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Marie Laforêt

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Marie Laforêt (1939) is a French singer and actress of Armenian descent. After her first appearance in the drama Plein Soleil (1960, René Clément) opposite Alain Delon she became very popular and interpreted many roles in the 1960’s. As a singer she is best loved for Marie douceur, Marie colère, her version of the Rolling Stones hit Paint it black.

Marie Laforêt was born as Maïténa Doumenach in Soulac-sur-Mer in the Gironde in 1939. Her parents were of Armenian origin. Marie’s career began accidentally in 1959 when she stepped in for her sister at the last minute in the French radio talent contest Naissance d'une étoile (Birth of a star) - and won. Director Louis Malle then cast the young starlet in the film he was shooting at the time, Liberté (Freedom). The film was eventually abandoned but Marie went on to take the lead female role in the classic Plein Soleil/Purple Noon (1960, René Clément) – based on book The talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith – opposite heart throb Alain Delon. That same year she married director Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, who cast her later in some of his own works, including La Fille aux Yeux d'Or/The Girl with the Golden Eyes (1961), based on the Honoré de Balzac story. The film title would become her nickname. In her second film, Saint Tropez Blues (1961, Marcel Moussy), accompanied by a young Jacques Higelin at the guitar, she sang the title song. Immediately she started releasing singles. Her first hit was the chirpy folk-ish Les Vendanges de l'Amour in 1963. In a translated version, the song also gave Marie a top ten hit in Italy, as La vendemmia dell'amore, a year later. She also recorded some rock songs, her most famous being Marie-douceur, Marie-colère (1966), a cracking version of the Rolling Stones hit Paint It Black. Another popular recording was 1965's girl-groupish A demain, my darling, known by English-speakers as The Sha La La Song and recorded by Marianne Faithfull on her debut album. Her later songs offered a more mature, poetic, tender alternative to the light, teenage yé-yé tunes charting in France at the time. Her melodies borrowed more from exotic folk music, especially South American and Eastern European, than from contemporary American and British pop acts. Laforêt worked with many important French composers, musicians and lyricists, such as André Popp and Pierre Cour, who provided her with a panoply of colorful, sophisticated orchestral arrangements, featuring dozens of musical instruments and creating a variety of sounds, sometimes almost Medieval, Renaissance or Baroque, other times quite modern and innovative. Meanwhile she appeared in several French and Italian films, including Leviathan/Dark Journey (1962, Léonard Keigel) with Louis Jourdan, À cause, à cause d'une femme/Because, Because of a Woman (1963, Michel Deville) with Jacques Charrier, La chasse à l'homme/Male Hunt (1964, Edouard Molinaro) opposite Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Le soldatesse/The Camp Followers (1965, Valerio Zurlini) starring Anna Karina. She also appeared opposite George Hamilton in the American comedy Jack of Diamonds (1967, Don Sharp).
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