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Jean Seberg
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13 November 1938 - 30 August 1979
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Jean Seberg was born on November 13, 1938 in Marshalltown (Iowa, USA). While studying at the University of Iowa, she played in an amateur theater troupe, she attracted the attention of director Otto Preminger, who chose her from 18,000 applicants for the title role in his film based on the play by Bernard Shaw “Saint Jeanne”. The film was released in 1957, and despite the active advertising, it failed. The following year, Preminger again shot the actress in the film adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s
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Jean Seberg was born on November 13, 1938 in Marshalltown (Iowa, USA). While studying at the University of Iowa, she played in an amateur theater troupe, she attracted the attention of director Otto Preminger, who chose her from 18,000 applicants for the title role in his film based on the play by Bernard Shaw “Saint Jeanne”. The film was released in 1957, and despite the active advertising, it failed. The following year, Preminger again shot the actress in the film adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s novel “Goodbye, Sadness”, and this film, in which Seberg demonstrated her acting talent, also turned out to be not too successful. Then she starred in the UK in the film Jack Arnold “Growling Mouse”, and soon Jean-Luc Godard, then a famous French film critic, invited Jean Seberg to star in his debut film “On the Last Breath”, where her partner was Jean-Paul Belmondo. Studio "Columbia", with which at that time she was signed a contract, agreed to release the actress for almost nothing. When Godard’s film, now considered a classic of the French “new wave”, became widely known, the studio hastily took the actress in a new project, although in the future it failed to offer something corresponding to her potential. Therefore, the most notable films with the participation of Jean Seberg were shot in Europe - "The Lover for Five Days" by Philip De Broca, "The Attempt" by Yves Boisse, "The Wild Duck" by Hans Geisendörfer. At home, she became famous for her active fight for civil rights and support for the extremist organization Black Panthers. She was Romain Gary's wife. Jean Seberg died under rather mysterious circumstances - on September 8, 1979, she was found dead in a Paris suburb, the official version of death is an overdose of barbiturates.