Simone Signoret

1921 - 1985  (64 years)    Has 2 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Simone Signoret
  Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker
  Relationship	with Francis Fox
  Born	25 Mar 1921	Wiesbaden, Hessen, D
  Gender	Female
  Died	30 Sep 1985	Auteuil-Anthouillet, France
  Person ID	I373602	Geneagraphie
  Links To	This person is also Simone Signoret at Wikipedia
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2002

  
  

  Father	André Kaminker,   b. 1888,   d. 1961  (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Georgette Signoret,   b. 1896,   d. 1984  (Age 88 years)
  Family ID	F148241	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Yves Allégret,   b. 3 Oct 1907, Asnières, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France ,   d. 21 Jan 1987, Paris, Île-de-France, Fr  (Age 79 years)
  Married	1948
  Divorced	1949
  Children	+ 1. Living
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2002
  Family ID	F148237	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Yves Montand,   b. 13 Oct 1921, Monsummano Alto, Tuscany, Italy ,   d. 9 Nov 1991, Senlis, Oise, Picardie, France  (Age 70 years)
  Married	1951
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2002
  Family ID	F148236	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  		Born - 25 Mar 1921 - Wiesbaden, Hessen, D  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Signoret had a long film apprenticeship during World War II, mostly as an extra and occasionally getting to speak a single line. She was working without an official permit during the Nazi occupation of France, because her father, who had fled to England, was Jewish. Working almost all the time, Signoret made enough as an extra to support her mother and three younger brothers. Her breakthrough to international stardom came at the age of 38 with the British film, Room at the Top (1959). There Alice Aisgill, an unhappily married woman who hopes she has found true love, had real warmth in all of her scenes, not just those in bed. She was the same woman as Dedee, a prostitute who finds true love in "Dedee d'Anvers", a film directed by Signoret's first husband, Yves Allegret, a decade earlier. Hollywood beckoned throughout the 1950s, but both Signoret and her second husband, Yves Montand, were refused visas to enter the United States. They were too politically active on the left for the McCarthy era. They got visas in 1960 so Montand as a singer could perform in New York and San Francisco. They were in Los Angeles in March 1960 when Signoret received the Oscar for best actress and stayed on so Montand could play opposite Marilyn Monroe in Let's Make Love (1960). The Signoret film that is shown most often on TV and that got a threatrical re-release in 1995, four decades after it was made is the French thriller, "Diabolique". The chilly character Signoret plays is proof of her acting ability. More typical of her personna is the countess in Ship of Fools (1965), a film which also starred Vivien Leigh -- more than doubling its chances of being in a video store or library film collection.