Louis Jourdan

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Hollywood career

Jourdan was photographed in a French film by a talent scout who sold the actor a deal in March 1946, citing author James McKay as the "epitome of the suave Continental."

Gregory Peck appeared in The Paradine Case (1947), his first American film. Alfred Hitchcock's film is a drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock, who did not want Jourdan to appear in the film as the valet. In Los Angeles, he appeared in a Ghosts revival.

Jourdan used to debate Selznick, who put him on probation several times for refusing to perform duties.

Selznick presented Jourdan and Alida Valli for Rupert of Hentzau, but the film was not made. Neither was Trilby, although Selznick predicted that Jourdan will appear in with Valli and Rossano Brazzi or If This Be My Heart with Valli and Robert Mitchum.

Jourdan starred in the Max Ophüls film Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), with Joan Fontaine. As the character aged over the film's lengthy run, David Thomson's character as Stefan Brand changed: "I notice how his talk has changed." Stefan was adolescent, eager, and open. The man is brimming with self-loathing and fake ironies ten years later. It was a "signature performance" from Jourdan, according to Thomson, who wrote, "handsome and a touch empty; romantic but not entirely there." "I felt he lacked sex appeal," the film's director, John Houseman, "felt that he didn't have a shortcoming," a key plot point. Jourdan became friends with several celebrities who professed his love of the game of croquet in Hollywood.

No Minor Vices (1948), a box office flop, was borrowed by a corporation. It was bought by MGM, who borrowed Jourdan to appear in Madame Bovary (1949).

Selznick announced him for The Frenchman and the Bobbysoxer, a sequel to The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, but it was not made. Selznick's fascination in Jourdan was sold to Warner Bros for one film.

Jourdan's Hollywood films had lost money. Selznick's contract was sold out for $50,000, so he decided to buy Selznick out of it.

Jourdan was the lead in a Bird of Paradise (1951) on television at 20th Century Fox. He stayed on to appear in Anne of the Indies (1951), directed by Jacques Tourneur. In the Fox remake of Les Miserables, he was slated for the romantic male lead, but he didn't appear in the film.

He appeared in The Good Times (1952), a comedy. He was reunited with Joan Fontaine for Decameron Nights (1953) and then moved to France to make Rue de l'Estrapade (1953).

Jourdan made his Broadway debut in André Gide's book, The Immoralist, after appearing in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954).

He returned to Broadway in 1955 for a brief time, but also in the years he made his American television debut as Inspector Beaumont in the TV series Paris Precinct. In 1956, he appeared in the film The Swan, starring both Grace Kelly and Sir Alec Guinness for MGM. This was Kelly's last film, and the box office lost money. Julie (1956), a drama in which Jourdan torment Doris Day, was more popular.

He returned to France to play the male lead in The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful (1956) with Brigitte Bardot as the lead actor and Escapade (1957). Dangerous Exile (1957), a British soldier, appeared in a swashbuckler.

In the film version of Colette's Gigi (1958), Jourdan appeared in his biggest hit playing the romantic lead alongside Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier. This film received nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. With The Best of Everything (1959), an all-star romance in the vein of Three Coins in the Fountain, he had another blast. An Evening with Louis Jourdan appeared on television, and he appeared in an evening show on television.

Jourdan was supposed to follow it in an England remake of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. "It's a great change of pace for me," he said. However, he did not appear in Dr. Jekyll's last film, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll.

In the musical Can-Can (1960), Jourdan co-starred with Frank Sinatra, Chevalier, and Shirley MacLaine. He travelled to Italy to appear in a peplum film called Amazons of Rome (1961). In the meantime, France was back to France for a huge hit on France's The Count of Monte Cristo (1961). Disorder (1962) was an Italian-French comedy, Mathias Sandorf (1963) was based on a Jules Verne novel.

He created The V.I.P.s. (1963), another all-star melodrama and a big hit for MGM.

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965), Jourdan appeared in the Alan Jay Lerner/Barton Lane stage musical, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965), at least during its out-of-town tryout at the Colonial Theatre in Boston. Before the show reached Broadway, John Cullum was promoted as the show's leading man.

He helped Ann-Margret in Made in Paris (1966) for MGM, then returned to Europe: The Sultans (1967) Cervantes (1967). To Die in Paris (1968) was a US television film and A Flea in Her Ear (1968), a Hollywood sponsored farce.

Fear No Evil (1969), Run a Crooked Mile (1970), Ritual of Suffer (1970) The Great American Beauty Contest (1973) There were more television films: Fear No Evil (1969), The Fear of Evil (1969), Ritual of Murder (1970). Jourdan appeared on television, including 1977's Count Dracula for the BBC and as a violent food critic in the 1978 Columbo episode "Murder Under Glass."

Anton Arcane appeared in the film Swamp Thing (1982) and later in its sequel Return to Swamp Thing (1989).

Jourdan produced a number of spoken word albums of the Babar the Elephant books in the 1970s that were issued by Caedmon Records.

In 1983, Jourdan played the villainous Kamal Khan in the James Bond film Octopussy. He said he earned the majority of his money in the last ten years doing commercials at the time:

He appeared in a Gigi revival in 1985.

In The First Olympics: Athens 1896, Pierre de Coubertin (1863–1937), a French historian and baron, in The First Olympics: Athens, 1896, a NBC TV (2-part) mini-series about the 1896 Summer Olympics and the American team member/discus thrower from Baltimore, Robert Garrett (1875–1961). In Year of the Comet (1992), his last film appearance was eight years later.

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