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Catherine Deneuve: Jacques Demy
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Deneuve was born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac, as one of four daughters to French stage and film actor Maurice Dorléac and actress Renée Deneuve. She made her screen debut at the age of 13, with a role in the 1956 film Les Collégiennes, and went on to make a string of films with directors such as Roger Vadim before getting her breakthrough role in Jacques Demy's musical, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964).
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Catherine Deneuve's incandescent loveliness infuses every frame of Jacques Demy's enchanting '60s musical. Young lovers Genevieve (Deneuve) and Guy (Nino Castelnuovo) are separated when Guy's call to military service sees him despatched to Algeria.
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Jacques Demy gave Deneuve her breakthrough role in this charmingly romantic film-opera. She plays Geneviève, a 17-year-old shopgirl who falls in love with Guy Foucher (Nino Castelnuovo), a 20-year-old car mechanic. When she falls pregnant with Guy's child, she is forced to choose between waiting for him to return from military service in Algeria or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
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