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Pascale Petit was spotted by French actress
Françoise Lugagne, while she worked
as a beautician. She notized the young girl's beauty on the spot - proposing
to her, to come and try to get a part in her husband's (director of
cinéma) film "Les sorcières de Salem" in 1956 - who was
looking for a young girl. Pascale Petit was extremely popular in the late
fifties and sixties and she was compared as the new
Brigitte Bardot. She
played in many movies the female leading role. She followed her second
husband Giani Esposito to Italy, and gave birth to two children. She went
also to Hollywood where she played for example beside Ray Danton and only returned to
French cinema in 1971.
In 1957 Pascale Petit was given the
Susanne
Bianchetti AWARD for best
hopeful newcomer in her role as Mic, in
Les Tricheurs
directed by
Marcel Carné.
Some of her partners were, Jean-François
Porron, Jacques Charrier, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Dany Saval,
Pierre Brice...
Pascale Petit is the mother of Doushka Esposito,
who is a very popular singer and Animator for
French Television.
In our beloved series
"Catherine, il suffit d'amour, Pascale Petit
played "Catherine's" motherly friend, "Sara. We
adored her in that most important role, what
would our heroine done without her? A character,
even Arnaud de Montsalvy, bowed his head!
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Pascale Petit has written a book
which will be published on 27
October 2022
UNE VIE SANS TRICHER *
Foreword by Henri-Jean Servat
SYNOPSIS
Pascale Petit unveils a touching and
sincere autobiography. "Une vie sans
tricher" talks openly about her
magnificent career as an actress,
but also about her doubts, her loves...
More than a pretty brunette adored
by the public, Pascale Petit is a
profound being, "in perpetual search
of the absolute", writes Henry-Jean
Servat in his preface. The actress
never took acting lessons. The
director Raymond Rouleau revealed
her in the film "The Witches of
Salem", alongside Yves Montand,
Simone Signoret, Mylène Demongeot...
Marcel Carné made her an
international star with the cult
film "Les Tricheurs". The "BB brune"
has worked with Henri Verneuil, Marc
Allegret, Édouard Molinaro,
Alexandre Astruc, Michel Boisrond,
Alberto Lattuada... Among her
partners: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain
Delon, Laurent Terzieff, Ray Danton,
Roger Moore, Daniel Gélin, Roger
Hanin, Jeffrey Hunter, Giani
Esposito, whom she married in
1960...
She has also worked for the theatre
and television.
Behind the artist lies an aesthete
in search of spirituality and
authenticity.
Source/ Website Éditions Glyphe
* book so far only available in
French! |
February 27, 2017
Happy Birthday !
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Dear Pascale
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Pascale Petit during the shooting of Catherine,
il suffit d'un amour in1986.
One of the hundreds of souvenirs in Dame Marion
Sarraut's, director of the the TV-Series
Marianne, Catherine, The Lure of the Falcon and
the Florentine.
Thank you so much again dear Dame Marion for
sharing this with me/us the Sarraut/Benzoni
family.
Je vous embrasse affectueusement Linda |
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The beautiful Pascale Petit has been in numerous films and other production
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here is a link to
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