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Simone Simon (real name: Simone Thérèse Fernande Simon) (April 23, 1910, Marseille, France - February 22, 2005, Paris, France) was a French film actress who began her film career in 1931.
She quickly established herself as one of the country's most successful film actresses. After seeing her in the 1934 film Lac Aux Dames (USA title: Ladies' Lake), Darryl F. Zanuck brought her to Hollywood in 1936 with a widespread publicity campaign.
However her films for 20th Century Fox were only moderately successful, and Simon returned, dissatisfied, to France. There she appeared in the film La Bête Humaine (The Human Beast) in 1938.
With the outbreak of World War II she returned to Hollywood and RKO Studios where she achieved her greatest successes in English language cinema with The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), and the horror films Cat People (1942) and The Curse of the Cat People (1944).
These films, however, did not lead to greater success and she languished in mediocre films until the end of the war.
She returned to France to act, and appeared in La Ronde (1950). Her film roles were few after this and she made her final film appearance in 1973.
She died in Paris, France on 22 February, 2005, aged 94 from natural causes. The BBC mistakenly reported her age as 93, by using the wrong year of birth (1911).
She never married but had numerous intimate relationships with fellow actors or musicians, among others. Her maid revealed that she gave a gold key to her boudoir to any man she was interested in, including George Gershwin.
Filmography
- La Femme en bleu (1973) - Madam
- The Extra Day (1956) - Michele Blanchard
- Das Zweite Leben (1954) - Françoise Dunoyer
- I Tre ladri (1954)
- Le Plaisir (1952) - Joséphine (segment "Le Modèle")
- Olivia (aka The Pit of Loneliness) (1951)
- La Ronde (Roundabout) (1950) - Marie, the Housemaid
- Donne senza nome (1949) - Yvonne Dubois
- Temptation Harbour (1947) - Camelia
- Pétrus (1946) .... Migo
- Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More (1944) - Kathie
- The Curse of the Cat People (1944) - Irena Reed, Oliver's dead wife
- Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) - A Little Laundress
- Tahiti Honey (1943) - Suzette 'Susie" Durand
- Cat People (1942) - Irena Dubrovna Reed
- The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) - Belle/Bella Dee
- Cavalcade d'amour (1940) - Juliette
- La Bête humaine (1938) - Séverine Roubaud
- Josette (1938) - Renee LeBlanc
- Love and Hisses (1937) - Yvett Guerin
- Seventh Heaven (1937) - Diane the Hooker
- Ladies in Love (1936) - Marie Armand
- Girls' Dormitory (1936) - Marie Claudel
- Under Two Flags (1936) (scenes deleted) - Cigarette
- Les Yeux noirs (1935) - Tania
- Les Beaux jours (1935) - Sylvie
- Lac aux dames (1934)
- Le Voleur (1934)
- L'Étoile de Valencia (1933)
- Tire au flanc (1933)
- La Petite chocolatière (1932) - Julie
- Pour vivre heureux (1932)
- Prenez garde à la peinture (1932)
- Le Roi des palaces (1932) - Victoire
- Un fils d'Amérique (1932)
- Le Chanteur inconnu (1931) - Pierette
- Durand contre Durand (1931) - Eliane
- Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931)
- On opère sans douleur (1931)
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