Michèle Morgan
Birthday: 29 February 1920, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Birth Name: Simone Renée Roussel
Height: 163 cm
A classic beauty, blonde French actress Michèle Morgan has been one of her country's most popular leading ladies for over five decades. Born in 1920, she studied acting under René Simon and beg ...Show More
[on her Hollywood period] Why look back? I was so young then, so miserable with my poor attempts at Show more
[on her Hollywood period] Why look back? I was so young then, so miserable with my poor attempts at English. I used to say 'crying trees' for weeping willows. You didn't mow the lawn. No, you shaved it. And those pictures. Those stinkers. Hide
I have never had the opportunity to play sexy women. I must believe that my charm was not in my ass.
I have never had the opportunity to play sexy women. I must believe that my charm was not in my ass.
[observation, 1942] If I had or if I do have some success, it's not I at all but fate. I am just a p Show more
[observation, 1942] If I had or if I do have some success, it's not I at all but fate. I am just a poor little balloon transported along by circumstances or people. Hide
[on working with Jean Gabin in Le quai des brumes (1938)] There was a scene in which I was in the be Show more
[on working with Jean Gabin in Le quai des brumes (1938)] There was a scene in which I was in the bed, in the bedroom, and Gabin was not in the bed. He was sitting on the bed. Oh, it was very, very modest, it was not something very daring when you compare that sort of thing with what they do now. In fact, that scene was more exciting than what they do now, I suppose, because mystery is a great part in a love scene. Hide
[on Passage to Marseille (1944)] It was a wartime melodrama full of propaganda, although Hollywood a Show more
[on Passage to Marseille (1944)] It was a wartime melodrama full of propaganda, although Hollywood at that time couldn't have been more remote from the war. I didn't enjoy doing the film. At the time I was single, bored and unhappy with Hollywood. It seemed very unreal to me then. Hide
A woman can always deceive a hundred men, but not a single woman.
A woman can always deceive a hundred men, but not a single woman.
Michèle Morgan's FILMOGRAPHY
as Actor (4)
Michèle Morgan'S roles
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