French actress Jeanne Moreau died at her Paris home on
Monday July 31, 2017. Her famous sensual presence was backed up with formidable
timing and technique, so much so that every major director wanted to work with
her - Orson Welles, Michelangelo Antonioni, Joseph Losey and Luis Bunuel among
them. Of the three most iconic French actresses of her generation - herself,
Catherine Deneuve and Brigitte Bardot - Moreau was the one with the most
on-screen authority. Post-war French cinema is unthinkable without her. Known
for her husky tones, her other films included 1961's La Notte, directed by
Michelangelo Antonioni; Luis Bunuel's Diary of a Chambermaid (1964); and Tony
Richardson's Mademoiselle (1966). Orson Welles, who worked with her on films
including Chimes at Midnight and his adaptation of Kafka's The Trial, once
described her as the greatest actress in the world. Her lone Euro-western
appearance was as Maria Fitzgerald O’Malley in 1965’s “Viva Maria!” alongside Brigitte
Bardot.
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