The New Look: Was Arlette the actress after the war as shown in the Apple TV+ series?

This is a new prestige series from Apple TV+. The New Look presents a double biopic about Christian Dior and Coco Chanel. In Nazi-occupied Paris, as Coco Chanel’s (Juliette Binoche) reign comes to an end, Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn) is a rising star who brings the world to life with his revolutionary and iconic style that has influenced generations past and present. .

Todd A. Kessler’s series (Damages, Bloodline) in particular looks at Coco Chanel’s collaboration with the Nazis. She has an affair with Spatz (Claes Bang), a German officer who is seduced by the orders of the Third Reich because of his contacts and influence.

Arlette in a new look

In episode 4, the war is over and it’s time to celebrate. Coco Chanel throws a party to which she invites her friend Arlette (Josephine de la Baume), who is introduced in the series as “the most famous living French actress”.

A small party during which she utters this famous sentence, after confessing that she is having an affair with a German officer: “The heart is French and the butt is internationalAn officer who does not appear in the series and whose name is not mentioned is Hans Jürgen Söhring, one of Hermann Göring’s confidants.

Later in the same episode, the FFI (French Internal Forces) go hunting for the staff. Women who had relations with Germans were then threatened with an immediate sanction: beheaded. Punishment takes place in the public square, where the tortured are subject to public vengeance.

And this is Arlette, who is represented as one of those shaved women, humiliated in front of a crowd, in the back of a truck. But did this scene really happen?

Did Arlette get cut?

In 1996, journalist Dennis Dempion published a biography of the actor with the sober title Arletteat home Flamerion. He explains that Arletti must answer for her affair with Hans Jürgen Sohring. It’s not a mower, unlike what the Apple TV+ series shows.

What we call “horizontal cooperation” led to him being sent to the Drancy camp for a few days, then to Frenes Penitentiary Center for a few weeks. Drance was used as an internment site for collaborators during the purge. Then Arlet was under house arrest for 18 months.

As told in the TV movie Arletty, a guilty passion – where Laetitia Casta plays the star of the Hôtel du Nord – the actress received a reprimand from the purge committee in 1946, as well as a three-year ban from work.

The fourth episode of The New Look is now available on Apple TV+.