Capucine

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Capucine (1962)

Capucine (born January 6, 1928 as Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre in Saint-Raphaël , † March 17, 1990 in Lausanne ) was a French film actress .

Life

Capucine was born as the daughter of a French middle-class family and began a career as a mannequin in Paris at the age of 15 (for Dior and Givenchy, among others ). She made her first film at the age of 21 ( Jacques Becker's Rendezvous de Julliet 1949), but international success only came ten years later when the producer Charles K. Feldman “discovered” her. She studied acting with George Ratoff ; Columbia Pictures signed her and gave her the first lead role as Princess Carolyne in the Franz Liszt biography Few Are Chosen from 1960.

In 1963, she demonstrated her comedic talent in the movie The Pink Panther alongside Peter Sellers , David Niven , Claudia Cardinale and Robert Wagner . From the mid-1960s on, she mainly starred in European films. The Italian director Fellini hired her in 1970 for his film Fellini's Satyricon .

Capucine suffered from bipolar disorder for most of her life . She put an end to her life in 1990 when she threw herself out of her apartment on the eighth floor in Lausanne.

Your pseudonym is of French origin and means nasturtium (watercress).

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Capucine  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary to Capucine in: Los Angeles Times
  2. ^ Obituary for Capucine in: The New York Times
  3. ^ Mike Campbell: Meaning, origin and history of the name Capucine. Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Capucine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lefebvre, Germaine Hélène Irène (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Raphaël , France
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1990
Place of death Lausanne , Switzerland