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2 unusual facts about Jean Seberg


Five Day Lover

Claire (Jean Seberg), a young Englishwoman, lives in Paris with her staid husband, Georges (François Périer), a government archivist, and their two small children.

Operation Leopard

The late Jean Seberg had filmed scenes on location for the film but was replaced after her death by another American actress, Mimsy Farmer who reshot Seberg's scenes.


David Ryall

In 1983 he worked on 'A Matter of the Officers' and Jean Seberg with Julian Barry who, despite Ryall missing the press night of the latter due to misjudging a step from a lift onto the stage and breaking his ankle during a blackout, remains a lifelong friend.

Hakim Jamal

Jamal wrote From the Dead Level, a memoir of his life and memories of Malcolm X. He was romantically involved with several high-profile women, notably Jean Seberg, Diana Athill and Gale Benson.

Sleepy Jones

The line was inspired by the lifestyles of artists like David Hockney, Pablo Picasso, and Jean Seberg.


see also

Mary Beth Hurt

Hurt also played Jean Seberg, in voice-over, in Mark Rappaport's 1995 documentary From the Journals of Jean Seberg.

New York Herald Tribune

In Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960), the student and aspiring journalist Patricia (Jean Seberg) sells the New York Herald Tribune along the Champs-Élysées.