With classic patrician features and an independent, non conformist personality, Capucine began her film debut in 1949 at the age of 16 with an appearance in the film "The Rendez-vous de juillet (1949)". She attended school in France and received a BA degree in foreign languages. Married for seven months in her late teens, she never remarried. In 1957, she was discovered by Director 'Charles Feldma ...
show all With classic patrician features and an independent, non conformist personality, Capucine began her film debut in 1949 at the age of 16 with an appearance in the film "The Rendez-vous de juillet (1949)". She attended school in France and received a BA degree in foreign languages. Married for seven months in her late teens, she never remarried. In 1957, she was discovered by Director 'Charles Feldman' while working as a high fashion model for Givenchy in Paris, and brought to Hollywood to study acting under Gregory Ratoff. She was put under contract by Columbia studios in 1958, and had her first leading part in the movie, "Song Without End (1960)". She made 6 more major movies in the early to middle 1960s, two of which ("Lion (1962)" and "The 7th Dawn (1964)") starred William Holden with whom she had a two year affair. Moving from Hollywood to a penthouse apartment in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1962, she continued making movies, mostly in Europe, until her suicide in 1990.
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