Capucine

Former top fashion model for Parisian haute couture houses who came to Hollywood in the late 1950s, studied acting and made her Hollywood screen debut as a Russian princess in "Song Without End" (1960). Capucine's patrician beauty leant an aloof elegance to such Hollywood films as "A Walk on the Wild Side" (1962), "The Pink Panther" (1964), in which she played Inspector Clouseau's treacherous wife, and "What's New Pussycat?" (1965) and later helped to make her an international star in films by Federico Fellini, Joseph Mankiewicz and Francois Truffaut. She committed suicide in 1990.

• Also Credited As:
  Germaine Lefebvre
• Born:
  January 6, 1933 in Toulon, France
• Died:
  March 17, 1990.
• Job Titles:
  Actor, Model

Milestones

• 1949 Film debut at 16 in a bit part in Jacques Becker's "Les Rendez-Vous De Juillet"; also appeared in Marcel Achard's "La Valse de Paris" (1950)
• 1960 First US film, "Song Without End"
• 1981 Bequeathed $50,000 in William Holden's will
• Moved to Hollywood; signed contract with producer Charles K. Feldman and learned English in the late 1950s
• Worked as model in Paris for haute couture houses such as Dior and Givenchy