It was the home of Simone Signoret and Yves Montand, after whom the village's main street, the rue Yves Montand, is named.
Simone Signoret won an Emmy for outstanding lead actress for her performance in "A Small Rebellion" (1966).
A Lagosian by birth, he studied acting at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, earning a diploma in 1965, after which he appeared in many shows on the London Stage, including the Royal Court Theatre production of Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel, and Shakespeare's Macbeth, with the late Sir Alec Guinness as Macbeth and the late Simone Signoret as Lady Macbeth.
Nina Simone | Simone de Beauvoir | Simone Signoret | Simone Weil | Simone Martini | Gail Simone | Simone Perrotta | Simone Beck | Mark Simone | Simone Young | Simone Veil | Simone Maludrottu | Simone Lovell | Simone Kermes | Simone Fernando Sacconi | Simone Dinnerstein | Simone Buchanan | Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir | Albert J. Simone | Victor Antoine Signoret | Simone Waisbard | Simone Thomalla | Simone Stella | Simone Simons | Simone Simon | Simone Sello | Simone Schwarz-Bart | Simone Moro | Simone McAullay | Simone Mantia |
She conducted interviews with French cultural figures such as Johnny Hallyday, Alain Delon, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Bernard-Henri Lévy, and Elie Wiesel.
It was directed by Sidney Lumet from a script by Paul Dehn, and starred James Mason as Charles Dobbs, (le Carré had sold the use of the name George Smiley with the rights to The Spy Who Came in from the Cold), Harry Andrews as Mendel, Simone Signoret as Elsa Fennan and Maximilian Schell as Dieter Frey.
It is a Belle Époque tragedy, the story of an ill-fated love affair between characters played by Simone Signoret and Serge Reggiani.
Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives - a roguish adventurer (Georges Marchal), a local hooker (Simone Signoret), a priest (Michel Piccoli), an aging diamond miner (Charles Vanel) and his deaf-mute daughter (Michèle Girardon) - are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle.
During her career, she appeared with all the great stars of French cinema, including Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Raimu, Jeanne Moreau, Danielle Darrieux, Micheline Presle, Paul Meurisse, Gérard Philipe, Louis Jouvet, Michel Simon, Simone Signoret, Fernandel, Jean-Louis Barrault.
His first Hebrew poem-book "The Hart Paces" came out in 1998, and in 2003, he published two more books "Forbidden Songs" and a prose book, "Jews Against their Will", that dealt with the relationship between famous figures and their Jewish identity, among them: French singer, Barbara, the actress, Simone Signoret, the psychiatrist Bruno Bettelheim and Romain Gary.
Since its inception, the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti has been awarded to many of the greatest names in French cinema who went on to national and international success such as Micheline Presle, Simone Signoret, Annie Girardot, Geneviève Bujold, Audrey Tautou and Isabelle Adjani.