Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Birthday Girl: Gallic Glamour

Glamourous French beauty, model, and actress Capucine would have been a mere eighty today, had fate been kinder.

If her American career never quite equaled the amount of publicity it received, she was nonetheless something more than merely decorative in a number of pictures, not least as madam Barbara Stanwyck's Number One Girl in Walk on the Wild Side.

Like so many lovely ladies, she was a Troubled Girl; I hope we all will judge her gently, and remember a time when it was expected that stars would be elegant, distant, cool, and often foreign.

4 comments:

  1. she looks so much like Anouk Aimee, I'd almost mistake one for the other.

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  2. How funny - I thought the same thing - I had to go and compare photos, as I couldn't remember which one starred in Justine....

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  3. Love her! And I do judge her gently.

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  4. loved her in ,"the pink panther."what a talent...

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