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    Soumitra Chatterjee 1935-2020

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    One of my favourite performances of Chatterjee is from Ganashatru (1989) aka Ibsen's An Enemy of the People.  Chatterjee plays a doctor during a pandemic who is at odds with a public that is in denial.  Criterion has this film so it should be available to TCM if it has not already been played by them.

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    Danielle Darrieux (1917–2017)

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    Danielle Darrieux passed away October 17 at the age of 100.  I may be mistaken but I don't think this has been announced here.

    Life and career[edit]

    Darrieux was born in Bordeaux, France, during World War I, the daughter of Marie-Louise (Witkowski) and Jean Darrieux, a medical doctor who was serving in the French Army.[1][2] Her mother was born in Algeria.[3] Her father died when she was seven years old.

    Raised in Paris, she studied the cello at the Conservatoire de Musique.[4] At 14, she won a part in the musical film Le Bal (1931).[5] Her beauty combined with her singing and dancing ability led to numerous other offers; the film Mayerling (1936) brought her to prominence.[6]

    In 1935, Darrieux married director/screenwriter Henri Decoin,[3] who encouraged her to try Hollywood. She signed a seven-year contract with Universal Studios to star in The Rage of Paris (1938)[5] opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Afterwards, she elected to return to Paris.

    Under the German occupation of France during World War II, Darrieux continued to perform, a decision that was severely criticized by her compatriots. However, it is reported that her brother had been threatened with deportation by Alfred Greven, the German manager of Continental, the only film production company permitted in occupied France. She received a divorce and then fell in love with Porfirio Rubirosa, a Dominican Republic diplomat and notorious womanizer. They married in 1942. His anti-Nazi opinions resulted in his forced residence in Germany. In exchange for Rubirosa's freedom, Darrieux agreed to make a promotional trip in Berlin. The couple lived in Switzerland until the end of the war, and divorced in 1947. She married scriptwriter Georges Mitsikidès in 1948, and they lived together until his death in 1991.

    Darrieux appeared in the MGM musical Rich, Young and Pretty (1951). Joseph L. Mankiewicz lured her back to Hollywood to star in 5 Fingers (1952) with James Mason. Upon returning to France, she appeared in Max Ophüls' The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) with Charles Boyer, and The Red and the Black (1954) with Gérard Philippe. She starred in Lady Chatterley's Lover (1955), whose theme of uninhibited sexuality led to its being proscribed by Catholic censors in the United States. She played a supporting role in her last American film, United Artists' epic Alexander the Great (1956) starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom.

    At the request of director Lewis Gilbert, Darrieux worked in England to shoot The Greengage Summer (1961) with Kenneth More. In 1963, she starred in the romantic comedy La Robe Mauve de Valentine at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris. The play was adapted from the novel by Françoise Sagan.

    In Jacques Demy's film musical The Young Girls of Rochefort (1966) her role was the only one in which a principal actor in any of Demy's film-musicals sang his or her own musical parts. (All other actors had a separate person dub their singing parts.) During the 1960s, she also was a concert singer.

    In 1970, Darrieux replaced Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway musical Coco, based on the life of Coco Chanel,[7] but the play, essentially a showcase for Hepburn, soon folded without her. In 1971 and 1972 she also appeared in the short-lived productions of Ambassador. She worked again with Demy for his film Une chambre en ville (1982), an opera-like musical melodrama reminiscent of the director's earlier work The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, 1964). Once again, Darrieux provided her own vocals for her songs.

    Honors[edit]

    For her long service to the motion picture industry, in 1985 she was given an Honorary César Award. She continued to work, her career spanning eight decades, most recently providing the voice of the protagonist's grandmother in the animated feature, Persepolis (2007), which deals with the impact of the Islamic revolution on a girl's life as she grows to adulthood in Iran.

    Death[edit]

    Danielle Darrieux died on 17 October 2017 at the age of 100, due to complications from a fall, five months after turning 100 that May.[8][9]

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    Your Favourite Foreign Language Films

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    and I’ve also seen …

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    Love on a Pillow (1962) Roger Vadim, France

    Going by the American title I had expected a silly Bardot comedy but instead got a vey dark tale of a beautiful woman who is inexorably attracted to a nihilistic self-destructive and rather horrible man played by Robert Hossein.  It was like a bad heroin trip without any mention of drugs.  The French title, Le Repos du Guerrier or Warrior’s Rest is more appropriate.  Despite Bardot stretching her range I would still rate this a miss.

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    "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek (1940-2020)

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    I'm sorry to hear this.  I was in the audience for a taping of his show Reach For the Top circa 1973 when it came to our high school.  It was a Canadian Quiz Show pitting one school against another.

    Being kids we were shouting out answers and making noise and Alex rightfully got very mad at commercial break and threatened to clear the auditorium.  Years later Eugene Levy spoofed the show on SCTV.  And if you recall his host lost his temper too.  I wondered if he had been to one of Alex's tapings?

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    R.I.P. Alex.  You will be really missed.

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