Claude Jade

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Claude Jade in Paris in 1994

Claude Jade (born October 8, 1948 in Dijon , † December 1, 2006 in Boulogne-Billancourt ) was a French actress who participated in about 80 cinema and TV productions. She achieved lasting fame as the leading actress in three films by François Truffaut : Stolen Kisses (1968), Table and Bed (1970) and Love on the Run (1979).

Life and film career

At the age of 15, she began her education at the Dijon Conservatory, parallel to the Lyceum, where she played the Agnès in Molières School for Women in 1964 . In 1966 she received the Prix ​​de comédie . She continued her stage training at the Théâtre Edouard VII in Paris with Jean-Laurent Cochet. She played in TV series, including the leading role of Sylvie Massoneau in Les oiseaux rares . She made her Paris theater debut in 1967 with Sacha Pitoëff in Pirandellos Heinrich IV at the Théâtre Moderne . There she was discovered for the film by François Truffaut and subsequently became his favorite actress ( Stolen Kisses , 1968, table and bed , 1970, love on the run , 1979). In addition to French films such as Édouard Molinaros Mein Unkel Benjamin , an international career followed with 80 cinema and TV films: In addition to Italian and Belgian films, she also appeared in American ( Alfred Hitchcock's Topas ), Japanese ( Kei Kumais Das Nordkap ) and Soviet films (including Sergej Jutkewitsch's Lenin in Paris ). In addition to numerous dramas on television, she was the heroine of the cult series Die Insel der 30 Tode (1979) and the first French daily soap Cap des Pins (1998-2000). In addition to film work, Claude Jade continued to act in the theater.

She married the diplomat Bernard Coste in 1972. In 1976 their son Pierre Coste was born. Because of her husband's appointments as cultural attaché abroad, Claude Jade lived in the Soviet Union and Cyprus for six years in the 1980s . Claude Jade was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1998 . In 2006, Claude Jade succumbed to cancer a few months after her last performance as Célimène in Célimène and the Cardinal .

Training and first roles

The daughter of the professors Marcel Jorré and Marcelle Schneider, born on October 8, 1948 as Claude Marcelle Jorré, received a musical education. At 15 she began her training at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Dijon, where Edwige Feuillère and Marlène Jobert had previously started their careers. In 1964 she played the Agnès in Molière's school for women alongside her teacher André Héraud . She went on a tour of Burgundy. In 1965 she played the young milliner Lily in the television film Le crime de la rue de Chantilly by her cousin Guy Jorré . In 1966 she received the Prix de comédie for her Ondine in Giraudoux's "Ondine" at the Conservatory. After graduating from high school, she began acting training in Paris with Jean-Laurent Cochet at the Théâtre Édouard VII. In 1967, the first TV series Prunelle followed parallel to her training . She changed her name to Claude Jade for her continuous role as Rosette, who assists her aunt Prunelle on detective adventures. After a guest role in the crime series Allô Police, followed in 1967 a lead role as the rare bird Sylvie in the 60-part series Les oiseaux rares by Jean Dewever . The well-known theater director Sacha Pitoëff hired her for his legendary production of Pirandello's Heinrich IV at the Théâtre Moderne . During the dress rehearsal she was discovered by François Truffaut , who shortly thereafter gave her the lead role in his film Stolen Kisses .

Claude Jade & François Truffaut

François Truffaut and Claude Jade at the preview of their third film together, Love on the Run , 1979

She was discovered at the Théâtre Moderne in September 1967 in a performance of Luigi Pirandellos Heinrich IV by François Truffaut . He was "carried away by her beauty, her character, her manners and her joie de vivre". During the day she shot stolen kisses with him , in the evening she played in the theater. And in February Truffaut and Jade led the demonstrations around the Cinémathèque française . Truffaut fell in love with the leading actress, who was 16 years his junior. They got engaged and planned the wedding for June 1968, but shortly before that, Truffaut backed off.

In her debut film in 1968 she played the lead role as Christine Darbon at the side of Truffaut's alter ego Antoine Doinel, alias Jean-Pierre Léaud . In January 2007, the film service wrote in its obituary for Claude Jade that Truffaut had made one of the most beautiful declarations of love in the cinema for his leading actress at the end of Baisers volés : the stranger who proposes marriage to her at the end and then leaves is like Doinel an alter ego Truffauts.

After her debut, the critics are unanimous and regard her as a great new hope for French film: “ Le Figaro ” raves that Valery Larbaud was very impressed with her, and the newspaper “ La Croix ” closes its criticism with “one last Word ”to François Truffaut:“ With Claude Jade, you have not chosen a young girl, but THE young girl. And Jade, Mademoiselle, symbolizes hope! "

After the premiere, Henri Langlois told Truffaut that he wanted to see the couple Antoine and Christine again: in 1970 the two became a married couple in bed and table .

In the sequels Tisch und Bett (1970) and Liebe auf der Flucht (1979), Claude Jade was the "better half" of the couple Antoine and Christine Doinel. In the sequels, Truffaut gave her the stronger part of the couple, which are similar in their youthful impartiality, but differ in the form of love: Christine loves Antoine with all his quirks, while he in turn loves himself above all else. The autobiographical character of the cycle also contains quotes on the love affair between Truffaut and Jade, which later developed into a close friendship.

In 1971, François Truffaut thought of giving Claude Jade the role of male killer Camille in A Beautiful Girl Like Me . At the time, he wrote to his co-author Jean-Loup Dabadie: “I keep an eye on little Jade, but don't tell her anything yet, because I think she's a little too young.” Truffaut later cast Bernadette Lafont, ten years older than him .

The friendship lasted until Truffaut's death. Truffaut called Claude Jade "my third daughter".

Image and image change

The Truffaut films shaped her type as a loving, gentle modern young woman in contemporary cinema, from which she, however, tries to escape. She varied this image in the period comedy Mein Unkel Benjamin (1969): As Manette, she urged her partner Jacques Brel to insist on marriage until she followed him - without a marriage license - into exile. After the German cinema release, critic Renate Holland-Moritz wrote in Eulenspiegel : “One of the great advantages of the film is the acquaintance with the beautiful and highly talented Claude Jade, an actress who also fascinated François Truffaut enough […].” Her Truffaut image she opposes ambivalent characters: In Der Zeuge (1969) she is Cécile, who leaves her fiancée Jean-Claude Dauphin for the mysterious Gérard Barray and who in the end remains alone.

Critical praise earned her the Eléonore between friends Jean-Pierre Cassel and John McEnery in Gérard Brach's film Le bateau sur l'herbe (1971), in which she conjures up a drama carefree and selfish. Another cast is her Julie in Bernard Toublanc-Michel's thriller The Evil Pleasure (1975): An author seduced by her ( Jacques Weber ) finds out about the murder of a patriarchal writer, disguised by four women as an accident. In Benoît Lamy's social satire Trautes Heim (1973), her disoriented and unsympathetic Claire changes from an obedient to a carer based on solidarity.

Nevertheless, she was mostly cast as a positive figure, for example when Laura, who developed from the unruly daughter to her mother's friend, in Serge Korber's family drama Candlelight (1972): Through her love for the teacher Marc ( Bernard Fresson ), she is encouraged to live with her separated parents ( Annie Girardot , Jean Rochefort ) to reunite. This is followed by Françoise , who uncompromisingly in love with a priest ( Robert Hossein ) in Denys de La Patellière's resistance and celibacy drama The Abbé and Love (1973), the shy single widow Dominique in A Pauker to Fall in Love (1978) to her husband's betrayed and retaliated with an affair Gabrielle Martin in Tableau d'honneur (1992).

The Belgian Jacques Faber used the contradictions of their roles for the double role of Anne / Juliette in his film Le choix (1976): as a cheerful and then disappointed partner and as a mysterious temptation. She took on another double role in 1982 in Henri Helman's Lise et Laura . Lise, murdered by the Gestapo, and her likeness Laura, an empowered editor who meets the widower ( Michel Auclair ) almost forty years later and reads Lise's diaries, play here. She is shady as Alice in René Féret's thriller L'homme qui n'était pas là (1987).

In the 1990s and afterwards she was seen in gallantly exaggerated roles, for example as the scheming legacy sneak Lucienne des Grassins in Eugénie Grandet , as the shy lesbian Caroline who saves Michel Serrault 's inheritance in Jean-Pierre Mocky's bonsoir , as the privileged governor's wife Reine Schmaltz in the historical drama The Raft of Medusa (1998) and in 2005 as the charming counterfeiter Emma Nazarova in the television thriller Groupe Flag: Vrai ou faux .

Claude Jade embodied mythological figures (" Sheherazade " in the film adaptation of Shéhérazade , " Pallas Athene " in Ulysse est revenu and " the beautiful Helena " in The Trojan War does not take place ) historical figures such as Louise de La Vallière (Le château perdu) , Lucile Desmoulins (La passion de Camille et Lucile Desmoulins) and Inessa Armand (in Sergei Jutkewitsch's Lenin in Paris ).

International career

Her debut in Stolen Kisses in 1968 also established an international career early on, which took her to the USA in the same year : In 1968/69 she took on the role of Michèle Picard in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Topas . She is the daughter of an agent ( Frederick Stafford ) who is married to a journalist ( Michel Subor ). Michèle helps her father to uncover the spy ring Topas , with whose boss ( Michel Piccoli ) her mother ( Dany Robin ) has an affair. However, the 20-year-old actress turned down an exclusive seven-year contract in order to be able to continue working primarily in her native France. One non-exclusive contract was later canceled.

In Belgium in 1969 she played the lead role in Anne Walter's thriller Der Zeuge , a young murder witness who falls for the suspect ( Gérard Barray ). Benoît Lamy's comedy Trautes Heim (1973) and Jacques Faber's Le choix (1976), in which she played a double role, were also made in Belgium .

In 1973 she starred in two thrillers in Italy . In Gianni Buffardi's Number One (1973) she investigates an art theft and murder case, and in Das Mädchen aus der Via Condotti she supports a private detective ( Frederick Stafford , her film father from Topaz ) in his research as photographer Tiffany . In 1977 she played the leading role of the unhappily married Maria Teresa in Eriprando Visconti's drama Una spirale di nebbia . In 1984 she shot again in Italy in the female lead in the mini-series Wie im Flug .

In 1975/1976 she shot a drama in Japan about the indifference of the Occident towards the Third World: under the direction of Kei Kumai, she travels in Das Nordkap ( Kita No Misaki ) as a nun Marie-Thérèse from Marseille to Yokohama and experiences an impossible love for her the engineer Mitsuo ( Gō Katō ).

Her only German film is Gabi Kubach's Rendezvous in Paris , which was made in 1981 in Munich, Prague and Paris: in a film adaptation of a novel by Vicki Baum, she plays a Berlin woman from the 1930s who puts her bourgeois existence at risk for an affair.

In the early 1980s, Claude Jade, who lived in Moscow from 1979 to 1982, starred in two Soviet films. In Tehran 43 she is the young terrorist Françoise and in Sergei Jutkewitsch's Lenin in Paris she is the revolutionary Inessa Armand .

watch TV

“Cinema or television, it really doesn't make any difference to me. It is a role that is difficult to defend that makes me happy ”- in addition to cinema, Claude Jade was mainly active in television. So she played parallel to Topas the role of the orphan Françoise in the TV saga Mauregard .

As early as 1965, she had her first appearances in front of a television camera as Lily in a TV film by her cousin Guy Jorré , Le crime de la rue de Chantilly . In 1967 she got her first leading role in a series in Les oiseaux rares as pubescent and cheeky Sylvie. Later, she can tackle her friendly screen image on the screen, for example as the cunning serial killer Hélène in Malaventure : Monsieur seul . TV successes were the horror film Chess the Robot , in which she as Penny puts an end to a creepy count, and Everyone loves Mami Rose , in which she appears as the overwhelmed mother of a boy with behavioral disorders. Probably the greatest success of her television career was her role as Véronique d'Hergemont, the courageous heroine of the cult six-part Die Insel der 30 Tode (the six-hour film was shown in twelve parts in Germany).

On television she also played in literary adaptations, for example with Michel Bouquet in Between Death and Life based on Georges Simenon's Die Bicêtre and in the crime thriller La grotte aux loups based on André Besson's Die Wolfshöhle . She was also seen in theatrical adaptations ( Jean-Christophe Averty's TV event A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as Volpone , Die Mondvögel , Mandragola and others). Claude Jade was the depressed Gisèle in Nous ne l'avons pas assez aimée , 1980). After playing Michel Creton's wife in the 1976 film Fou comme François , they played a married couple again in Treize (1980). Une petite fille dans les tournesols , 1984), in which she enters the world of mythology as Marelle mourning the death of her husband , received the Prix des auteurs. Television also took Jade to Germany, where she starred in Gabi Kubach's Rendezvous in Paris in 1981, based on Vicki Baum 's novel of the same name. She was also in Germany as Barbara in the miniseries Wie im Flug (1984), as Suzan Frend in the six-part The Great Secret and in the series Der Hitchhiker (as Monique in the episode Was der Maler Saw ), Kommissar Moulin (as Isabelle in the Episode The Girlfriend From Childhood ) and Julie Lescaut (as Estelle Toulouse in the episode Lynch Justice ). In 2007, TV5 Monde ran the TV thrillers The Secret (2004, with Jade as the victim's mistress suspected of being murdered) and True or False (2005, with Jade as a supposed counterfeiter) on TV5 Monde with German subtitles .

From 1998 to 2000, Claude Jade was Anna Chantreuil's heroine in the series Cap des Pins , the first French daily soap. Her serial husband Gérard Chantreuil played Paul Barge , who was her film partner in Hunted like Monte Christo and La Mandragore .

Since the mid-1990s she has worked almost exclusively for television ( Fleur bleue , Le bonheur des autres , La tête en l'air , Porté disparu , Un enfant au soleil , Das Foundelkind . She is also a guest star in the crime series Une femme d ' honneur , Navarro , Julie Lescaut , La Crim ' and Groupe flag ).

In the new millennium she is still playing for the cinema in Santiago Otheguy's contribution ( Upward ) to the episode film Drug Scenes and in Julien Donada's short film A San Remo . Since the late 1990s, she has also frequently played parts in radio plays on France Culture (including Les Rapapommes , Meurtre pour mémoire , Pot-Bouille , L'Abyssin and Le journal d'Alphonse , a continuation of the Doinel cycle).

theatre

Also a constant at the theater, Claude Jade played continuously in Paris , Lyon , Dijon and Nantes . From 1977 to 1984 she played in six productions by the director Jean Meyer .

Claude Jade played in pieces a. a. by Luigi Pirandello (as Frida in “ Heinrich IV ”), Jean Giraudoux (as Isabelle in “ Intermezzo ” and as Helena in “ The Trojan War Does Not Take Place ”), Sacha Guitry (“ Je t'aime ”), Honoré de Balzac (Adeline Mercadet in “ Der Macher ”), William Shakespeare (Helena in “ A Midsummer Night's Dream ”), Jacques Deval (Clarisse in “ Il ya longtemps que je t'aime ”), Ben Jonson (Colomba in “ Volpone ”), Jean Racine (Junia in “ Britannicus ”), Vladimir Volkoff (Ingeborg Schultz in “Das Verhör”), Henry de Montherlant (Françoise in “ Port Royal ”), Marcel Aymé (Sylvie in “ Die Mondvögel ”), James Joyce (Berthe in “ Banished "), Julien Vartet (Lucie Raboin in" Un château au Portugal "), Michel Vinaver (Hélène in" Dissident, il va sans dire "), Catherine Decours (Marquise de Bonchamps in" Regulus 93 ou la veritable histoire du citoyen Haudaudine " ) and Alfred de Musset (Maria Soderini in Lorenzaccio ).

In 2006, until shortly before her death, Claude Jade delighted the Parisian audience in the title role of Jacques Rampal's play " Célimène and the Cardinal ", which - directed by the author - was also made into a film with her and Patrick Préjean in the summer of 2006 .

Awards

In addition to the “Prix de Comédie” theater prize, she was awarded the Révélation de la nuit du Cinéma in 1970 ( Georges Cravenne's predecessor of his later César ) and in Brazil for her performance in Le bateau sur l'herbe (O Barco na relva) with the Golden Owl honored. In 1975 she received the Prix ​​orange at the Cannes International Film Festival , in 2000 the New Wave Award in West Palm Beach for her role in the film world and in 2002 in Puget-Théniers the Prix ​​Réconnaissance des Cinéphiles . In 1998, Claude Jade became a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

literature

In 2004 her autobiography Baisers envolés was published by "Éditions Milan" (224 pages).

The love affair between François Truffaut and Claude Jade is described in the Truffaut biography by Antoine de Baeque and Serge Toubiana, published by vgs-Verlag in Germany in 1999.

Elisabeth Gouslan's 2016 book Truffaut et les femmes is dedicated to Truffaut's relationships with his wife Madeleine, Jeanne Moreau , Françoise Dorléac , Claude Jade, Catherine Deneuve and Fanny Ardant .

In 2019 Ludovic Mabreuil's "La Cinematique des muses" will be published, in which the author portrays twenty film muses on 215 pages, including Geneviève Bujold , Mimsy Farmer , Claude Jade, Elsa Martinelli , Ottavia Piccolo , Marie-France Pisier , Édith Scob , Maria Schneider , Joanna Shimkus and Catherine Spaak .

Claude Jade contributed to other books, such as Hitchcock by Bruno Villien and Frenchie goes to Hollywood by Henri Veyrier.

Death and farewell

Claude Jade suffered from retinoblastoma , a malignant tumor in the eye. She played the Célimène in Célimène et le cardinal 2006 with a prosthesis. The cancer also affected her liver. Claude Jade, who was supposed to make a new film in the spring of 2007, the actress about whom Julien Donada started a portrait with her participation and who wanted to continue playing her Célimène , died in the Ambroise-Paré de Boulogne-Billancourt Hospital.

The funeral service was held on December 5th in the Oratoire du Louvre Reformed Church. Culture minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres described her in an obituary as " the incarnation of the charm and elegance of France, which in this" fichu métier "is a role model for generations of actresses ". Véronique Cayla , chairwoman of the “ Center national de la cinématographie ”, praised her as a “ shining light of French cinema with a clarity in her craft ”, and Jacques Rampal said goodbye with the words: “ She only ever thought of the others in this field Elbow. She ended her life on stage, it ended in beauty, she gave a remarkable performance, it was August 8th, it was just yesterday. "

The newspaper Neues Deutschland wrote: “If you look again at photos of Claude Jade, Truffaut's companion from the pioneer of the formal experiment to the romantic narrator, then a wonderful time comes to mind that is forever over. You wanted to go to Paris and just went to the cinema. To be friends with the unattainable of a longing, that was the wonderful experience. "

The Cinémathèque française paid homage to Claude Jade from April 19 to 26, 2007.

In 2013 a street in Dijon was named after her: the Allée Claude Jade in 21000 Dijon.

Filmography (selection)

Theater (selection)

Further appearances

  • 1970: Dim, Dam, Dom (TV) presenter
  • 1970: Gala de l'union (German gala premiere ) Participants with magic trick (with Michel Piccoli and Marion Game)
  • 1975: La clef des chants (TV) presenter

Web links

Commons : Claude Jade  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claude Jade: meringues envolés. Editions Milan, 2004
  2. ^ Antoine de Baecque, Serge Toubiana: Truffaut , vgs-Verlag 1999
  3. ^ Rolf-Ruediger Hamacher: Obituary, in film-dienst 1/2007, p. 18
  4. ↑ https://www.grasset.fr/truffaut-et-les-femmes-9782246852421
  5. ↑ https://www.pgderoux.fr/fr/Livres-Parus/Cinematique-des-muses/359.htm
  6. ^ Ici Paris , Report Claude Jade (on the funeral service) , N ° 3206, December 2006, pp. 52/53
  7. ↑ cinematheque.fr  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.cinematheque.fr  
personal data
SURNAME Jade, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Dijon , France
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 2006
Place of death Paris , France