Overview
- Relatives told AFP she died Friday at her home in Labastide-d’Armagnac, France, two days before her 100th birthday.
- Discovered in Paris, she rose as a leading model of the 1940s–50s with covers for Marie-Claire, Noir et Blanc and Harper’s Bazaar and a 1946 Life feature.
- Her screen work included Billy Wilder’s Love in the Afternoon with Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn and Maurice Chevalier.
- Other notable credits spanned The River Girl (1954), It Happens in Roma (1955) and Dishonorable Discharge (1957).
- She ended her film career after two 1959 releases, later citing hostile press and a preference for privacy; her personal life included a brief marriage to Roberto Seabra and a long partnership with former Interior Minister Raymond Marcellin.