Los Angeles: Micheline Presley, a leading French actress, debuted in the controversial ‘Devil in the Flesh’ before moving to Hollywood and playing roles alongside John Garfield, Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn and Paul Newman. According to The Hollywood Reporter, has died.
She was 101 years old.
Presley died on Wednesday in the Paris neighborhood of Nogent-sur-Marne, his son-in-law, Olivier Baumsel, informed Le Figaro. Presley gained worldwide fame playing a nurse having an affair with a student (Gerard Phillippe) in the World War I drama Devil in the Flesh (1947), which was voted one of the top ten films of all time by the National Board of Review. told. Year. Since it depicted a woman who had a lover while her husband was away at war, it sparked much debate.
Presley met American actor William Marshall, who was married to another French celebrity, Michel Morgan, and traveled to America with her in 1949. They planned to marry in Santa Barbara that same year. He signed with 20th Century Fox, who changed his surname to Prell and cast him in Jean Negulesco’s Under My Skin (1950), based on the Ernest Hemingway short story, as a café owner who is seduced by a corrupt jockey (Garfield ) falls in love with. ,
Before being loaned to Republic Pictures to perform with Flynn in ‘The Adventures of Captain Fabian’ (1951), he co-starred with Power in Fritz Lang’s Technicolor war drama ‘American Guerrilla in the Philippines’ (1950). acted out.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Marshall directed the picture, which was shot in France based on a screenplay written by Flynn. But according to The Hollywood Reporter, because these qualities failed to generate much fire, she and Marshall separated in 1954 and she moved to France. Presley, the daughter of an investment banker, was born Micheline Nicole Julia Émilienne Chassagne in Paris on August 22, 1922.
After a few small roles, he got his breakthrough in G.W. Pabst’s ‘Young Girls in Trouble’ (1939), plays the leader of a group of girls who are troubled by their parents’ divorce. Moving forward, she will use the surname of the character she played, Jacqueline Presley, as her stage name.
She played both mother and daughter in Abel Gance’s ‘Paradise Lost’ (1940). Presley began her comeback after a less successful stint in the United States with a leading role in Joseph Losey’s English-language murder mystery ‘Chance Meeting’ (1959).
She returned to Hollywood to play a former French showgirl and mother of Sandra Dee’s character in the romantic comedy ‘If a Man Answers’ (1962), which also starred Dee’s then-husband Bobby Darin. In 1963, he co-starred with Newman as a scientist in the spy drama ‘The Prize’ (1963), set against the backdrop of the Nobel Prize ceremony.
From 1965 to 1971, he starred in the French comedy series ‘Les Saintes Chéries’. His film credits include ‘Mel Hunt’ (1964), ‘The Legend of Frenchie King’ (1971), ‘Thieves After Dark’ (1984), and ‘Alain Resnais’ I Want to Go Home’ (1989), which He received a Cesar nomination for. He received an Honorary Cesar in 2004. His daughter Toni Marshall died in 2020 at the age of 68, after winning a historic Cesar Award for Venus Beauty Institute. (ANI)
