Background
Michèle Morgan was born on 29 February 1920 in Neuilly, Ile-de-France, France.
Michèle Morgan was born on 29 February 1920 in Neuilly, Ile-de-France, France.
With R. Simon (Paris).
Her most memorable appearance was at the age of eighteen in Marcel Camé s Quai des Bnones (38), in which she played the timid, slant-eyed ward of Michel Simon who falls in love with Jean Gabin. Her austere features were accentuated by beret and trench coat and her eyes seemed to foresee the pain and loss in the foggy, fatalistic- world that Carné and Prévert created on the brink of war.
She had made her debut for Marc Allégret in 1937 in Gribouille and Orage (38), and after Quai des Brumes she made La Loi du Nord (39, Jacques Feyder), Untel Père et Fils (40, Julien Duvivier), and Remonpies (41, Jean Grémillon) before leaving for America. While there, she was the resistance heroine in Joan of Paris (42, Robert Stevenson), played opposite Sinatra and sang in Higher and Higher (43, Tim Whelan), appeared in Passage to Marseilles (44, Michael Curtiz) and The Chase (46, Arthur Ripley).
After the war, she returned to France for La Symphonie Pastorale (46, |ean Delannoy) and then went to England to play in The Fallen Idol (48, Carol Reed). Since then, she has been a faltering but beautiful star of the French cinema, if rarely in good films: Aux Yeux du Souvenir (48, Delannoy); Fabiola (49, Alessandro Blasetti); Le Château de Verre (50, René Clément); La Minute de Vérité (52, Delannoy); Les Orgueilleux (53, Yves Allégret); Napoléon (55, Sacha Guitry); excellent in Summer Manoeuvres (55, René Clair); Marguerite de la Nuit (55, Claude Autant-Lara); Si Paris Nous Était Coûté (56, Guitry); The Vintage (57, Jeff fey Hayden); Le Miroir à Deux Faces (58, André Cayatte); Fortunat (60, Alex Joffé); Le Crime ne Paie pas (61, Gérard Ourv); Landru (62, Claude Chabrol); Lost Command (66, Mark Robson); Benjamin (67, Michel Deville); and Cat and Mouse (75, Claude Lelouch).
She played herself in RobeH et Robert (78, Lelouch), and she has appeared in Un Homme et une Femme: 20 Ans Déjà (86, Lelouch) and Stanno Tutti Bene (90, Giuseppe Tornatore). Then she moved over to TV for La Veuve de l'Architecte (95, Philippe Monnier); Des Gens si Bien Elevés (97, Alain Nahum); La Rivale (98, Nahum).
Married 1st Bill Marshall, one son. Married 2nd Henri Vidal (deceased).