acted in a fair number of films in the last
two decades. Among her other roles, she has appeared in Alexandre Jardin's “Fanfan”
(1993), her daughter Tonie Marshall's “Pas très catholique” (1994), “Enfants de
salaud” (1996), “Vénus beauté (institut)” (1999), and “France boutique” (2005),
Claude Lelouch's “Les Misérables” (1995), Danièle Dubroux's “Le Journal du
séducteur” (1996), Gérard Jugnot's “Fallait pas!” (1996), Francis Girod's “Mauvais
genre” (2001), and Merzak Allouache's “Chouchou” (2003). Presle has acted in a
wide variety of genres, but she is a particularly good comic actress. Among her
many films was one Euro-western “The Legend of Frenchie King” (1971) as Aunt
Amelie. Presle was married to director, actor William Marshall [1917-1994] from
1950-1954 and is the mother of director, screenwriter and actress Tonie
Marshall.
Today we celebrate Micheline Presle’s 90th
birthday.
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