Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others: Elizabeth Browning Donner, daughter of Pennsylvania Steel Co. Chairman William Henry Donner, 1932-33; Ruth Josephine Googins of Fort Worth, 1933-44; Actress Faye Emerson, 1944-50; and California Oil Heiress Minnewa Bell Ross...
...other girl in Viva Maria!, the movie that had brought Brigitte Bardot to Mexico five days earlier. Brigitte's arrival had been the real wild-eyed thing-riot police with tear-gas pistols, screams, a fight, grown men fainting. But Moreau is not the kind of actress who requires a motorcycle escort. Indeed, she hardly looks like an actress at all-too small, too thin, too true. "Beautiful?" she says. "Of course not. That's the whole point about...
...tiny, Japanese hands . . ."), and film directors all over the world have to struggle to praise her enough. "She can be elemental or elegant, warm or astringent-in fact, anything she chooses," says Orson Welles. England's Tony Richardson calls her "more informed, committed and passionate" than any actress he knows: "She is totally involved in the seriousness and importance of movies as distinct from the money and glamour." India's Satyajit Ray (the Apu trilogy) and Hollywood's Carl Foreman (The Victors) both say she is peerless in films today. And François Truffaut, whose Jules...
Moreau, in a word, is it. There is no actress in Hollywood or Europe who can match the depth and breadth of her art. There is no personality in films so able to withstand the long, lingering look of the modern movie camera, no one whose simple presence on the screen evokes such a variety of moods. Her love scenes are among the most intense ever filmed, her suffering agonizingly acute. She is an actress of infinite complexity and conviction, and the only thing wrong with calling her the modern Garbo is that she is so much better an actress...
...effect on me," she recalls. "It was the first time I had ever seen actors, ever seen a real play, and I was overwhelmed." Jeanne eventually confided her fascination to her mother, who complained to a neighbor: "I have a problem with my daughter. She wants to become an actress." The neighbor, an actor himself, prescribed a drama teacher, who carefully prepared her for an audition at the Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique. She was accepted without hesitation. A year later she made her debut at the Comédie Française in Turgenev's A Month...