Michele Morgan: 5 things you did not know about the icon of French cinema

Died at the age of 96 on Wednesday, December 20, Michèle Morgan was an icon of French cinema. Here are five little-known anecdotes about one chosen ten times by the public ” the most popular French actress .”

His house in Hollywood, the scene of a horrible murder
When she arrived in Hollywood in 1941, Michèle Morgan built his house at 10050 Cielo Drive. An address where a historical murder will take place. Members of the sect are the serial killer brutally assassinate in 1969 Sharon Tate, wife of Roman Polanski , while 8 months pregnant.
Its name is inspired by the actress of a bank
At birth it is called Simone Roussel. She then decided to take the name ” Morgan ” in reference to the US bank. Her name is chosen after one of her partners in the Simon class (named Michel) told her to wait for her Michèle.
She had an actor son
Mike, she had with the American actor Bill Marshall, was seen in James Bond (Colonel Scott in Moonraker , it’s him) … He also played the role of Alan in McIntosh Great Mop directed by Gérard Oury, the companion of Michèle Morgan . A few years later, we also perceive in Navarro and in the holiday of love . Died at age 60 in 2005, he is the half brother of Tonie Marshall , the director of Venus Beauty and the daddy of the former model Sarah Marshall .
It only took one year every four years
Born February 29, 2010 and interrogated in France Sunday on his report to old age, Michèle Morgan said: ” I have no problem with my age. I’m lucky to be very fit. I walk a lot, sit still in a suit, still touches the ground with the palm of my hands, goes several times a day the stairs of my apartment without effort. Sport keeps me in shape … I have always lived healthy, I eat balanced and sleep 8 hours a day. I still have a weakness for savarin chantilly, and in the evening, I allow myself a small glass of Bordeaux! “. She saw all the same in that date of birth, a fate the nod and the privilege to age four times slower than the others.
She called business ties
Known for its elegance and class, Michèle Morgan said appalled the late 70s by the ties which are then available on the market. It reacts by creating its own line, the Michèle Morgan Ties . Made with selected silks, with a great research in the patterns and luminosity of colors, these ties definitely cut off the rest of what exists at the time. But this is a full-time job and the Michèle Morgan Ties will have an ephemeral existence. Which does not prevent some collectors packed to look for them today in all the vide-granaries organized in the capital.