Simone Signoret

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Simone Signoret (25 March 1921 – 30 September 1985) was a French cinema actress who was often praised as one of France's top film actors.

She became the second French woman to receive an Academy Award for her work in Room at the Top (1959). She has received two Césars, three BAFTAs, an Emmy, a Cannes Film Festival Award, the Silver Bear for Best Actress awards, an NBR Award, and a Golden Globe nomination.

Early life

Signoret was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, to Georgette (née Signoret) and André Kaminker as the eldest of three children, with two younger brothers. Her father, a pioneering interpreter who worked in the League of Nations, was a French-born army officer from a Polish Jewish family who moved the family to Neuilly-sur-Seine, which was on the outskirts of Paris. Georgette, her mother, from whom she inherited her stage name, was a French Catholic.

Signoret grew up in Paris in a vibrant atmosphere and learned English, German, and Latin. Simone was responsible for assisting her family and forcing her to work as a typewriter for a French collaborationist newspaper, Les nouveaux temps, run by Jean Luchaire after finishing secondary school during the Nazi occupation.

Personal life

In 1978, Signoret's memoirs, Nostalgia Isn't What It Used To Be, were published. Adieu Volodya, her first book, was also published in 1985, the year of her death.

Signoret first married filmmaker Yves Allégret (1944–49), with whom she had a daughter Catherine Allégret, herself an actress. Yves Montand, an Italian-born French actor, was married in 1951, during which she died; the pair had no children at the time; she had no children.

Signoret died of pancreatic cancer in Autheuil-Authouillet, France, at the age of 64. She was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, and Yves Montand was buried next to her.

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Career

Signoret mixed with an artistic group of writers and actors who attended at the Café de Flore in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter during his French occupation. By this time, she had developed an interest in acting and had been encouraged by her peers, including her lover Daniel Gélin, to follow her dream. She began appearing in bit parts in 1942, and as her father, a French patriot, had left the country in 1940 to join General De Gaulle in England, she was able to provide her mother and two brothers. To help hide her Jewish roots, she used her mother's maiden name on the screen to help conceal her Jewish roots.

Signoret's sensual appearances and earthy temperament resulted in typecasting, and she was often seen as a prostitute in films. In La Ronde (1950), a film that was barred briefly in New York as immoral, she attracted a lot of attention. She received more recognition, including an acting award from the British Film Academy for her portrayal of another prostitute in Jacques Becker's Casque d'or (1951). Thérèse Raquin (1953), directed by Marcel Carné, Les Diaboliques (1954), and The Crucible (Les Sorcières de Salem; 1956), based on Arthur Miller's The Crucible, she appeared in numerous French films during the 1950s, including Thérèse Raquin (1953), directed by Marcel Carné (1954).

Signoret appeared in the English independent film Room at the Top (1959), from which her emotionally acclaimed appearances earned her numerous accolades, including the Best Female Achievement Prize at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Actress. Juliette Binoche (Supporting Actress, 1997) and Marion Cotillard (Best Actress, 2008), and not for nearly 40 years did another French actress receive an Academy Award: Juliette Binoche (Supporting Actress, 1997) and Marion Cotillard (Best Actress, 2008). She was shot in Hollywood but she stopped filming for several years, then went back to France and England — for example, opposite Laurence Olivier in Term of Trial (1962). She received a second Oscar nomination for her role on Ship of Fools (1965), as well as a few other Hollywood films before returning to France in 1969.

Signoret converted Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes in French for a six-month run at the Theatre Sarah-Bernhardt in 1962. She appeared in Regina as well. Even though Hellman's translation was approved by scholars, Hellman was dissatisfied with the result.

Signoret's one attempt at Shakespeare, opposite Alec Guinness at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1966, was ill-advised, with several harsh critics; one of her remarks referred to her English as "impossibly Gallic."

Signoret was never concerned with fame, dismissed sexist and ageist insults, and continued to give graceful performances. In I Sent a Letter to My Love (1980), she received more acclaim for her portrayal of a weary madam in Madame Rosa (1977) and as an unmarried sister who unintentionally falls in love with her paraphrased brother via anonymous correspondence. She appeared in many films before her death in 1985.

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