Capucine

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Actress Capucine

Birth: 

Jan. 6, 1933

 

Death: 

Mar. 17, 1990

Lausanne, Switzerland
Vaud

 
Capucine (nee Germaine Lefebvre) was a French model and an actress.  She was more famous in Europe than America, but appeared in several American films after deciding to move to America when she realized she felt bored.  Notably she appeared in the Pink Panther series with Peter sSellers and had a knack for comedy.  She was married briefly to Pierra Trabaud and was rumored to be bisexual. 

Capucine suffered from bipolar disorder throughout her life and had attempted suicide several times. In 1990, at the age of 62, she committed suicide in Lausanne, Switzerland, by jumping from her 8th-floor apartment window.  Some say her only known survivors were her three cats.

Nominatedfor Golden Globe: Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy
1961 Song Without End

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Capucine, 57, Dies; French-Born Actress In Films of the 60's

Published: March 21, 1990
LEAD: Capucine, the patrician French actress who starred in international movies of the 1960's like ''The Pink Panther'' and ''What's New, Pussycat?,'' was killed on Saturday in a fall from her eighth-floor apartment in Lausanne, Switzerland. She was 57 years old.

Capucine, the patrician French actress who starred in international movies of the 1960's like ''The Pink Panther'' and ''What's New, Pussycat?,'' was killed on Saturday in a fall from her eighth-floor apartment in Lausanne, Switzerland. She was 57 years old.

Her death was a suicide, the police reported yesterday. A Lausanne newspaper, Le Matin, quoted an unidentified friend as saying that Capucine had been suffering from profound depression.

The trim actress with classic, Nefertiti-like features was born on Jan. 6, 1933, into a middle-class family in Toulon. Her original name was Germaine Lefebvre. She earned a degree in foreign languages and modeled in Paris at haute couture houses like Dior and Givenchy.

In the late 1950's, she went to Hollywood, won a contract with the producer Charles K. Feldman, learned English quickly and took a distinctive name, Capucine (pronounced kap-u-SEEN), in honor of France's nasturtium.

Her first film was ''Song Without End,'' an elaborate 1960 biography of Franz Liszt, played by Dirk Bogarde. In an interview soon after the film was completed, she said she had learned acting only during the filming. ''I got much better as we went on,'' she said. ''As the scenes warmed up, so did I.'' The score of films she made included ''A Walk on the Wild Side,'' a sensational 1962 melodrama, and ''Fellini Satyricon,'' the flamboyant 1969 ode to ancient Rome. Others included two adventure films with William Holden, ''The Lion'' and ''The 7th Dawn.'' Mr. Holden, who had a home in Switzerland and who died in 1981, bequeathed her $50,000.

There are no confirmed survivors.

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Capucine At Swingin' Chicks Of the 60s
Website excerpt: HER SWINGIN' '60s CREDENTIALS: This exotic, regal French beauty rose from the modeling ranks to star with some of Hollywood's top leading men in the first half of the '60s; lots of foreign flicks round out her resume, with traumatic affairs and a hidden lifestyle adding to a potent mix that led to suicide in 1990.

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Filmography

Rendez-vous de Juillet (1949)
My Friend Sainfoin (1950)
Bernard and the Lion (1951)
The Toy Wife (1955)
Song Without End (1960)
North to Alaska (1960)
The Triumph of Michael Strogoff (1961)
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
The Lion (1962)
Beach Casanova (1962)
The Pink Panther (1963)
The 7th Dawn (1964)
What's New Pussycat? (1965)
The Queens (1966)
The Honey Pot (1967)
Fraulein Doktor (1969)
The Cruel Ones (1969)
Satyricon (1969)
Red Sun (1971)
Ciao, Federico! (1971) (documentary)
Incorrigible (1975)
For Love (1976)
The Con Artists (1976)
Portrait of a Bourgeois in Black (1977)
Ecco noi per esempio (1977)
Neapolitan Mystery (1978)
From Hell to Victory (1979)
Arabian Adventure (1979)
Jaguar Lives! (1979)
Aphrodite (1982)
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Stray Bullets (1983)
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
Delirium (1987)
Barrio Negro (1989)
Song Without End (1960
Song Without End, subtitled The Story of Franz Liszt, is a 1960 biographical film romance made by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Charles Vidor, who died during the shooting of the picture and was replaced by George Cukor. It was produced by William Goetz from a screenplay by Oscar Millard. The music score was by Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman with music by Franz Liszt, and the cinematography by James Wong Howe.

The film starred Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, and Geneviève Page, with Patricia Morison, Ivan Desny, Martita Hunt, Lou Jacobi, Albert Rueprecht and Marcel Dalio.
North to Alaska (1960)
North to Alaska is a 1960 comedic western directed by Henry Hathaway and starring John Wayne and Stewart Granger. The film script is based on the play Birthday Gift by Ladislas Fodor. The film featured the hit Johnny Horton song of the same name, which topped Billboard Magazine's Country Singles chart and reached #4 on the Pop Singles chart.
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
A Walk on the Wild Side is a 1956 novel by Nelson Algren, most often quoted as the source for Algren's "three rules of life": "Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own." Algren noted, "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives."
The Pink Panther (1963)
The Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards and co-written by Edwards and Maurice Richlin, is a 1963 comedy film, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, and Robert Wagner.
What's New Pussycat (1965)
What's New Pussycat? is a 1965 film directed by Clive Donner and starring Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine and Ursula Andress. It was Woody Allen's film debut, as well as his first produced script. The title theme of the film was written by Burt Bacharach and sung by Tom Jones.
The Honey Pot (1967)
The Honey Pot, also known as The Honeypot , is a 1967 crime comedy film made by Famous Artists Productions and distributed by United Artists. It was written for the screen and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Charles K. Feldman. The screenplay was based on the plays Volpone by Ben Jonson and Mr. Fox of Venice by Frederick Knott and the novel The Evil of the Day by Thomas Sterling. The music score was by John Addison and the cinematography by Gianni di Venanzo.
Satyricon (1969)
Satyricon (Fellini Satyricon) is a 1969 Italian film by Federico Fellini. It is loosely based on the Petronius novel Satyricon, a series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome.
Red Sun (1972)
Red Sun is a film in the western genre with an international flavor. It starred the U.S. born Charles Bronson, a legend of Japanese films, Toshiro Mifune, the French actor Alain Delon and the Swiss actress Ursula Andress. It was filmed in Spain by the British director Terence Young. It was released in Europe in 1971 and in the U.S. in 1972.
Aphrodite (1982)
Aphrodite is a French soft-core exploitation film inspired by a novel by Pierre Louÿs, directed by Robert Fuest with Valérie Kaprisky and Horst Buchholz.
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Trail of the Pink Panther is a 1982 movie starring Peter Sellers. It was the seventh film in the Pink Panther series.
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
Curse of the Pink Panther is a 1983 comedy film, the eighth installment of the Pink Panther series of films started by Blake Edwards in the early 1960s.

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