1. – Simone Signoret, La Vie devant soi (US: Madame Rosa), France, 1977. Realisateur Claude Berri preferred to quit rather than tell the Roumanian diva that her tests showed that her magic no longer worked on-screen at 83. La Popesco made her first film in 1911, but none since 1960. Stage mannerisms has taken over… Israeli director Moshé Mizrahi chose Signoret for his version, winning the Best Film Oscar.
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