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Zouzou Hamdi El Hakim
Zouzou may refer to: * Zouzou (model) (Danièle Ciarlet), model, actress and singer * ''Zouzou'' (film), 1934 film directed by Marc Allégret * '' Zouzous'', a French children's programming block {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zouzou (model)
Zouzou (born Danièle Ciarlet on November 29, 1943) is an actress, model, singer and icon of the 1960s and early 1970s. She is known largely for her lead role in Éric Rohmer's '' Love in the Afternoon''. The screen name "Zouzou" reportedly stems from her ''zézaiement'' (lisp) of the consonants 's','j' and 'z'. Personal life Zouzou obtained her baccalauréat at 14, then enrolled at the Artistic Training Centre of the Académie Charpentier. The news magazine ''Paris Match'' baptised her ''" la twisteuse"''. She represented the liberated young women, who were active during the protests of May 1968, as indeed Zouzou was. She moved to swinging London with Brian Jones, but left him and returned to Paris. Career After appearing in some short films, Zouzou came to international prominence in 1972 in Rohmer's ''Love in the Afternoon''. She was featured in French film and TV throughout the 1970s. In 1978, she left Paris for the Antilles where she remained for seven years as her care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zouzou (film)
''Zouzou'' is a French film by Marc Allégret released in 1934. Josephine Baker, who plays the title character, was the first black woman to play the leading role in a major motion picture. It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris, with sets designed by the art directors Lazare Meerson and Alexandre Trauner. Plot Zouzou and Jean are presented in the Cirque Romarin, a traveling circus, as 10-year-old twins: she's dark, he's light. Père Melé ( Papa) adopted them after their fathers—both performers in the circus—died. Cut to Manila. Jean has become a sailor, with at least one girl in every port. He writes to Zouzou, who lives in Toulon with Papa Melé, now that the circus has failed. The fleet returns. and Jean, confined to quarters for a week, jumps ship in the middle of the night. In the brig, a friend tells him of work as an electrician in a music hall in Paris. Zouzou is very much in love with Jean, although he still thinks of her as his sister. The family moves to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |