Word: signoret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miller's treatment of Marilyn Monroe again raises the subject of critical indignation. For some reason, we can respect beauty in a foreign film, but not in an American one. We can regard the simple beauty and fine body of Simone Signoret, for example, with a clean admiration. But that's not what America looks for in Marilyn Monroe. We want something dirty and cheap, something that can be admired in an ugly way. We don't want to see fine breasts but tremendous tits. A national joke has been made of Miss Monroe's aspirations as a serious actress...
...made Let's Make Love early this year, and gossip columns began to pant with rumors of a Monroe affair with Co-Star Yves Montand. Purring that he was "amazed and flattered," and full of assurance that he would never toss his eleven-year marriage to Actress Simone Signoret "overboard for one performance," Montand did make one Gallically candid revelation: "Marilyn is a simple girl, without any guile," he said. "I once thought she was sophisticated, like some of the other ladies I have known. Had Marilyn been sophisticated, none of this ever would have happened...
...Never hesitant about suspending magazines and newspapers that go too far in criticizing his Algerian policies, De Gaulle was even tougher last week on 142 writers, teachers, film stars and journalists (ranging from Leftist Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre to Academy Award-winning Actress Simone Signoret), who signed a petition urging French soldiers to desert rather than take up arms against the Algerian rebels. Le Grand Charles decreed punishment rare in any country calling itself a democracy. Government employees who signed or support the petition, such as teachers, face suspension at one-third pay; actors and directors were forbidden employment...
General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Oscar Winner Simone Signoret makes her first appearance in a dramatic TV show-as a widow bent on murder to avenge her husband's death...
...Here in Hollywood," says Simone Signoret, "there is a tendency to think this place is the world. Sometimes I think people should get out of here." But not this week. This week, thanks to her performance in a brilliant English movie, Room at the Top (TIME, April 20, 1959), the visitor from France owns the town. Most of the smart money is backing her for an Oscar when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gives its award for the year's best actress. Whether she wins or not, hers is certainly the only new face...