Claude Marcelle Jorré, better known as Claude Jade (; 8 October 1948 – 1 December 2006), was a French actress. She starred as
Christine
Christine may refer to:
People
* Christine (name), a female given name
Film
* ''Christine'' (1958 film), based on Schnitzler's play ''Liebelei''
* ''Christine'' (1983 film), based on King's novel of the same name
* ''Christine'' (1987 fil ...
in
François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut ( , ; ; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. After a career of more th ...
's three films ''
Stolen Kisses'' (1968), ''
Bed and Board'' (1970) and ''
Love on the Run'' (1979). Jade acted in theatre, film and television. Her film work outside France included the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
, the
United States
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,
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
,
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to ...
,
Germany
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and
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...
.
Early career
The daughter of university professors, Jade spent three years at
Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated)
* it, Digione
* la, Diviō or
* lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920.
The earlie ...
's Conservatory of Dramatic Art. In 1964 she played on stage 40 times the part of Agnès in
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (, ; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, , ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and world ...
's ''L'école des femmes''.
In 1966 she won the Prix de Comédie for
Jean Giraudoux
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (; 29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II.
His ...
's stage play ''
Ondine'', performed at the Comédie Boulogne. She moved to Paris and became a student of Jean-Laurent Cochet at the Edouard VII theater, and began acting in television productions, including a leading role in TV series ''
Les oiseaux rares''.
Films with François Truffaut
While performing as Frida in
Pirandello's ''Henri IV'', in a production by
Sacha Pitoëff
Sacha Pitoëff (born Alexandre Pitoëff; 11 March 1920 – 21 July 1990) was a Swiss-born French actor and stage director.
Early life and education
Pitoëff was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on 11 March 1920, the son of Russian-born parents ...
at the
Théâtre Moderne, Jade was discovered by
New Wave film director
François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut ( , ; ; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. After a career of more th ...
. He was "completely taken by her beauty, her manners, her kindness, and her ''joie de vivre''",
and cast her in the role of Christine Darbon in ''
Stolen Kisses'' (''Baisers volés'', 1968). During the filming, Truffaut fell in love with her, and there was talk of marriage. Truffaut dubbed Claude Jade “French cinema’s little sweetheart” and the director and his muse were soon a couple in real life, although Truffaut changed his mind about marrying her the night before their wedding.
American critic
Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael (; June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for ''The New Yorker'' magazine from 1968 to 1991. Known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated and sharply focused" reviews, Kael's opinions oft ...
wrote that Jade "seems a less ethereal, more practical
Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 22 October 1943), known professionally as Catherine Deneuve (, , ), is a French actress as well as an occasional singer, model, and producer, considered one of the greatest European actresses. She gained recogni ...
".
Playing the same character at different stages of her life, Jade appeared in three Truffaut films: loved from a distance in ''Stolen Kisses''; married and misled in ''
Bed and Board'' (''Domicile Conjugal'', 1970); and divorced but still on good terms in ''
Love on the Run'' (1979).
The late 1960s in film
Some months after Truffaut's ''
Stolen Kisses'' Claude Jade starred in
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 featur ...
's ''
Topaz
Topaz is a silicate mineral of aluminium and fluorine with the chemical formula Al Si O( F, OH). It is used as a gemstone in jewelry and other adornments. Common topaz in its natural state is colorless, though trace element impurities can mak ...
'' (1969), as Michèle Picard, a secret agent's anxious daughter, married to a reporter (
Michel Subor
Michel Subor (, born Mischa Subotzki; 2 February 1935 – 17 January 2022) was a French actor who gained initial fame with the starring role in Jean-Luc Godard's second feature, '' Le petit soldat'' (1960), but the French government banned it un ...
). Recommended to Hitchcock by Truffaut, she was 19 years old when cast, with
Dany Robin playing her mother. Hitchcock said he chose the two actresses to provide glamor, and later quipped, "Claude Jade is a rather quiet young lady, but I wouldn't guarantee
hatabout her behavior in a taxi". Jade recounted that they "talked in a Paris hotel about cooking, and I gave him my recipe for
soufflé and told him I liked ''
Strangers on a Train'', and that was that."
Hitchcock said she resembled his former star
Grace Kelly
Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an American actress who, after starring in several significant films in the early to mid-1950s, became Princess of Monaco by marrying Prince Rainier III in April 1956.
Kelly ...
, and in France she was a younger
Danielle Darrieux. Some of her scenes were deleted and restored for the director's cut of ''Topaz'' in 1999. ''Topaz'' was Jade's only Hollywood film.
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an Americ ...
offered her a seven-year contract, which she turned down reportedly because she preferred to work in French.
Director
Tony Richardson
Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and film director and producer whose career spanned five decades. In 1964, he won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film ''Tom Jones''.
Early ...
's film ''Nijinsky'' (a.k.a. ''The Dancer'') (1970), based on a screenplay by
Edward Albee
Edward Franklin Albee III ( ; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as '' The Zoo Story'' (1958), '' The Sandbox'' (1959), '' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (1962), '' A Delicate Balance'' (196 ...
, was canceled during pre-production by producer
Harry Saltzman. It was to have starred Jade as
Vaslav Nijinsky's wife, alongside
Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev ( ; Tatar/ Bashkir: Рудольф Хәмит улы Нуриев; rus, Рудо́льф Хаме́тович Нуре́ев, p=rʊˈdolʲf xɐˈmʲetəvʲɪtɕ nʊˈrʲejɪf; 17 March 19386 January 1993) was a Soviet ...
as Nijinsky and
Paul Scofield
David Paul Scofield (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008) was a British actor. During a six-decade career, Scofield achieved the US Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Academy Award, Emmy, and Tony for his work. He won the three awards in a seve ...
as his lover
Sergei Diaghilev
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev ( ; rus, Серге́й Па́влович Дя́гилев, , sʲɪˈrɡʲej ˈpavləvʲɪdʑ ˈdʲæɡʲɪlʲɪf; 19 August 1929), usually referred to outside Russia as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, pa ...
.
She had a leading role as Linda in ''
Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo'' (''Under the Sign of Monte Cristo'') by
André Hunebelle
André Hunebelle (1 September 1896 – 27 November 1985) was a French maître verrier (master glassmaker) and film director.
Master Glass Artist
After attending polytechnic school for mathematics, he became a decorator, a designer, and then a mas ...
, a modern version of Alexandre Dumas' novel. Here the 19 years young actress starred alongside French cinema's veterans like
Pierre Brasseur
Pierre Brasseur (22 December 1905 – 16 August 1972), born Pierre-Albert Espinasse, was a French actor.
Biography
The son of actors Georges Espinasse and Germaine Brasseur, the latter a cousin of Albert Brasseur; his grandfather, Jules B ...
and
Michel Auclair
Michel Auclair (born Vladimir Vujović, sr-cyr, Владимир Вујовић; 14 September 1922 – 7 January 1988) was an actor of Serbian and French ancestry, known best for his roles in French cinema.
Auclair was born to a Serbian father ...
.
Jade starred in
Édouard Molinaro
Édouard Molinaro (13 May 1928 – 7 December 2013) was a French film director and screenwriter.
Biography
He was born in Bordeaux, Gironde.
He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès (''Oscar'', '' Hibernatus''), '' My Uncle B ...
's ''
My Uncle Benjamin'' (''Mon oncle Benjamin'', 1969) alongside
Jacques Brel. As Manette she refuses Brel's advances until he produces a marriage contract. At the End Manette realizes she prefers happiness to a marriage contract after all.
Her career continued in
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to ...
, where she played a young English teacher who is fatally intrigued by a murderer (
Gérard Barray
Gérard Barray (born 2 November 1931 in Toulouse) is a French actor.
Early life and education
Barray's parents split up quickly and his mother, who came from Montauban decided to return to her hometown with her little boy. Around the age of 15, h ...
) in the 1969 film ''
The Witness''. Her fiancé is this movie was played by
Jean-Claude Dauphin
Jean-Claude Dauphin, born Claude Legrand on March 16, 1948 in Boulogne-Billancourt, is a French actor.
Biography
He is the son of actor Claude Dauphin and actress Maria Mauban, the grand-son of the poet Maurice Étienne Legrand and nephew ho ...
, to whom she was engaged at this time. Also in 1969 she starred as
Helena in a film adaptation of Shakespeare's ''
A Midsummer Night's Dream'' by
Jean-Christophe Averty
Jean-Christophe Averty (; 6 August 1928 – 4 March 2017) was a French television and radio director, and Satrap of the College of 'Pataphysique.
Many of his television productions from the 1960s were early examples of French video art. His studi ...
, ''
Le Songe d'une nuit d'été'' .
The 1970s in film and TV
In 1970 she reprised her part as Christine from ''
Stolen Kisses'' in Truffaut's ''
Bed and Board'' as a married woman. The Truffaut films influenced her type as lovingly gentle modern young woman in contemporary cinema, which she contrasted in ambivalent figures: Critic
Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – October 15, 2000) was an American film and theatre critic who served as the chief film critic for ''The New York Times'' from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 until his death in ...
praised her in work in
Gérard Brach
Gérard Brach (23 July 1927 – 9 September 2006) was a French screenwriter best known for his collaborations with the film directors Roman Polanski and Jean-Jacques Annaud. He directed two movies: ''La Maison'' and ''The Boat on the Grass''.
...
's ''
The Boat on the Grass
''The Boat on the Grass'' (french: Le Bateau sur l'herbe) is a 1971 French film directed by Gérard Brach. It was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.
Cast
* Claude Jade - Eleonore
* Jean-Pierre Cassel - David
* John McEnery - Oliver
* Va ...
'' (''Le bateau sur l'herbe'', 1971), in which she starred as Eleonore, a young girl between two friends (
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Jean-Pierre Cassel (born Jean-Pierre Crochon; 27 October 1932 – 19 April 2007) was a French actor.
Early life
Cassel was born Jean-Pierre Crochon in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, the son of Louise-Marguerite (née Fabrègue), an opera sin ...
,
John McEnery
John McEnery (1 November 1943 – 12 April 2019) was an English actor and writer.
Born in Birmingham, he trained (1962–1964) at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, playing, among others, Mosca in Ben Jonson's ''Volpone'' and Gaveston ...
). She starred in ''
Hearth Fires'' (''Les feux de la chandeleur'', 1972) as Laura, a daughter who wants to reconcile her parents (
Annie Girardot
Annie Suzanne Girardot (25 October 193128 February 2011) was a French actress. She often played strong-willed, independent, hard-working, and often lonely women, imbuing her characters with an earthiness and reality that endeared her to women und ...
,
Jean Rochefort) and who falls in love with her mother's best friend (
Bernard Fresson). Alongside
Robert Hossein
Robert Hossein (30 December 1927 – 31 December 2020) was a French film actor, director, and writer. He directed the 1982 adaptation of ''Les Misérables'' and appeared in '' Vice and Virtue'', '' Le Casse'', '' Les Uns et les Autres'' and '' ...
she played the priest's love Françoise in ''Forbidden Priests'' (''Prêtres interdits'', 1973). In ''
Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home may refer to:
Film
* Home, Sweet Home (1914 film), ''Home, Sweet Home'' (1914 film), a film about the life of John Howard Payne
* Home Sweet Home (1917 film), ''Home Sweet Home'' (1917 film), a British silent film
* Home Sweet ...
'' (1973), she played a hardened nurse who is changed by a love affair with a social worker (
Jacques Perrin
Jacques Perrin (born Jacques André Simonet; 13 July 1941 – 21 April 2022) was a French actor and film producer. He was occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet.
Early life
Jacques André Simonet was born on the Boulevard Port-Royal in P ...
).
Jade played a dual role in ''
The Choice'', 1976). She starred in three Italian films: as a private investigator in ''
Number One
Number One most commonly refers to:
* 1 (number)
Number One, No. 1, or #1 may also refer to:
Music Albums
* ''Number 1'' (Big Bang album), and the title song
* ''No. 1'' (BoA album), and the title song
* ''No.1'' (EP), by CLC
* ''n.1 ...
'' (1973), as Tiffany, the girlfriend of a private eye (
Frederick Stafford
Frederick Stafford (11 March 1928 – 28 July 1979) was a Czechoslovak-born actor. Born Friedrich Strobel von Stein, he spoke fluent Czech, German, English, French and Italian, and was a leading man in European spy-movies.
Biography Early life ...
, her father from ''Topaz'') in ''
La ragazza di via Condotti'' (1973), and as Maria Teresa, an unhappily married woman in
Eriprando Visconti
Eriprando Visconti di Modrone, Count of Vico Modrone (September 24, 1932 – May 26, 1995) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was the nephew of the more famous Luchino Visconti.
Born in Milan into a noble family, i ...
's ''A Spiral of Mist'' (''Una spirale di nebbia'', 1977). She played a nun in ''
Kita No Misaki - Cap du Nord'' (1976), by Japanese director
Kei Kumai
was a Japanese film director from Azumino, Nagano prefecture. After his studies in literature at Shinshu University, he began work as a director's assistant.
He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for his first film, '' Nihon ...
. In the same year she starred as Penny Vanderwood in ''
Thinking Robots'', based on a horror novel by
George Langelaan. Among other films of the 1970s were ''
Malicious Pleasure
''Malicious Pleasure'' (aka ''Evil Pleasure'', ''Sly Pleasure'' ( French title: ''Le malin plaisir'') is a French film directed by Bernard Toublanc Michel, released in 1975, and it stars Jacques Weber, Claude Jade, Anny Duperey, Nicoletta Machiav ...
'' (''Le malin plaisir'', 1975), ''
Trop c'est trop
Trop c'est trop ''(Too Much Is Too Much)'' is a French comedy film directed by Didier Kaminka in 1975
Didier (Kaminka), Philippe (Ogouz) and Georges (Beller) were born the same day at the same hour in the same room as the war was ending. A few ...
'' (1975) and the romantic comedy ''The Pawn'' (''
Le Pion'', 1978), in which she starred as a young widow who wins the heart of her son's teacher (
Henri Guybet
Henri Guybet (born 21 December 1936) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1964.
Guybet started his career in dinner theater in the Café de la Gare, alongside Coluche and Miou-Miou in late 1960s. Gérard Oury ...
). One year later Claude Jade played the part of Christine Doinel for the third time in Truffaut's ''
Love on the Run''.
In 1970 she starred as Orphan Françoise in mini-series ''
Mauregard
Mauregard is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
Parts of the Charles de Gaulle International Airport (France's largest and busiest airport) are located in Mauregard, including Termina ...
'', directed by Truffaut's co-writer
Claude de Givray
Claude de Givray (born 7 April 1933) is a French film director and screenwriter. In 1960 he was co-director with François Truffaut for '' Tire-au flanc''. He directed the 1965 film '' Un mari à un prix fixe'', which starred Anna Karina. He w ...
. Other TV roles in the decade were
Sheherazade
Scheherazade () is a major female character and the storyteller in the frame narrative of the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the '' One Thousand and One Nights''.
Name
According to modern scholarship, the name ''Scheherazade'' de ...
(in ''Shéhérazade'') and
Louise de La Vallière
Françoise ''Louise'' de La Vallière, Duchess of La Vallière and Vaujours, born Françoise Louise de La Baume Le Blanc de La Vallière, Mademoiselle de La Vallière (6 August 1644 – 7 June 1710) was a French noblewoman and the first mistres ...
(in ''Le chateau perdu''),
Lucile Desmoulins
Anne-Lucile-Philippe Desmoulins, born Laridon-Duplessis (18 January 1770 in Paris – 13 April 1794) was a French revolutionary, diarist, and author during the French Revolution. She was married to the revolutionary Camille Desmoulins. She was ...
(in ''La passion de Camille et Lucile Desmoulins''). She starred in such television movies as ''Mamie Rose'', ''La Mandragore'', ''Monsieur Seul'', ''Fou comme François'', ''Les anneaux de Bicêtre'', ''Ulysse est revenu'', and, in her biggest success of that decade, as heroine Veronique d'Hergemont in the series ''
The Island of Thirty Coffins
The Secret of Sarek (L'Île aux trente cercueils / The Island of Thirty Coffins) is a French novel by Maurice Leblanc, 1919, also known for the film version as a mini-series in 1979 starring Claude Jade as Véronique.
The action begins in Fran ...
''.
The 1980s in film and TV
In the 1980s Jade moved to
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...
for three years with her husband Bernard Coste, a French diplomat, and her son Pierre Coste (born in 1976). She starred in two
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
films. In ''
Teheran 43
''Teheran 43'' (Russian: ''Тегеран-43''; French: ''Téhéran 43, Nid d'espions'') is a 1981 Soviet-French-Swiss political thriller film made by Mosfilm, ''Mediterraneo Cine'' and ''Pro Dis Film'', directed by Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Na ...
'' (1981) she played the mysterious terrorist Françoise, with
Alain Delon and an international cast. For Sergei Yutkevich's ''
Lenin in Paris
''Lenin in Paris'' (russian: Ленин в Париже, Lenin v Parizhe) is a Soviet biopic directed by Sergei Yutkevich in 1981 on Mosfilm.
Synopsis
Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin spent four years in Paris (1909–1912), and this historic ...
'' (1981), she played the French
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...
Inessa Armand
Inessa Fyodorovna Armand (born Elisabeth-Inès Stéphane d'Herbenville; 8 May 1874 – 24 September 1920) was a French-Russian communist politician, member of the Bolsheviks and a feminist who spent most of her life in Russia. Armand, being ...
, although without the rumored love affair with
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1 ...
.
Among her other film roles in the 1980s were the arrested philosophy prof in ''Schools Falling Apart'' (''Le Bahut va craquer'', 1981), the lawyer Valouin in ''
A Captain's Honor
''A Captain's Honor'' (french: L'Honneur d'un capitaine) is a 1982 French war film directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer.
Plot
A courtroom-drama about a dead Captain whose memory is publicly accused by a historian on TV, twenty years after his death ...
'' (''L'honneur d'un capitaine'', 1982), the
Vicki Baum
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum (; he, ויקי באום; January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel ''Menschen im Hotel'' ("People at a Hotel", 1929 — published in English as '' Grand Hotel''), one of h ...
-heroine Evelyne Droste in ''
Rendezvous in Paris'' (1982) and the mysterious Alice in
René Féret
René Féret (26 May 1945 – 28 April 2015) was a French actor, screenwriter, film director and producer.Le grand secret
''The Immortals'' () is a 1973 novel by the French writer René Barjavel. It tells the story of a grand conspiracy between world leaders. It was published in English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may ...
'' (1989) and in episode ''L'amie d'enfance'' of the series ''
Commissaire Moulin
''Commissaire Moulin'' (English: Police Commissioner Moulin) is a French television series created by Paul Andréota and Claude Boissol and starring Yves Rénier as the title character, Commissaire Jean-Paul Moulin. The show started in 1976, was ...
''.
The 1990s in TV and film
During the 1990s Jade worked mainly in television, such as the TV series ''La tête en l'air'' and ''Fleur bleue'', as guest star in ''Une femme d'honneur'' (ep.''Mémoire perdue''), ''Inspecteur Moretti'' (ep. ''Un enfant au soleil''), ''
Julie Lescaut
''Julie Lescaut'' is a French police television series. It was broadcast from 1992 to 2014 on TF1 (France), La Une-RTBF (Belgium) and TSR (Switzerland). It details the investigations of Police Superintendent Julie Lescaut (played by Véronique ...
'' (ep. ''Rumeurs'') and ''Navarro'' (ep. ''Sentiments mortels''). TV movies included ''L'Éternité devant soi'', ''Le bonheur des autres'', ''
Eugénie Grandet
''Eugénie Grandet'' is a novel first published in 1833 by French author Honoré de Balzac. While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, ''La Comédie humaine'', and almost immediately prepared a second edition, revising the names ...
'' and ''Porté disparu''. From 1998 to 2000 she was the lead actress in the series ''
Tide of Life
''Tide of Life'' ("Cap des Pins") is the first French French television soap opera that is released every week-day. (1998–2000).
starring: (Gérard Chantreuil), Claude Jade (Anna Chantreuil), (Brice Chantreuil), (Louise Chantreuil), Dor ...
'' (''Cap des Pins)''. Her last U.S. acting part was a guest appearance on ''
The Hitchhiker'': in the episode ''Windows'' she is Monique, who shoots her neighbor
David Marshall Grant
David Marshall Grant (born June 21, 1955) is an American actor, singer and writer.
Life and career
Grant was born in Westport, Connecticut, to physician parents. Immediately after graduating from Connecticut College with an M.F.A. and receivin ...
at the end.
Jade's film roles in cinemas in 1990s included Gabrielle Martin, a mother betrayed by her husband, in ''
Tableau d'honneur
List of Merite (''Tableau d'honneur'') is a 1992 French film directed by Charles Nemes, starring Guillaume de Tonquédec, Claude Jade, Philippe Khorsand and François Berléand.
Synopsis
Jules (Guillaume de Tonquédec) is a student at the Charle ...
''. This was followed by her performance as shy lesbian Caroline in
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Jean-Pierre Mocky (6 July 1929 – 8 August 2019), pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, was a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.
Life and career
Mocky was born in Nice, France to Polish immigrant parents, Jeanne Zylinska ...
's ''
Bonsoir
''Bonsoir'' is a 1994 France, French film directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky.
Plot
Having first lost his wife, then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin (Michel Serrault) has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits hi ...
''. In 1998, she played a governor's wife, Reine Schmaltz, who saves herself on a lifeboat in the historical movie ''
The Raft of the Medusa
''The Raft of the Medusa'' (french: Le Radeau de la Méduse ) – originally titled ''Scène de Naufrage'' (''Shipwreck Scene'') – is an oil painting of 1818–19 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791 ...
'' (''Le Radeau de la Méduse'', 1998).
The 2000s in TV and short films
In her last decade, Jade's work included the TV movie ''Sans famille'' (2000); the series ''La Crim'' (episode "Le secret" in 2004), and ''Groupe Flag'' (episode "Vrai ou faux" in 2005). She also appeared in an episode of the short film series ''
Drug Scenes ''Drug Scenes'' (original French title ''Scénarios sur la drogue'', also titled ''Drugs!'') is an omnibus film (2000) of 24 French short films depicting drug abuse. Varying in length from three to seven minutes, they showed in movie theaters befor ...
'' (''Scénarios sur la drogue'', episode "La rampe", 2000); and in the short ''À San Remo'' (2004).
Theatrical work
Jade was a member of Jean Meyer's theatre company in
Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...
, appearing in plays by
Jean Giraudoux
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (; 29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II.
His ...
(
Helena in ''
The Trojan War Will Not Take Place
''The Trojan War Will Not Take Place'' (french: La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu) is a play written in 1935 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux. In 1955 it was translated into English by Christopher Fry with the title ''Tiger at the Gates''. The ...
'', and Isabelle in ''
Intermezzo
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'');
Henry de Montherlant
Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant (; 20 April 1895 – 21 September 1972) was a French essayist, novelist, and dramatist. He was elected to the Académie française in 1960.
Biography
Born in Paris, a descendant ...
(''Port Royal'');
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...
(''The Exiles'');
Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ) (; 22 December 163921 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western traditi ...
(''Britannicus''); and
Balzac (''Le Faiseur''). She took roles in plays by
Vladimir Volkoff
Vladimir Volkoff (7 November 1932 – 14 September 2005) was a French writer of Russian extraction. He produced both literary works for adults and spy novels for young readers under the pseudonym Lieutenant X. His works are characterised by theme ...
(''The Interrogation'');
Catherine Decours (''Regulus 93'');
Michel Vinaver
Michel Vinaver (born Michel Grinberg; 13 January 1927 – 1 May 2022) was a French writer and dramatist. He was born in Paris to parents who had emigrated from Russia. He was the manager of Gillette. He is the father of actress Anouk Grinberg
...
(''Dissident il va sans dire''),
Alfred de Musset (''Lorenzaccio'') and others. She worked onstage in Lyon,
Nantes,
Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated)
* it, Digione
* la, Diviō or
* lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920.
The earlie ...
and
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
.
Many plays were adapted for TV, such as her performances as Helena in
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...
s ''
Midsummer Night's Dream
''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is a comedy written by William Shakespeare 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict amon ...
''; her Sylvie in
Marcel Aymé
Marcel Aymé (29 March 1902 – 14 October 1967) was a French novelist and playwright, who also wrote screenplays and works for children.
Biography
Marcel André Aymé was born in Joigny, in the Burgundy region of France, the youngest of si ...
s ''Les oiseaux de lune''; her Colomba in
Jules Romains
Jules Romains (born Louis Henri Jean Farigoule; 26 August 1885 – 14 August 1972) was a French poet and writer and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement. His works include the play '' Knock ou le Triomphe de la médecine'', and a cycle ...
's adaptation of Ben Johnson's ''
Volpone
''Volpone'' (, Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-perfor ...
''; her Clarisse in Jacques Deval's ''Il y a longtemps que je t'aime''; her title role in
Jules Supervielle
Jules Supervielle (16 January 1884 – 17 May 1960) was a Franco-Uruguayan poet and writer born in Montevideo. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
He opposed the surrealism movement in poetry and rejected automatic wri ...
's ''Shéhérazade''; and her
Louise de La Vallière
Françoise ''Louise'' de La Vallière, Duchess of La Vallière and Vaujours, born Françoise Louise de La Baume Le Blanc de La Vallière, Mademoiselle de La Vallière (6 August 1644 – 7 June 1710) was a French noblewoman and the first mistres ...
in ''Le château perdu''. Her last stage role was as Célimène in Jacques Rampal's ''Celimene and the Cardinal''.
Later life
Jade published her autobiography, ''Baisers envolés,'' in 2004.
Death
On 1 December 2006, Jade died of
uveal melanoma
Uveal melanoma is a type of eye cancer in the uvea of the eye. It is traditionally classed as originating in the iris, choroid, and ciliary body, but can also be divided into class I (low metastatic risk) and class II (high metastatic risk). Sym ...
which had
metastasis
Metastasis is a pathogenic agent's spread from an initial or primary site to a different or secondary site within the host's body; the term is typically used when referring to metastasis by a cancerous tumor. The newly pathological sites, then ...
ed to
metastatic liver disease. She wore a prosthetic eye in her last stage performance, ''Celimene and the Cardinal'', in August 2006.
Awards
Jade won an award in 1970 for "Révelation de la Nuit du cinéma",
[ and in 1975 she received the Prix Orange at the ]Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films o ...
. Her contributions to French culture were recognised in 1998, when was named a knight in the Légion d'honneur
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...
. In 2000 she won the New Wave Award at Palm Beach International Film Festival
The Palm Beach International Film Festival is a film festival in the United States
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for her "trend-setting role in the world cinema", followed in 2002 by the ''Prix Reconnaissance des Cinéphiles'' in Puget-Théniers
Puget-Théniers (; oc, Lo Puget Tenier; it, Poggetto Tenieri) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.
Geography
It is situated on in the valley of the Var.
History
It was part of the historic County of Nice ...
.
Legacy
In 2013 a street in Dijon was named after Claude Jade: Allée Claude Jade, 21000 Dijon.See location
Retrieved 25 March 2016.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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at Films de France
Claude Jadeat DvdToile
Claude Jade orbituary in Variety
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1948 births
2006 deaths
20th-century French actresses
21st-century French actresses
French autobiographers
French stage actresses
French film actresses
French television actresses
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
Deaths from cancer in France
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
Actors from Dijon
Women autobiographers
Deaths from uveal melanoma
Deaths from liver disease