Simone Signoret

Took to film work during WWII as a means of supporting her family after her father, a Jewish linguist, had fled to London to join the Free French Army. With her sensuous, heavy-featured face, Signoret was not a conventional film beauty, but her distinctive look and dusky voice combined with her formidable talent to produce a unique and enduring image of French womanliness. Projecting both… See Full Simone Signoret Biography

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