Roland Petit created "Le Jeune Homme et la Mort" for his wife who became famous for playing the title role in which film?
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Le jeune homme et la mort Le Jeune Homme et la Mort is a ballet by Roland Petit, choreographed in 1946 to Bach's "Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor", BWV 582, with a one-act libretto by Jean Cocteau. It tells the story of a young man driven to suicide by his faithless lover. Sets were by Georges Wakhévitch and costumes variously reported as being by Karinska or Cocteau. Petit is purported to have created "Le Jeune Homme et la Mort" for his wife Zizi Jeanmaire, but it was danced by Jean Babilée and Nathalie Philippart at its 25 June 1946 premiere at the Ballets des Champs-Elysées with costumes by Tom Keogh.
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Zizi Jeanmaire Zizi Jeanmaire (born Renée Marcelle Jeanmaire on 29 April 1924 in Paris, France) is a French ballet dancer and widow of renowned dancer and choreographer Roland Petit. She became famous in the 1950s after playing the title role in the ballet "Carmen", produced in London in 1949, and went on to appear in several Hollywood films.
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Irène Tunc Irène Tunc (25 September 1935 – 16 January 1972) was a French actress and model. She was crowned Miss France in 1954. She was the wife of film director Alain Cavalier and she died in a car crash in 1972. She appeared in 35 films and television shows between 1955 and 1971.
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Françoise Lebrun Françoise Lebrun is a French actress. She has appeared in many movies, and is especially known for her role as Veronika in "The Mother and the Whore" (1973, directed by Jean Eustache). She also worked for, amongst others, Paul Vecchiali, Marguerite Duras and Lucas Belvaux, and is the subject of the documentary "Françoise Lebrun, les voies singulières" (2008). In a Variety review of the 2004 Vecchiali film "A Vot' Bon Coeur", Lisa Nesselson called her "a supreme master of the sustained monologue."
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Mon père avait raison Mon père avait raison is a 1996 French TV movie directed by Roger Vadim starring Marie-Christine Barrault, Claude Rich and Nicolas Vaude. It was based on a play by Sacha Guitry.
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Julian L'Estrange Julian L'Estrange (1880 - 1918) born Julian Boyle was an English born stage actor who later made a handful of silent films for Paramount Pictures. He met fellow performer Constance Collier in 1905 and after years of courtship married her in 1912. They were a well known married stage couple on both sides of the Atlantic. He died in the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918. Collier never got over his early death and mentions him in her 1929 autobiography "Harlequinade". She never remarried.
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Sandra Julien Sandra Julien (born Sandra Calaputti 14 February 1950 in Toulon, France) is a French actress. Her acting career only lasted a few years, but one of the films she is remembered for is "Le Frisson des Vampires" ("The Shiver of the Vampires"), a film by director Jean Rollin.
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My Wife Is Formidable My Wife Is Formidable (original title "Ma femme est formidable") is a French comedy film from 1951, directed by André Hunebelle, written by Jean Halain, starring Fernand Gravey and Louis de Funès.
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Lola (1961 film) Lola, is a 1961 romantic drama film, the debut film directed by Jacques Demy as a tribute to director Max Ophüls and is described by Demy as a "musical without music". Anouk Aimée starred in the title role. The film was restored and re-released by Demy's widow, French filmmaker Agnès Varda.
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My Seven Little Sins My Seven Little Sins (French: "J'avais sept filles" , Italian: "I sette peccati di papà" ), released in UK as I Had Seven Daughters, is a 1954 French-Italian comedy film co-written and directed by Jean Boyer and starring Maurice Chevalier and Delia Scala. It is based on a comedy play of Aldo De Benedetti, previously adapted by Nunzio Malasomma in the film "We Were Seven Sisters".
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Line Noro Line Noro (22 February 1900 – 4 November 1985) was a French stage and film actress. During the 1930s she played glamorous, often exotic, women in films such as "Pépé le Moko". Between 1945 and 1966 Noro was a member of the Comédie Française. She was married to the film director  André Berthomieu.
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Françoise Lugagne Françoise Lugagne (1914–1991) was a French stage, film and television actress. She was married to the Belgian actor Raymond Rouleau and appeared alongside him in the 1945 fashion house drama "Paris Frills" as his spurned love interest.
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France Dhélia France Dhélia (born Franceline Berthe Léontine Délia Benoît; November 9, 1894 – May 6, 1964) was a French film actress. Dhélia appeared in more than forty films, mostly in the silent era. Many of her appearances were in the films of the director Gaston Roudès.
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And God Created Woman (1988 film) And God Created Woman is a 1988 film directed by Roger Vadim and starring Rebecca De Mornay and Vincent Spano. It has the same title as the 1956 French film "Et Dieu… créa la femme" ("And God created woman") starring Brigitte Bardot, also directed by Vadim, but has a completely different story.
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Jean Peters Elizabeth Jean Peters (October 15, 1926 – October 13, 2000) was an American actress, known as a star of 20th Century Fox in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and as the second wife of Howard Hughes. Although possibly best remembered for her siren role in "Pickup on South Street" (1953), Peters was known for her resistance to being turned into a sex symbol. She preferred to play unglamorous, down-to-earth women.
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Miquette (1934 film) Miquette (French: Miquette et sa mère) is a 1934 French comedy film directed by Henri Diamant-Berger and André Gillois  and Henri Rollan. It stars Blanche Montel, Michel Simon and Roland Toutain.
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Two English Girls Two English Girls (original French title: Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent, UK Title: Anne and Muriel), is a 1971 French romantic drama film directed by François Truffaut and adapted from a 1956 novel of the same name by Henri-Pierre Roché. It stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Claude, Kika Markham as Anne, and Stacey Tendeter as Muriel. Truffaut restored 20 minutes of footage, which fills out the characters, before his death in 1984.
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Jeanne Julia Bartet Jeanne Julia Bartet (1854 – 28 October 1941), a French actress, was born in Paris and trained at the Conservatoire. In 1872 she began a successful career at the Vaudeville, and in 1879 was engaged at the "Comédie-Française", of which she became a sociétaire in 1880. For many years she played the chief parts both in tragedy and comedy. She was known for Louis XI (1909) and Rival de son Père (1909). She had a season in London in 1908, when her consummate art was displayed in a number of parts.
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Suzanne Grandais Suzanne Grandais (June 14, 1893 - August 28, 1920) was a French film actress popular during the World War I years. She was called "The Mary Pickford of France" because of her resemblance to the American superstar Mary Pickford. She was also compared to American serial queen Pearl White. She worked often with directors Léonce Perret and Louis Feuillade. Grandais was killed in a car crash in August 1920 while shooting scenes for a serial.
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The Nude Woman (1932 film) The Nude Woman (French: La femme nue) is a 1932 French drama film directed by Jean-Paul Paulin and starring Florelle, Raymond Rouleau and Constant Rémy. The film is based on a play by Henry Bataille which has been adapted on several occasions.
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Germaine Dulac Germaine Dulac (] ; born Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider; 17 November 1882 – 20 July 1942) was a French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic. She was born in Amiens and moved to Paris in early childhood. A few years after her marriage she embarked on a journalistic career in a feminist magazine, and later became interested in film. With the help of her husband and friend she founded a film company and directed a few commercial works before slowly moving into Impressionist and Surrealist territory. She is best known today for her Impressionist film, "La Souriante Madame Beudet" ("The Smiling Madam Beudet", 1922/23), and her Surrealist experiment, "La Coquille et le Clergyman" ("The Seashell and the Clergyman", 1928). Her career as filmmaker suffered after the introduction of sound film and she spent the last decade of her life working on newsreels for Pathé and Gaumont.
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Clio Goldsmith Clio Goldsmith (previously Clio Shand when she was married to  Mark Shand) (born 16 June 1957) is a French former actress, appearing mostly as a Femme fatale in some films of the early 1980s. She is a member of the prominent Goldsmith family through her father ecologist Edward Goldsmith.