Man Ray-Catherine Deneuve 1968One of many celebrity portraits that Man Ray photographed during his career. As well as being one of the most beautiful actress to ever grace the screen Catherine Deneuve starred in two Bunuel movies, most notably as the housewife who turns prostitute by day to satisfy her masochistic impulses in Belle Du Jour. Her cool and aloof screen persona in the 60’s seemed to bring out a sadistic streak in her directors, especially Polanski’s Repulsion. It surprising that Hitchcock never cast her as in many ways she was the ideal Hitchcockian heroine, icy, inaccessible and above all blonde.
Catherine Deneuve remains active in movies after five decades in the business; other noteworthy movies is the trashy but enjoyable lesbian vampire flick The Hunger and Lars Von Triers Dancer in the Dark.
Absolutely agree, she still maintains her style, charm and grace. Time was certainly kinder to her than Brigitte Bardot, but she seems like a much nicer person than Bardot.
Also, and this is the level of my scatter braininess, today … I enjoyed the post and believe she indeed would have been a fabulous Hitchcock heroine. Meant to say that.
A classic beauty indeed. You are correct, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon were her co-stars, also William Dafoe made his debut in a cameo. I love Bowie but an actor he was not. His best role was in The Man who fell to earth but he is basically playing his weird extraterrestrial 70’s persona in that movie, strung out on speedballs. Catherine is ravishing in The Hunger and imparts a genuine pathos to the 3000 year old bisexual vampire, quite a feat really. She become a bit of a lesbian icon after The Hunger.
Hello, she is a beautiful woman of course but do you know she is also very funny -:) look at my post and you can see her speaking about fashion http://i-shouldnt.fr/ha-ha-ha/ Have a good day Sylvie
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A lovely and elegant woman. I bet HItchcock could never get hold of her. He was known to be very controlling of his actresses.
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He certainly was. She was certainly his type but maybe she was just too self possessed
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Yes. I believe she had a certain status whereas Hitchcock actresses did not, relying heavily on him for their careers.
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True she was a star in France in her teens and her English came later… she was quite careful with her film choices.
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She chose some bizarre ones too! But she was quite unique.
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And isn’t that the thing to be after all is said and done?
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Yes definitely!
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Something to aspire to
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I always was in love with her even into her older years.
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Absolutely agree, she still maintains her style, charm and grace. Time was certainly kinder to her than Brigitte Bardot, but she seems like a much nicer person than Bardot.
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Cake, when my skills improve a little more, I’m going to sketch Catherine for you and send it to you. 💛
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Thank you I am so very fond of Catherine. She seems lovely in interviews, charming, intelligent and unaffected.
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Since I’ve come to known you, I’ve begun to suspect that your naming of more than one of your characters Catherine, was because of Catherine Deneuve.
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Hmmm in my case life always imitates art so while she might be part of the reason she isn’t the only reason
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Oh Cake, you’ve just piqued my curiosity!
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I do it so well
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Such a provocateur!
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I aim to mystify
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Mostly succeed.
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Only mostly
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Yep. 9 out of 10. Don’t worry when you don’t mystify, you still charm!
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Hmmm
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Aw, now I’ve ruined your evening haven’t I?
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Pretty much
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Ah, sorry. Tell you what… I’ll play along, promulgate the myth of Cake and you get busy on TF. Deal? 😉
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I am writing yet another Toyen post, this one is definitely NSFW
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I love Toyen. Love NSFW. This makes me happy.
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Well you should be delighted with the new post.
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On my way.
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Also, and this is the level of my scatter braininess, today … I enjoyed the post and believe she indeed would have been a fabulous Hitchcock heroine. Meant to say that.
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She would have, she probably a match for Hitchcock though, and I don’t think he took kindly to that.
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A classic beauty, I recall her role in The Hunger…if I am not mistaken that also starred David Bowie.
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A classic beauty indeed. You are correct, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon were her co-stars, also William Dafoe made his debut in a cameo. I love Bowie but an actor he was not. His best role was in The Man who fell to earth but he is basically playing his weird extraterrestrial 70’s persona in that movie, strung out on speedballs. Catherine is ravishing in The Hunger and imparts a genuine pathos to the 3000 year old bisexual vampire, quite a feat really. She become a bit of a lesbian icon after The Hunger.
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A big fan of willem Dafoe .
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Gorgeous!!!!
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Hello, she is a beautiful woman of course but do you know she is also very funny -:) look at my post and you can see her speaking about fashion http://i-shouldnt.fr/ha-ha-ha/ Have a good day Sylvie
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