C’is undoubtedly the most beautiful and piercing look in all of French song. Marie Laforêt, who died in 2019, was nicknamed “The girl with the golden eyes”, named after the film by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco released in 1961. Which will make her say with her usual outspokenness during an interview at the Figaro : “If I had been called the girl with the big ass, it would have frankly embarrassed me …” The singer of “It snowed on Yesterday”, “Viens, come”, “Manchester and Liverpool” or “La Tendresse” returned in 2005 on the set of Everybody talks about it – program available on the INA ArdiTube channel – on his career and his financial setbacks.
In the 1960s-1970s and 1980s, Marie Laforêt perfectly juggled between cinema and song: 35 films and 35 million albums sold. Fame and fortune? suggests Thierry Ardisson. Far from there. “What’s great is that it wasn’t me who got the money,” laughs the Swiss. And to clarify: “Since 2002, seven compilations have been released, it’s insane. And I received for all that: 9,000 euros. Friendship in Lederman [Paul Lederman était son producteur, NDLR]. »
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“My career is odds and ends, but my life is full from start to finish,” confessed the actress of full sun, Happy Easter, Cops and robbers or Morfalous who had chosen at the end of the 1980s to withdraw little by little from show business before a fanfare comeback under the impetus of Laurent Ruquier in 2005 when she performed on stage for the first time since… 1969. A triumph. One again.
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