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ACTOR

Capucine

Known for
The Pink Panther (1963), Soleil rouge (1971), Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

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Capucine is an actor best known for The Pink Panther, Soleil rouge and Curse of the Pink Panther.

16 Interesting Facts About Capucine

  1. #001

    Capucine was a longtime friend of Audrey Hepburn; the two met in Paris in the late 1940s while working as models. Capucine was manic-depressive, and her friend saved her life several times after repeated suicide attempts (both women were living in Switzerland at the time).

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    Capucine died after jumping from her eighth-floor apartment in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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    In 1952 she took a job modeling clothes in two-week fashion shows aboard a French passenger liner. She shared a cabin with 17-year-old dancer Brigitte Bardot, who was working in the ship's nightclub chorus.

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    When Capucine committed suicide in March 1990 at the age of 62, her New York Times obituary noted that her only survivors were her three cats.

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    Capucine, a longtime friend of Audrey Hepburn, was a witness at Hepburn's 1969 wedding to Dr. Andrea Dotti in Lausanne, Switzerland, where Hepburn lived for many years until her death.

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    According to rumor, Capucine was also remembered in the wills of William Holden (around $50,000) and Peter Sellers, as well as that of 20th Century-Fox studio head Darryl F. Zanuck.

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    A commercial photographer spotted Capucine while she was riding in a car in Paris. She soon became the top model for Maggy Rouff, Christian Dior and Hubert de Givenchy.

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  8. #009

    Capucine had a two-year relationship with the actor William Holden, who was married at the time.

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  9. #010

    One Wednesday in 1956 Capucine realized she was bored. Since she had never been to America, she flew there on the Friday. She modeled in New York for a time, and one night at the Manhattan restaurant Le Pavilion she met the star John Wayne and the manager/producer Charles K. Feldman. Feldman signed her to a contract (she later moved in with him) and sent her to California to learn English. She made her English-language debut as Princess Carolyne in Song Without End (1960).

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  10. #011

    Capucine was considered one of the great beauties of Europe.

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    Her French bourgeois family wanted her to become a schoolteacher. When she objected, they suggested she work in a bank.

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    Capucine was born in Saumur, France, the same small town on the banks of the Loire as Coco Chanel, one of her famous employers during her modeling days.

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  13. #015

    Dirk Bogarde said Capucine was the only woman he ever considered marrying, though he probably said it deliberately.

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  14. #016

    Her birth name was Germain.

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  15. #018

    Her last known address was Chemin de Primerose 6, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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  16. #019

    Her body was cremated and her ashes were scattered.

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