{"id":159753,"date":"2025-11-29T21:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/159753\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T21:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:32:06","slug":"french-actress-in-love-in-the-afternoon-was-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/159753\/","title":{"rendered":"French Actress in \u2018Love in the Afternoon\u2019 Was 99"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLise Bourdin, a leading French model in the 1940s and \u201950s who turned to acting and appeared with Gary Cooper<\/a>, Audrey Hepburn<\/a> and Maurice Chevalier in Billy Wilder<\/a>\u2019s Love in the Afternoon, has died. She was 99.<\/p>\n

\n\tBourdin died Friday \u2014 two days before her birthday \u2014 at her home in Labastide-d\u2019Armagnac, France, relatives told the AFP news service.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe brown-haired, blue-eyed Bourdin also co-starred with Sophia Loren in The River Girl (1954), with Linda Darnell and Vittorio De Sica in It Happens in Roma (1955) and, as a pressured fashion magazine editor who suffers a breakdown, with Eddie Constantine in Dishonorable Discharge (1957).<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the Paris-set romantic comedy Love in the Afternoon<\/a> (1957), written by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond in the first of their 12 screenplay collaborations, Bourdin portrayed one of the many girlfriends of American playboy Frank Flannigan (Cooper).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film, released by Allied Artists in the U.S., was a flop in America \u2014 perhaps moviegoers didn\u2019t buy into the romance between Hepburn and the much-older Cooper \u2014 but a big hit in Europe, where it went by the title\u00a0Ariane (the name of Hepburn\u2019s character).<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn on Nov. 30, 1925, in N\u00e9ris-les-Bains, Allier, France, Bourdin started out as a model after she met the brother of the owner of Claudine magazine; he saw her at a train station in Paris and followed her.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI made an appointment with [a photographer] and the cover was published immediately,\u201d she recalled in a 2017 interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tSoon, she was fronting such other magazines as Marie-Claire, Noir et Blanc and Harper\u2019s Bazaar and featured in Life in July 1946, with that weekly calling her a \u201cyoungster with a fresh country look\u201d and a \u201cParis sensation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFew French women have had two pages in Life. There was [Brigitte] Bardot, [Jeanne] Moreau and me,\u201d she noted. In 1948 during a visit to New York, she was heralded as the most photographed girl in France.<\/p>\n

\n\tBourdin had her first notable film role in Les Enfants de l\u2019amour (1953), directed by L\u00e9onide Moguy, and at the seventh annual Cannes Film Festival in 1954, she was seen around town with Robert Mitchum.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe ended her brief acting career after appearing in two films released in 1959, Quai des illusions, toplined by Gaby Morlay, and The Last Blitzkrieg, featuring Van Johnson, Dick York and Larry Storch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe press didn\u2019t like me, and I had a private life outside the artistic world,\u201d she said. \u201cI told myself that I would never have the career I deserved, so I stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe was married only once, very briefly to Brazilian industrialist Roberto Seabra, and then had a 30-year relationship with Raymond Marcellin, onetime Interior Minister of France, before his death in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lise Bourdin, a leading French model in the 1940s and \u201950s who turned to acting and appeared with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96228,96229,146,96230,85,399,46,5033],"class_list":["post-159753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-audrey-hepburn","tag-billy-wilder","tag-entertainment","tag-gary-cooper","tag-il","tag-international","tag-israel","tag-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}