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You are here: Home / CELEBRITY CHOWS / MARTINE CAROL – 1940’S – 1950’s French Actress and her chow

MARTINE CAROL – 1940’S – 1950’s French Actress and her chow

martine-carol-french-actress-1950s-5548This beautiful photo is an original in my personal collection in an 8×10 format.  On the back is a French candy advertisement…..a first I have seen of its kind…especially for such a large photo on real photographic paper!  I also have a digital copy  of this same image on a postcard in the archive donated by Love Banghart.

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Born Maryse Mourer (or Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer) in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, (France), she studied acting under René Simon (1898–1966), making her stage début in 1940 and her first motion picture in 1943. One of the most beautiful women in film, she was frequently cast as an elegant blonde seductress.

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SOURCE: During the late 1940s and early 1950s she was the leading sex symbol and a top box office draw of French cinema, and was considered a French version of America’s Marilyn Monroe. One of her most famous roles was as the title character in Lola Montès (1955), directed by Max Ophüls, in a role which necessitated dark hair. However, by the late-1950s, roles for Carol had become fewer, due to the introduction of newcomer Brigitte Bardot.

Despite her fame and fortune, Martine Carol’s personal life was filled with turmoil that included a suicide attempt and drug abuse, and four marriages. She was also kidnapped by gangster Pierre Loutrel (also known as Pierrot le Fou or Crazy Pete), albeit briefly and received roses the next day as an apology.

She died unexpectedly of a heart attack in a Monte Carlo hotel room at the age of forty-six, during the shooting of the film Hell is Empty (1967).

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Comments

  1. alphabitch says

    October 19, 2016 at 11:29 am

    Ariana Source is linked to Wikipedia article as is the photo.

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  2. Susan K says

    October 23, 2016 at 6:47 pm

    So enjoyable. I’m an old friend of Diane Tardy (RIP) who had be loving and owning Chow Chows for over 30 years. I love seeing them presented this way! =)

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    • alphabitch says

      October 28, 2016 at 5:49 pm

      Thank you so very much Susan for stopping by the site and leaving feedback!!! I so appreciate it. My goodness we all miss Diane. What a bright light she was and left a wonderful legacy with her chows. BIG HUGS, Sandra Miller (admin)

      Reply

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