Micheline Presle has passed away. The French actress starred in many films throughout her career, but audiences will remember her best for starring in the infamous Devil incarnate.
That film turned out to be controversial at the time thanks to its content. However, the National Board of Critics favored the film by voting it one of the best films of that year. Presle played Marthe, a nurse married to a World War I soldier. While her husband is away, Marthe begins an affair with a younger man that results in her pregnancy.
Released in 1947, the film also launched Presle’s career. She would later star in several different films and begin a career in Hollywood. The actress changed her name from Micheline Nicole Julia to Micheline Presle. She signed a contract with 20th Century Fox in 1950.
He ended up starring alongside John Garfield in Jean Negulesco’s film. under my skin same year. She would continue starring American guerrilla in the Philippines (1950), and in The Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951).
Micheline Presle had a long career
Presle would later star in the film centered on the Nobel Prize. The award in 1963. That film also starred Paul Newman. Presle played a scientist in the film. A year earlier he appeared in If a man answers with Bobby Darin.
Presle turned to television in the late 1960s. He starred in the French comedy. Les Saintes Cheries from 1965 to 1971. However, he would return to the cinema for The legend of the French king in 1971. He would continue with Samuel Fuller. Thieves after dark in 1984 and Alain Resnais I want to go home 1989. For the latter, Presle earned a César nomination, the French equivalent of the Academy Award.
In the end, Presle did not win the award, but the French public recognized his contributions to the industry. In 2004, she won an honorary César for her long and illustrious career, oscillating between Hollywood and French cinema.
Presle’s son confirmed that he died in Nogent-sur-Marne, a suburb of Paris. He did not reveal the cause of Presle’s death. The actress was 101 years old at the time of her death. Presley had a daughter, director Tonie Marshall, who previously died in 2020 at the age of 68. She was known for becoming the first director to win a César for Venus Beauty Institute.
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