Catherine Deneuve set 7 of 10

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Why Should Sadness Overcome the Ones Who Don't Have Deneuve. . ... Paris, 1965; photo by Willy Rizzo ............. Deneuve was so beautiful “that a cinema-goer ............... finds his happiness simply by looking at her. ....... Her face alone repays the price of a man’s ticket.” .................................................. ................ François Truffaut Fingers crossed these images have not appeared (given the thread's length, I didn't check for dupes). This is a quickie highlighting some of the images and text from . Her biographer wrote: She who for almost four decades has symbolised, represented, personified, both in France and beyond its borders, not only French cinema but France itself; its classical elegance, haughty charm, its innumerable paradoxes. While aware Ms. Deneuve served as one of Roger Vadim's conquests, I didn't know he got his hands on her when she, one of four sisters, was only sixteen. (Catherine was maybe ten or eleven in her first movie which featured nudity and lesbian overtones, The Twilight Girls , released in 1957.) Vadim wrote: “Her body was very white, rather fragile, and as delicate as the features on her face. I remember thinking I’d never seen such beautiful breasts.” She bore him a son at the age of twenty, and looked down on marriage after giving it one 1965-1970 try. Catherine later shacked up with the cinema's