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2 unusual facts about Colette


Colette de Jouvenel

Colette de Jouvenel, also known as Bel-Gazou, July 1913 - 1981, was the daughter of French writer Colette and her second husband, Henri de Jouvenel.

Monte Carlo Baby

Most Hepburn biographies indicate that it was during the filming of this movie that Hepburn was first discovered by the playwright Colette and chosen for the lead role in the play Gigi, which would lead to Hepburn launching her acting career in Hollywood.


Anatole de Monzie

He was also connected to various French writers and intellectuals of the time, including Colette, Roland Dorgelès, Lucien Febvre and Pierre Benoit, whom he introduced to the Lot, especially the little town of Saint-Céré, where the writer wrote several of his works.

Any Number Can Die

It starred Nicholas (Chuck), Colette Bablon (Judy), Susan Kaslow (Zenia), Charles Dickens (Roger Masters), Victoria Camargo (Celia Lathrop), M. Emmet Walsh (T.J. Lathrop), Peter von Mayrhauser (Edgars), Elizabeth Franz (Ernestine Wintergreen), Barbara Greacen (Sally VanViller), Anthony Dingman (Carter Forstman), Nick Masi Jr. (Jack Regent), and Fred Carmichael (Hannibal Hix).

Armida Publications

They have translated works from the likes of Roger Willemsen and Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, and have published titles by, among others, Nora Najarian, Elmos Konis, Lina Ellina, Klitos Ioannides, Chrysanthos Chrysanthou, Eve Meleagrou, Colette Ni Reammon Ioannidou and Baret Yacoubian.

Beyond Black

The book's central character is a medium named Alison Hart who, along with her assistant/business partner/manager, Colette, takes her one woman psychic show on the road, travelling to venues around the Home Counties, and providing her audience with a point of contact between this world and the next.

Cafe Colette

Cafe Colette is a 1937 British thriller film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Paul Cavanagh, Greta Nissen and Sally Gray.

Chaos and Desire

The film also stars Jean-Nicolas Verreault as Marc Vandal, a local pilot whose wife's recent death in a plane crash may be central to the tidal mystery; Julie Gayet as Catherine Rolland, Alice's lesbian friend from college who helps her investigate; and Geneviève Bujold as Colette Lasalle, the owner of the local diner who is convinced that the mystery has a supernatural explanation.

Charles Armytage-Moore

Her daughter Lady Constance Malleson, was a writer and actress (appearing as Colette O'Niel) and long-time lover of Bertrand Russell the philosopher.

Christophe Brunnquell

The popularity of Purple helped boosting his own career, and since then he has been working with art direction and design consultancy for, among others, Louis Vuitton, the Venice Biennale, Le Figaro’s fashion guide, Fabien Baron, Colette, Balenciaga, Céline, Cosmic Wonder, and Zucca.

Colette Bonheur

Colette Bonheur, whose real name is Colette Chailler, is a Quebec singer born in Montreal on September 20, 1927 and died in Freeport (Bahamas) on October 15, 1966.

Colette Deréal

Colette Deréal (born Colette Denise de Glarélial, 22 September 1927 in Saint-Cyr-l'École, Seine-et-Oise (now Yvelines), France and died 12 April 1988 in Monaco) was a French actress and singer.

Colette Hiller

2011 also saw SingLondon and Colette Hiller's involvement with Keep Britain Tidy in the form of the singing bins initiative.

Colette Hume

Colette Hume is the Education Correspondent for BBC Wales Today as well as a network stand-in for Wales Correspondent Wyre Davies for BBC News network services.

Colette Peignot

Her works were published posthumously against the will of her brother, Charles Peignot, by her nephew, the poet Jérôme Peignot (who thought of Colette as a “diagonal mother”).

Colette Trudeau

Colette’s song "I Don't Wanna Know" was added to the rotation on CHUM radio stations across Canada in January 2008 with Colette winning the ‘Up and Coming Artist of the Month’.

Dora Kallmus

Her subjects included Josephine Baker, Tamara de Lempicka, Alban Berg, Niddy Impekoven, Maurice Chevalier, Colette, and other dancers, actors, painters, and writers.

Erik Parker

He has had solo exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut; the De Appel in Amsterdam; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Colette in Paris; Honor Fraser in Los Angeles; and Galleri Faurschou in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood

In 1917 The Aldershot community came under the leadership of Mother Colette, received permission to take postulants.

I'll Go to Bed at Noon

Set in the north London suburb of Palmers Green in the 1970s, the story opens with Colette Jones attending the funeral of her elder brother's wife, followed by her failed attempts to save him from excessive drinking.

Kenneth Clark

The couple had three children: Alan, in 1928, and twins Colette (known as Celly) and Colin in 1932.

L'Officiel Hommes

Milan Vukmirovic, who helped launch the mother of all concept stores, Colette, in 1997 and took the reins from Jil Sander when she left her label in the early 2000s also the creative director of Trussardi, has added another dimension to fashion.

La Basoche

As the king of the basochians is required to be a bachelor, he hides the existence of a wife, Colette, whom he has left behind in Chevreuse.

Mathurin Méheut

Between world wars, he illustrated books for authors including Colette, Maurice Genevoix, and Pierre Loti, and created ceramics at Henriot in Quimper, at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, and at Villeroy & Boch in Sarre.

Michel del Castillo

Influenced by Miguel de Unamuno and Fyodor Dostoevsky, his books received many literary prizes, namely Prix Chateaubriand for Le Silence des Pierres (1975); Renaudot for la Nuit du décret (1981); Prix Maurice Genevoix for Rue des Archives (1994); Prix de l’Écrit Intime for Mon frère l’Idiot (1995); and prix Femina for Colette, une Certaine France (2001).

Mimobot

The MIMOBOT line can be found at stores like the MoMA, Kidrobot, Giant Robot, Colette, and other lifestyle institutions worldwide.

Patrick Delcroix

Patrick Delcroix, born February 8, 1963, in Pau/France, dancer and choreographer, was educated at the Centre International de Danse Rosella Hightower in Cannes and the Ecole de danse Colette Soriano in Orthez, France.

Proenza Schouler

Proenza Schouler is sold in over 100 of the most exclusive retail outlets worldwide, including Barneys New York, Bergdorf Goodman, Harvey Nichols, Colette, and Joyce.

Roger Senhouse

The firm translated several works by the French novelist Colette and The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir.

Sheena Colette

Ms. Colette has appeared in LoCash Cowboy's music video "Here Comes Summer" directed by Brian Lazzaro of Stroudavarious Records, Thalia's "Ten Paciencia" directed by Emilio Estefan,and Alejandra Tejada's "Indomable" .

Thami El Glaoui

He visited the European capitals often, while his visitors at Marrakech included Winston Churchill, Colette, Maurice Ravel, Charlie Chaplin.

The Dø

They kept on working for cinema (The Passenger, awarded at the Festival d'Angers and the Festival d'Aubagne, Wild Camp, and Darling), dance (Prologue, Perle and Cinderella by Juha-Pekka Marsalo, as well as poetry lectures by Carolyn Carlson) and theatre (Laure by Colette Peignot).


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