According to Françoise Arnoul, (writing in her memoirs Animal doué de bonheur ISBN 2-7144-3244-1), Jane Fonda was the initial choice to play the role of Pierrette but Paramount-France grew less keen on the film the more they looked at it - they thought it too warm to communist ideology.
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She crosses first the path of an émigré Italian, nicknamed Beau Masque, (Luigi Diberti), a truck driver.
Beau Bridges | The Masque of the Red Death | Beau Hill | Beau Sia | Beau Geste | The Beau Brummels | Beau Brummell | Beau Walker | Beau Smith | Beau Biden | Just a Little (The Beau Brummels song) | Beau Waters | Beau Dommage | Beau Bokan | The Masque of the Red Death (film) | Beau Walker (Celebrity) | Beau Nash | The Masque Of The Red Death | The Masque of Anarchy | The Masque at Kenilworth | The Last Remake of Beau Geste | The Beau Brummels, Volume 2 | Old Rosin the Beau | Le Ton beau de Marot | Le Beau Serge | ''La Femme au Masque'' by Henri Gervex | Job: A Masque for Dancing | Il doit faire beau là-bas | Heinie Beau | Beck in 1969 with his famous ''Masque de Saint-John Perse |