Mylène Demongeot

Mylène Demongeot

Mylène Demongeot , actually Marie-Hélène Demongeot (born September 29, 1935 in Nice ), is a French actress.

biography

Marie-Hélène Demongeot, the daughter of a Ukrainian, moved with her parents to Paris at the age of 13, where she dropped out of the renowned drama school Cours Simon and took lessons from the actress Marie Ventura . She made her film debut with Léonide Moguy's drama Children of Love (1953) and at the same time graced the covers of various European magazines as a model due to her relationship with the photographer Henri Coste. The breakthrough came from the Belgian film director Raymond Rouleau (born June 14, 1904 - December 1, 1981), who she wrote alongside Simone Signoret and Yves Montand in 1957 for his feature film Die Hexen von Salem (France-GDR joint production), an adaptation of Jean- Paul Sartres, based on Arthur Miller's drama Witch Hunt . The role of Abigail made her known worldwide and brought her a nomination as best young actress for the British Academy Film Award in 1958 and, together with film partner Simone Signoret, the actor's award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival .

After this success she became a sex symbol of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s with international roles. Demongeot was seen as the seductress of David Niven in the Françoise Sagan film Bonjour Tristesse (1958) and played the unscrupulous Lady de Winter alongside Gérard Barray in a two-part play about The Three Musketeers (1961). In the same year she also shot the adventure film The Rape of the Sabine Women with Roger Moore and Jean Marais . Her role as photographer Hélène in the Fantomas trilogy with Jean Marais and Louis de Funès earned her enormous popularity . In the mid-1980s, after Bertrand Blier's comedy Abendanzug (1986), the 1.65-meter-tall actress's career seemed to be stagnating. She now worked mostly for Italian television, where she appeared in Stefano's Big Man series "Steno" Vanzina alongside Bud Spencer . Only in 1994 she returned with Liliane de Kermadec's feature film La Piste du télégraphe back to French cinema by acting as Jelena Safonova slipped into the role of the Russian immigrant Lisa Alling, which alone the trip home from the United States over the in 1928 from financial difficulties Bering Strait took .

From 1958 to 1968 Demongeot was married to the Parisian photographer Henri Coste, and from 1968 until his death to the French director and screenwriter Marc Simenon (1939–1999), the son of the famous crime writer Georges Simenon . The couple founded the film production company Kangourou , which in the 1970s launched the joint film projects L'explosion (1971), J'ai mon voyage! (1973), The Ruthless One (1974) or Dennis Berry's The Great Ecstasy (1975). In 2001 Demongeot published her autobiography under the title Tiroirs secrets ( Eng .: drawer secrets) .

Most recently, the actress, who has appeared in over 80 film and television productions, starred alongside Gérard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil in the crime film 36 - Deadly Rivals , for which she was nominated in 2005 for the prestigious French film award César . A year later, on July 14, 2006, Demongeot was appointed Commandeur des arts et des lettres by the French Minister of Culture . In 2007 she received another César nomination for her supporting role as Katia in Jacques Fieschi's literary adaptation La Californie with Nathalie Baye .

Filmography (selection)

Mylène Demongeot

• 1957: The Witches of Salem (Les Sorcières de Salem)
• 1957: Intoxicated by the senses (Une Manche et la belle)
• 1958: Bonjour tristesse
• 1958: Be beautiful and shut up (Sois belle et tais-toi)
• 1958: The night and its price (Cette nuit-là)
• 1959: The storm breaks out (Le vent se lève)
• 1959: Sometimes this - sometimes that (Faibles femmes)
• 1959: The Battle of Marathon (La Battaglia di Maratona)
• 1959: Upstairs - Downstairs (Upstairs and Downstairs)
• 1959: We from the street (La notte brava)
• 1960: Under ten flags (Sotto dieci bandiere)
• 1960: Love nights in Rome (Un amore a Roma)
• 1961: Summer of the Cursed (The Singer Not the Song)
• 1961: The three musketeers
• 1961: The Rape of the Sabine Women (Il ratto delle Sabine)
• 1962: The gold of the Caesars (Oro per i cesari)
• 1963: Everything because of these women (À cause, à cause d'une femme)
• 1964: gangsters, gold and brisk girls (L'Appartement des filles)
• 1964: Fantomas (Fantômas)
• 1964: Uncle Tom's hut
• 1965: OSS 117 - Bahia powder keg (Furia à Bahia pour OSS 117)
• 1965: Fantomas versus Interpol (Fantômas se déchaîne)
• 1966: Bel Ami 2000 or How do you seduce a playboy
• 1966: Beloved Scoundrel (Tendre voyou)
• 1967: Fantomas threatens the world (Fantômas contre Scotland Yard)
• 1968: Where, please, is there beer at the front? (The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell)
• 1969: Twelve plus one (Una su 13)
• 1970: Mushroom poison (L'assassin frappe à l'aube)
• 1972: The Rebels (Quelques arpents de neige)
• 1974: The Ruthless One (Par le sang des autres)
• 1975: Dangerous life is better (Il faut vivre dangereusement)
• 1983: Shock policemen or blood on the asphalt (Flics de choc)
• 1984: I have the honor (Série noire: J'ai bien l'honneur , TV)
• 1984: Princess and the Photographer
• 1986: Evening suit (Tenue de soirée)
• 1988: Jack Clementi - The Great Coup (Big Man - 395 Dollari l'oncia , TV)
• 1989: Jack Clementi - The Clan of Counterfeiters (Big Man - La fanciulla che ride , TV)
• 1989: Jack Clementi - Rays of Death (Big Man - Boomerang , TV)
• 1989: Jack Clementi - In the network of the drug mafia (Big Man - Polizza droga , TV)
• 1992: Holidays in Purgatory (Vacances au purgatoire , TV)
• 2004: Nocturnal odyssey (Feux rouges)
• 2004: 36 - Deadly Rivals (36 Quai des Orfèvres)
• 2006: Camping
• 2006: La Californie
• 2010: Camping 2
• 2013: Madame is recommended (Elle s'en va)
• 2016: Camping 3
• 2017: A kiss from Béatrice (Sage femme)

Awards

César

• 2005: Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for 36 Deadly Rivals
• 2007 : Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for La Californie

Further

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

• 1957: Best Actress for The Witches of Salem

British Academy Film Award

• 1958: Nominated for Best Young Actress for The Witches of Salem

literature

• Demongeot, Mylène: Tiroirs secrets . Paris, Pocket, 2003. ISBN 2-266-13666-6

Web links

Commons : Mylène Demongeot  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mylène Demongeot in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography and photo gallery at cinema.aliceadsl.fr (French)