Simone Signoret (Simone Signoret): filmography and the personal life of the actress (photo)

Simone Signoret (full name of Simon-Henrietta-Charlotte Kamincker), French actress of theater and cinema, was born on March 25, 1921 in the German city of Wiesbaden. She grew up in Paris, where she received a good education. At the beginning of the fascist occupation, she joined a vagrant troupe of artists, and from that time her life was inextricably linked with art.

First roles

After the end of World War II, Simone Signoret, already married to the director Yves Allegre, played her first significant role in the film "Daemons of the Dawn" in the production of her husband. Prior to this film, the actress participated in low-budget films. A notable actor's achievement of Simone Signoret can be considered her role in the film directed by Max Ofyulsa "Carousel", where she played the main character, cheerful prostitute Leocadia. In the center of the story are several characters from different backgrounds, a married lady and her husband, a servant and her son, a soldier, a sophisticated lady of easy virtue, an inexperienced girl, an actress and a poet. All these people are caught up in a whirlwind of a kind dance, each character alternately falls in love with the previous partner, after parting with him, the feelings go to the next, and so on ad infinitum.

"The Golden Helmet"

In 1952, Simone Signoret, photo Which already began to appear in European newspapers, played another prostitute (Marie) in the gangster film "Golden Helmet" directed by Jacques Becker. This was another main role of the actress. Marie, nicknamed for the magnificent pile of golden hair on her head, lives quietly in Joanville and meets her friend Roland, when the leader of the gang Felix Leka and several of his accomplices come to the city. Then in the dance club appears a former member of the gang Georges Mande, who took the path of correction and does not participate more in criminal activities. Between him and Marie, mutual love flashes, quickly passing into a destructive passion that destroys everything around.

Thrillers

The main role in the film "The Devil" directed by Henri-Georges Clouseau, filmed in 1955, secured for Simone Siniora reputation as an actress who works in the genre of a thriller. She played the brutal and prudent mistress of the school's director Michel Delasal, the husband of Cristina Delasal, the legal owner of the school. Nicole - that was the name of the director's concubine - had conspired with him and had devised a monstrous plan, according to which he had to die, allegedly at the hands of his wife. The dead man then resurrected in front of the shocked Christina, and she immediately died of a heart rupture. The goal was achieved, the school and other property, owned by Delasal, inherited the treacherous husband. However, the story did not end there.

The first "Oscar"

In 1959, one of the film studios in the UK filmed the film "The Way Up" directed by Jack Clayton, in which Simone Signoret played the main character, a beautiful middle-aged lady named Alice Eisjil. For this role, the actress received several prestigious awards, the main one being Oscar. This prize was awarded to Simone for the best female role. The picture tells of several human fates, which in the course of the story are intertwined in the most bizarre way, pleasing some participants and giving grief to others. Alice at the end of the film dies in a car accident, and her death becomes the natural ending of this intricate story.

The main roles of the actress

The film "Famous love stories" staged in 1961 by the director Michel Boiron, consists of four novels telling about the life of the highest nobility of France. Simone Signoret played the main role in the second novel, where her character, the noble Parisian Jenny de LaCourt, decided on a crime to keep her young lover from marrying another woman. She bribed an elderly pharmacist, and he splashed sulfuric acid in the young man's face. Lakur did not achieve her old goal, only provoked suspicions of Commissioner Masso, who started the investigation of the crime. And when the fault of Jenny became obvious, she tried to escape and died under the wheels of a horse-drawn carriage.

The next film with Simone Signoret in the title role, "Ship of Fools", was directed by Stanley Kramer in 1965. On the ocean liner , several hundred people gathered to get to the German city of Bremerhaven. The character of Simone Signoret is a Spanish countess, who is addicted to drug addiction, and she faces imprisonment. She is in love with the ship's doctor Wilhelm Schumann. The elderly doctor understands that this love is the last, he has a sick heart and his days are numbered. The mutual love of two elderly people gives them both the last joy in life. Soon the liner arrives at the port, the countess is arrested by the police, and she forever leaves Wilhelm. The doctor returns to his cabin, and a few minutes later his heart stops.

Simone Signoret, whose filmography contains about 50 paintings, is one of the brightest stars of French cinema.

Personal life

The personal life of the actress Simone Signoret is not famous for the violent novels on the set. The actress twice married, her first husband was director Yves Allegre. The couple lived together from 1944 to 1949, on April 16, 1946, they had a daughter, Catherine, who later became an actress.

In August 1949, on the terrace of the restaurant "Golden Dove" in Nice met the famous actress Simona Signore and rising star of the music hall Yves Montand. A few days later Simon, having returned home, shared with her husband impressions about his meeting with Montan. Both became clear that this is the end of their marriage. They decided to wait with a divorce, so as not to injure the three-year-old Catherine.

Simone left for Yves Montana later, and in December 1951 they were married. Simone would like to be constantly with her beloved husband, she even began to refuse roles in the cinema. And after a while, Yves Montand and Simona Signoret began to be friends with families with the married couple Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe. They spent weekends together, traveled. Eventually, a romance began between Marilyn and Montan. This was a difficult test for Simone, but she tried not to show her mind. One day the actress said during the next interview: "Do you know at least one man who could resist Marilyn?"

Yves Montand soon returned, although in fact he did not leave. The couple lived together until the death of the actress in September 1985. Simona Signoret, whose cause of death is an oncological disease, is buried in the Paris cemetery of Pere Lachaise.