Pascale Petit

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Pascale Petit (born February 27, 1938 in Paris ; born Anne-Marie Petit ) is a French actress .

Life

Petit worked as a manicure in the Paris celebrity hairdressing salon of the Carita sisters and attended the art school École des arts décoratifs. The petite, 1.57 meter tall and only 44 kilo brunette was discovered by the actor and director Raymond Rouleau, who gave her a role in The Witches of Salem (a film adaptation of Arthur Miller's drama Witch Hunt ) in 1956 .

Marcel Carné gave her the lead role in the 1958 film The Deceit themselves , which made her famous. She played a rebellious youngster in it and received the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as a young talent. Several similar films followed with her as the leading actress, in which she embodied beautiful, unpredictable seductresses. The media at the time often compared her to Brigitte Bardot .

As early as 1960, when she followed her husband, the actor Gianni Esposito, to Italy, she was gradually losing popularity. In addition to westerns and action films, she also appeared in German and Austrian productions such as Franz Antel's erotic comedy Die Wirtin von der Lahn in the 1960s . In 1969 she divorced Esposito, the father of her daughter Douchka, who later also tried her hand as an actress.

At the beginning of the 1970s, Petit returned to Paris and tried to make a comeback as a character actress, but could no longer build on the earlier successes.

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personal data
SURNAME Petit, Pascale
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petit, Anne-Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris