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 Every time I get in front of a camera, I think of it as an attractive man I am meeting for the first time. I find him demanding and aloof - so I must do all in my power to interest him. Capucine. The camera has a love affair with her face. [Director George Cukor] Men spoil women in America. A woman needs to know that the man is her master. Capucine. Men look at me like I`m a suspicious-looking trunk, and they`re customs agents.Trivia Was riding in a carriage in Paris when a commercial photographer noticed her. She soon became a top fashion model for Maggie Rouff, Dior and Givenchy. According to rumor, Capucine was remembered in the wills of actors William Holden (to the tune of $50,000) and Peter Sellers as well as that of Fox kingpin Darryl F. Zanuck. Capucine was considered one of the great beauties of Europe. Capucine was a witness to the 1969 wedding of longtime friend Audrey Hepburn to Dr.Andrea Dotti in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she lived for many years until her death. A former model, Capucine, born in Saumur, France, hails from the same small town on the Loire as one of her famous patrons, Coco Chanel. Capucine, her name adopted during her modeling career, is French for the flower nasturtium and is pronounced KAP-OOH-SEEN. 1956: On a certain Wednesday, she realized she was bored. Having never been to America, she flew there on Friday. She modeled in New York for a while, and one night at the Pavilion she met actor John Wayne and agent/director Charles K. Feldman. Feldman signed her to a contract and sent her to California to learn English. She made her English-speaking debut as Princess Carolyne in Song Without End (1960). Her French bourgeois family wanted her to become a school teacher. When she balked at that, they suggested she work in a bank. Nickname to close friends was "Cap". At 21, Capucine met her spouse on the set of the 1949 film Rendez-vous de juillet (1949) (her first screen appearance) and married him the following year. The marriage lasted six months. Capucine was a longtime friend of Audrey Hepburn, the two having met while modeling in Paris in the late forties. A manic-depressive, Capucine's life had on several occasions been saved by her friend (both women lived at the time in Switzerland) after repeated suicide attempts. When she committed suicide in March 1990 at the age of sixty-two, her obituary in the New York Times stated that her only known survivors were her three cats. Had a relationship with the actor William Holden. Died in Lausanne, Switzerland, after jumping from her eighth-story apartment. | ||
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