The singer and French actress Marie Laforêt died in Genolier, Switzerland. This was announced by the family, without specifying the causes. He had turned 80 years old in October. Known as “the girl from the eyes of gold’, in the Sixties he starred in 35 films and has sold more than 35 million albums in his career. In 1978 it was withdrawn from the scene, and has settled in Switzerland, devoting himself to his art gallery.
Marie Laforêt, “the girl from the gold eye” of the French cinema
Born as Maïténa Doumenach in Soulac-sur-Mer on October 5, 1939, at the age of 58-year-old confessed: “I was raped by a neighbor when I was three years old. That fact has marked the whole of my life.” Marie Laforêt has debuted for the event, racing in replacement of her sister, who had renounced at the last moment, in a competition for young talents organized in 1959 by radio station Europe 1. The director Louis Malle hired for Liberté, a film that was not then realized, and so his first film appearance was in the movie Crime in the sun, directed in 1960 by René Clément .
It was her first husband, the film director Jean-Gabriel Albicocco , just married, in 1961, to launch Marie Laforêt as an actress with the film The girl from the eyes of gold, based on a story by Honoré de Balzac. The name has remained as label for the young actress, who in the meantime has also started a career as a singer and recorded a 45 single in 1964 titled The singer from the eyes of gold that has achieved a huge success, both in France and in Europe. And for a certain period with its charm, has competed to gain with Brigitte Bardot.
With The harvest of love, written by Daniel Gérard, author of dozens of fortunate successes of the period yéyé, Laforêt is also entered in the Italian charts. Between 1964 and 1968, among its achievements there are the songs That hurt is there, And if someone will fall in love with me (The playa), A scarf of blue silk, Wedding campaign, and Manchester and Liverpool. Watch where you go and Warm the life, were the last hits in Italian.
her film career has seen her acting among the many films in The night of sin (1962), The devil in the guise (1963), Charade French (1964), Hunt, male (1964), Hit it big in Paris (1965), The soldiers (1965), directed by Valerio Zurlini , The gang of diamonds (1967), There was a time tom Thumb (1972), Cop or rogue (1979).
After a long period of absence from the screens, the actress was dedicated again to the acting (in Italy appeared in the tv series La Piovra 3) and, in particular, to the theatre. At the cinema, he starred in the films “The miser” (1990) Tonino Cervi with Alberto Sordi , the Alleged violent (1990) Georges Lautner , A cold morning in may (1990) Vittorio Sindoni , All of the men in Sara (1992) Gianpaolo Tescari . He also starred in the night (1994), tv miniseries directed by Nanni Loy .
was married five times. After her divorce from director Jean-Gabriel Albicocco , was united in marriage with Judas Azuelos , then with Alain Kahn-Sriber , followed with Pierre Meyer , and finally in 1990 with Eric De Lavandeyra . He had three children, including actress Lisa Azuelos.
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