Etchika Choureau
Etchika Choureau , born Jeannine Pauline Verret (born November 12, 1929 in Paris ) is a French film actress who has been inactive since the mid-1960s and a semi-star in the 1950s.
Live and act
Jeannine Pauline Verret was born in the Belleville district of Paris. Immediately after the war she trained in medical massage and then worked briefly as a masseuse, nurse and in the beauty sector (makeup, manicure and the like). Just 18 years old, she married the four years older beekeeper son Max Choureau on January 29, 1948 and opened a honey business with him in Paris. At this time, Jeannine Verret was more interested in acting than selling bee products and took acting lessons at Cours Simon , a renowned Parisian drama school. She won a competition there and was then recommended to the Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni by the experienced professional colleague Alain Cuny in 1952 . He gave the up-and-coming artist, henceforth called Etchika Choureau, the central role of Simone in the disturbing contemporary drama Children of Our Time .
In the following year, she brought her first purely French-language film to the side of the Hollywood acting veteran Erich von Stroheim . In the same year 1953, Choureau received the prestigious Prix Suzanne-Bianchetti young talent for her dual role in Kinder der Liebe , a contemporary drama about unmarried young mothers. Another year later she played Mary-Lou in Mary-Lou and her gentlemen and was, also in 1954, brought to Munich for the role of law student Madeleine Schubarth in the love story A Girl from Paris . In 1957 Etchika Choureau received an offer from Hollywood to take on the female lead in the last two productions by veteran director William A. Wellman . Neither of these two poorly discussed World War II flicks has been a commercial or critical hit. When Etchika Choureau returned to France, her short screen career was de facto over, and in the same year 1957 she only made headlines with an affair with the Moroccan Crown Prince, who later became King Hassan II .
Her return to the film camera from 1962 to 1965 earned her only one main role and two little-noticed supporting roles, so that Etchika Choureau retired from film acting as early as 1965. Since another marriage, this time to an auctioneer, she has hardly been seen in public.
Filmography (complete)
- 1952: Children of Our Time ( I vinti )
- 1953: L'Envers du paradis
- 1953: Children of Love (Les Enfants de l'amour)
- 1954: Les intrigantes
- 1954: Mary-Lou and her masters (Escalier de service)
- 1954: A girl from Paris
- 1955: Summer fruits / Not all can be angels! (Les Fruits de l'été)
- 1955: L'Impossible Monsieur Pipelet
- 1956: Hunted Innocence (La Foire aux femmes)
- 1956: Toute la ville accuse
- 1956: Les Lumières du soir
- 1956: Sulle strade di notte (TV movie)
- 1957: Responsabilité limitée
- 1957: Overrun by tanks ( Darby's Rangers )
- 1957: Lafayette Escadrille
- 1962: Prostitution (La Prostitution)
- 1964: Angélique (Angélique, marquise des Anges)
- 1965: Paris in August (Paris au mois d'août)
literature
- Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon, first volume, Bad Münder 1960, p. 237
Individual evidence
Web links
- Biography on lesgensducinema.com
- Short biography glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com
- Etchika Choureau in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Etchika Choureau at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Choureau, Etchika |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Verret, Jeannine Pauline (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French film actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |