The great Catherine Deneuve celebrates her 80th birthday! While she’s in the news for her portrayal of Bernadette Chirac in Bernadette and her role as a Marvel superhero, we invite you to take a look at her Hollywood career and especially this spy movie she almost missed. Filmed and directed. Alfred Hitchcock in the early 70s!
Hollywood industry star Catherine Deneuve discovered him in 1968, aged 25, when she starred in Mayerling, a historical drama that traces the tragic love story of Archduke Rudolph of Austria (played by Omar Sharif) and his mistress Marie Vecerra (Catherine). Denev). The actress then starred in the comedy April Follies with Jack Lemmon.
These two Hollywood attempts ended in failure, and Deneuve was no longer attracted to the limelight of American cinema, to the point where she turned down the role of a James Bond girl in a film about Her Majesty’s Secret Service. But when certain Alfred Hitchcock The French actor cannot refuse to participate in a spy movie.
The spy movie the master of suspense is working on is called Short Night. It tells the story, inspired by true events, of an English double agent who was sentenced to a long prison term for dealings with the USSR. He manages to escape in the company of another Irish prisoner.
In 1970, Hitchcock, who had acquired the rights to two books on the subject, wanted Catherine Deneuve and Walter Matthau to star in Short Night. But the project was repeatedly postponed. Whether or not stars such as Robert Redford, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery and Liv Ullman are approached, the puzzle pieces of The Short Night, with its almost finished plot, will never come together and the project will never be finished. See the daylight, the day.
In an interview given in 2010 To our colleagues at L’ExpressCatherine Deneuve spoke with the master of suspension in this missed meeting. “That was one of my regrets, like I never worked Mankiewicz“he said. “I could imagine myself in Hitchcock’s world. We had lunch together, he read me the script. It was going well, but it went too fast, unfortunately.”
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