Lovely French Actress Claude Jade has died

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 12/10/06 at 3:37am

I'm probably the only one on the board who cares, but...





December 7, 2006
Claude Jade, 58, Actress in Truffaut Films, Dies

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS, Dec. 6 (AP) — Claude Jade, the French actress who starred in several of the best-loved films by the director Francois Truffaut, died Friday in Boulogne-Billancourt, a Paris suburb. She was 58.

She had been hospitalized with eye cancer, which had spread, said Jacques Rampal, a playwright Ms. Jade had recently worked with.

Ms. Jade first caught Truffaut’s attention while appearing onstage in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV” in the 1960s. He cast her as a young woman in love in the 1968 film “Baisers Volés” (“Stolen Kisses”), alongside leading man Jean-Pierre Léaud. Truffaut continued the story of the characters’ marriage and divorce in “Domicile Conjugal” (“Bed & Board”) and “L’Amour en Fuite” (“Love on the Run”).

Born Claude Jorre, Ms. Jade had a role in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1969 film “Topaz,” about a French spy network, and she also appeared alongside the crooner Jacques Brel in the 1969 film “Mon Oncle Benjamin” (“My Uncle Benjamin”).

Ms. Jade, who was a knight in the French Legion of Honor, also had a thriving career on the stage. Her last role was in Mr. Rampal’s play “Celimene et le Cardinal” (“Celimene and the Cardinal”), which played in Paris and in festivals last summer. Already suffering from cancer, she wore a plastic eye for her performances, Mr. Rampal said. Before she died, she had been reading the script for a television movie that she had hoped to shoot in the spring, he said.

[cturtle]

Posted: 12/10/06 at 4:19am

i care! she was a wonderful mate/foil for leaud in STOLEN KISSES and BED AND BOARD ... two of my favorites. i bet she was great on the stage.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 12/10/06 at 11:57am

Cturtle, I KNEW you would care.

It's sad though. A lot of the people Truffaut surrounded himself with died young. Ms. Jade seemed to carry forth with a great deal of strength and personal integrity though.

She was so ideal at playing Christine Darbon that I always thought she was an unyielding control freak and that poor Antoine should get away from her as quickly as possible, but that just shows how convincing an actress she was.

[cturtle]

Posted: 12/10/06 at 4:02pm