Françoise Arnoul died on Jat the age of 90 years. Françoise Arnoul was born on Jin Constantine, Algeria. Francoise continued to work as a character actress, primarily in television, well into her eighties. Her career went into decline as Brigitte Bardot rose to prominence. and in Britain she was tagged as the ‘X Girl’. Francoise’s first exposure to American audiences was Vadim’s Les compagnes de la nuit (1953), but some of her other films were banned in the U.S. Her best known starring roles were in Le fruit défendu (1952), Les amants du Tage (1954), Jean Renoir’s evocative French Cancan (1955) (as Nini, the bakery girl turned dancer), Des gens sans importance (1956), Le chemin des écoliers (1959) and Julien Duvivier’s Le Diable et les Dix Commandements (1962). She was directed on five occasions by Henri Verneuil, who, along with Roger Vadim, had a lot to do with establishing her preeminent screen personae. For much of the succeeding decade Francoise enjoyed a pre-Bardot sex symbol status, usually cast as temperamental, brooding or promiscuous heroines or femmes fatale opposite leading popular actors like Jean Gabin, Alain Delon and Charles Boyer. The story goes that the director Willy Rozier saw a photograph of her, was captivated by her face and petite figure and promptly cast her as the female lead in his drama L’épave (1949), often considered his best work. Her family moved to Paris in 1945, where she studied drama under Andrée Bauer-Thérond, and four years later made her motion picture debut. Francoise was the daughter of French Artillery General Charles-Lionel-Honoré Arnould (1882-1969), who was stationed in Morocco when she was born. Leading French actress and dancer, born Annette Marie Mathilde Gautsch in Constantine, Algeria. HomeTown: Constantine, Constantine, Algeria
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