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  1. Seberg, Jean - Actress, USA - *13.11.1938-30.08.1979+ Scene from the movie 'Saint Joan'' Directed by: Otto Preminger USA / Great Britain 1957 Produced by: Wheel Productions Vintage property of ullstein bild. Browse Getty Images' premium collection of high-quality, authentic Jean Seberg Photos stock photos, royalty-free images, and pictures.

    • Becoming Jean Seberg
    • Jean Seberg’s Shot at Fame
    • A Ruinous Run-In with The Law
    • A Tragic End

    For an effortlessly cool, French New Wave cinema star, Jean Seberg had a surprisingly home-grown American origin story. Born in Marshalltown, Iowa on November 13, 1938, to a pharmacist and substitute teacher, everything about Seberg’s upbringing suggested a life of relative normalcy. But after graduating high school, Seberg enrolled at the Universi...

    Despite all of his faith in Seberg, Preminger couldn’t draw a performance from her that wasn’t met with scathing reviews. The New York Times called her a “misplaced amateur.” The The New Yorker saidSeberg’s acting “makes one want to give her a long, and possibly therapeutic, paddling…” Seberg nonetheless made the most of her time in France while fi...

    Offscreen, Jean Seberg was known for her progressive social activism. She made donations to the NAACP, a Native American school near her home of Marshalltown, and to the Black Panther Party. In fact, Seberg is said to have ultimately donated an estimated $10,500 to the Black Panther Party. Along with a phone call to then-Black Panther leader Elaine...

    Seberg said in a 1974 interview that she “cracked up” after her baby died. She went home to Marshalltown to bury her. “I did the whole deal,” Seberg reported. “We opened the coffin and took 180 photographs and everybody in Marshalltown who was curious what color the baby was got a chance to check it out.” According to Romain Gary, every year therea...

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  2. Added: Apr 25, 1998. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 1646. Source citation. Actress. She is best remembered for her roles in such movies as Bonjour Tristesse (1958), The Mouse that Roared (1959), Paint Your Wagon (1969), and Airport (1970). Born in Iowa, and educated at Iowa University, she landed the lead role of 'Joan of Arc' in Otto Preminger's ...

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  4. Jul 21, 2018 · Photo by Bob Willoughby. Jean Seberg and François Moreuil, 1958. While making Bonjour Tristesse on the French Riviera Seberg met and soon got engaged to a young lawyer called François Moreuil. She would later say that she became attracted to him because he seemed sophisticated and knew how to choose the right wine.

  5. Seberg and Gary sued Newsweek for libel and won, with $20,000 in damages, but the actress remained in constant fear. “She came to visit us right after [the funeral],” says Seberg’s sister, Mary Ann Seberg. “She was completely distraught, withdrawn. I think she was in utter disbelief, too, that her life could be destroyed by something ...

  6. Sep 10, 1979 · PARIS, Sept. 9 (Reuters) — Jean Seberg, the American actress whose body was found last night in a car on a Paris street, left a suicide note complaining of depression, the police said today. The ...

  7. Nov 27, 1983 · Seberg As Saint. By Peter Osnos. November 26, 1983 at 7:00 p.m. EST. LONDON -- The life of Jean Seberg was a latter-day American dream, a nightmare actually, that started happily enough in ...

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