- Sue Lyon, Lolita, 1962.
- Catherine Deneuve, Les parapluies de Cherbourg, France-West Germany, 1963. French auteur Jacques Demy wanted her – opposite her newly wed husband, rock idol Johnny Hallyday. “But they didn’t want to do it, neither one or the other.”
- Anna Karina, Pierrot la fou, France, 1965. Bilious auteur Jean-Luc Godard wanted her – opposite Richard Burton, before signing Jean-Paul Belmondo and Mme Godard: Anna Karina. Nine years on, Godard had better luck in landing Sylvie’s first husband, rock idol Johnny Hallyday, when he was Nathaie Baye’s husband, for Detective.
- Chantal Goya, Masculin Féminin, France-Sweden, 1965. Godard tries again… One Paris pop star for another as Jean-Luc Godard halted his 21st film the day before shooting… He then dropped the adults – Italian Marilu Tolo and Michel Piccoli – for two youngsters: poppet Goya and the Truffaut find, Jean-Pierre Léaud, as “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola.” Sylvie missed nothing; Ingmar Bergman called it “a classic case of Godard: mind-numbingly boring.”
- Brigitte Fossey, La Scarlatine, France, 1982. She loved auteur Gabriel Aghion’s script but not was available at the times required. When ex-casting man Dominique Besnehard became her cinema agent, he kept fighting same cliche: “But she’s a singer, not an actress!” (And Aznavour, Chevalier, Dutronc, Madonna, Montand, Sinatra, etc?), Director Jean-Claude Brisseau changed such tawdty opinions with L’Ange noir, 1994.
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