Capucine

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Capucine

Date of Birth:

6 January 1928, Saint-Raphaël, Var, France more

Date of Death:

17 March 1990, Lausanne, Switzerland

from IMDB.com

Birth Name

Germaine Lefebvre

Nickname

Cap

Cappy

Height

5' 7" (1.70 m)

Mini Biography

With classic patrician features and an independent, non-conformist personality, Capucine began her film debut in 1949 at the age of 21 with an appearance in the film Rendez-vous de juillet (1949). She attended school in France and received a BA degree in foreign languages. Married for six months in her early twenties, she never remarried. In 1957, she was discovered by director Charles K. Feldman while working as a high-fashion model for Givenchy in Paris and was brought to Hollywood to study acting under Gregory Ratoff. She was put under contract by Columbia studios in 1958 and had her first leading part in the movie Song Without End (1960). She made six more major movies in the early to mid 1960s, two of which (The Lion (1962) and The 7th Dawn (1964)) starred William Holden, with whom she had a two-year affair. Moving from Hollywood to a penthouse apartment in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1962, she continued making movies, mostly in Europe, until her suicide in 1990.

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Filmography

# Fellini - Satyricon (1969) .... Trifena

... aka Fellini Satyricon (UK) (USA)

... aka Satyricon (France) (International: English title: short title)

... aka The Degenerates

# Las crueles (1969) .... Lucia Fonte

... aka The Exquisite Cadaver (USA: new title)

# Fräulein Doktor (1969) .... Dr. Saforet

... aka Fraulein Doktor (USA)

... aka Gospodjica Doktor - Spijunka bez imena (Yugoslavia: Serbian title)

... aka The Betrayal

# The Honey Pot (1967) .... Princess Dominique

... aka It Comes Up Murder

... aka Mr. Fox of Venice

... aka The Honeypot (USA)

# Le Fate (1966) .... Marta (segment "Fata Marta")

... aka Les ogresses (France)

... aka Sex Quartet (UK)

... aka The Queens (USA)

# What's New Pussycat (1965) .... Renée

... aka Quoi de neuf, Pussycat? (France)

# The 7th Dawn (1964) .... Dhana Mercier

# The Pink Panther (1963) .... Simone Clouseau

# I dongiovanni della Costa Azzurra (1962)

... aka Beach Casanova (USA)

# The Lion (1962) .... Christine

# Walk on the Wild Side (1962) .... Hallie Gerard

# Le triomphe de Michel Strogoff (1961) .... Tatoa, a Volskaya

... aka Il trionfo di Michele Strogoff (Italy)

... aka The Triumph of Michael Strogoff

# North to Alaska (1960) .... Michelle 'Angel' Bonet

# Song Without End (1960) .... Princess Carolyne Wittgenstein

... aka Crescendo

# Frou-Frou (1955) .... Une amie d'Arthus, le peintre

... aka The Toy Wife

# Mademoiselle de Paris (1955)

... aka Mademoiselle from Paris (USA)

# Bertrand coeur de lion (1951) .... La baronne

... aka Bernard and the Lion (International: English title)

# Mon ami Sainfoin (1950)

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filmography, continued

# "Blaues Blut" (1990) TV series .... Gräfin von Altenberg (unknown episodes)

... aka "Blue Blood" (UK)

... aka "Scandalous"

# I miei primi quarant'anni (1989) .... Principessa Caracciolo

... aka Mes quarante premières années (France)

... aka My First Forty Years

... aka My Wonderful Life

# Una verità come un'altra (1989) (TV)

# Blue Blood (1988) (TV) .... Gräfin

... aka Scandalous (USA: video title)

# Le foto di Gioia (1987) .... Flora

... aka Delirium

... aka Delirium: Photo of Gioia (USA: DVD box title)

... aka Gioia's Photograph

... aka Photo of Gioia

... aka Photos of Joy

# "Il giudice istruttore" (1987) TV series (unknown episodes)

... aka "Coupable ou innocent" (France: rerun title)

... aka "Coupable ou non coupable" (France)

# "Madame et ses flics" (1 episode, 1986)

- La robe qui tue (1986) TV episode

# "Sins" (1986) TV mini-series .... Odile

# "Voglia di cantare" (1985) TV mini-series

# "Murder, She Wrote" .... Belle Chaney (1 episode, 1985)

- Paint Me a Murder (1985) TV episode .... Belle Chaney

# "Série noire" .... La veuve Castagner (1 episode, 1984)

- Noces de soufre (1984) TV episode .... La veuve Castagner

# Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) .... Lady Simone Litton

# Balles perdues (1983) .... Madam Teufminn

... aka Stray Bullets

# Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) .... Lady Simone Litton

# Aphrodite (1982) .... Lady Suzanne Stanford

... aka Aphrodite - Im Wendekreis der Begierde (West Germany)

# Les invités (1982) (TV) .... Blanche Dubourg

# "Hart to Hart" .... Lily Von Borg (1 episode, 1982)

- Hart of Diamonds (1982) TV episode .... Lily Von Borg

# "Orient-Express" (1979) TV mini-series .... Diana (segment "Antonella")

# "Martin Eden" (1979) TV mini-series .... Mrs. Morse

# Jaguar Lives! (1979) .... Zina Vanacore

... aka El felino (Spain)

# Arabian Adventure (1979) .... Vahishta

# Contro 4 bandiere (1979) .... Nicole Levine

... aka De Dunkerke a la victoria (Spain)

... aka De Dunquerque à la victoire (France)

... aka De l'enfer à la victoire (France)

... aka From Hell to Victory (USA)

# Giallo napoletano (1978) .... Sister Angela

... aka Atrocious Tales of Love and Revenge

... aka Neapolitan Mystery (International: English title)

... aka Neapolitan Thriller

# Ritratto di borghesia in nero (1977) .... Amalia Mazzarini

... aka Nest of Vipers

... aka Portrait of a Bourgeois in Black

# Ecco noi per esempio... (1977)

# "La pêche miraculeuse" (1976) TV mini-series .... Mlle du Colombier

# Bluff storia di truffe e di imbroglioni (1976) .... Belle Duke

... aka The Switch (Philippines: English title) (USA: video title)

... aka Il grande bluff

... aka The Con Artists (USA)

... aka The Con Man

# Per amore (1976) .... Marina Reggiani, Alberto's wife

... aka For Love

# L'incorrigible (1975) .... Hélène

... aka Der Unverbesserliche

... aka Incorrigible (USA)

... aka The Incorrigible

# Ne pas déranger (1975) (TV)

# "Search" .... Silvana Tristano (1 episode, 1972)

- The Murrow Disappearance (1972) TV episode .... Silvana Tristano

# Soleil rouge (1971) .... Pepita

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1958

The elegant and sophisticated actress was a high fashion model for Givenchy when she was discovered by

director Charles Feldman in 1957.

Germaine Lefebvre (Capucine) was born on January 6, 1933 in Toulon, France. There, she earned a BA

degree in foreign languages.

It was as a model that she became known as "Capucine" (pronounced Cap-oo-seen), which is French for

Nasturtium.

She received her first leading role in "Song Without End" (1960), and went on to make many more films

including "The Pink Panther" (1963), and "Walk On the Wild Side" (1962).

http://www.elliottinternet.com/hollywoodblvd/capucine.htm

Film director Howard Hawks (1896 - 1977) and his wife Dee spend a summer day by the pool in Monaco with producer Charles K Feldman (1904 - 1968) and Feldman's protegee Germaine Lefebvre, aka French actress Capucine (1933 - 1990). (Shot in 1957)_{~~thanks to cutxpaste on tfs}

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1958

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with her boyfriends...William Holden

and Dirk Borgard

thanks to LucyintheSky from TFS

[Fialka]

Gorgeous!!!!! Thanks for the thread Korravai!

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you're welcome, Fialka!! Glad you like her

scans from LucyInTheSky

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screencaps from redhearts, from Marvystonefrom Lucyinthesky

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from her films:

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french Cinemonde

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El dia Magazine, Uruguay

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french Elle

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O Seculo Ilustrado, Portugal

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italian Vogue

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DAY!!!!! you are amazing!!!!!

[Twinkle]

She's lovely, never heard of her until now

[Dayrell]

DAY!!!!! you are amazing!!!!!

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Did you know Capucine was a great model in the 50´s?