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Claude Marcelle Jorré, better known as Claude Jade (; 8 October 1948 – 1 December 2006), was a French actress. She starred as Christine 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 tha ...
'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
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, the
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,
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,
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,
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and Japan.


Early career

The daughter of university professors, Jade spent three years at
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'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'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 tha ...
. 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 of ...
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 ''
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'' (1969), as Michèle Picard, a secret agent's anxious daughter, married to a reporter ( Michel Subor). 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
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about 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. Kell ...
, 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.
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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''. Earl ...
's film ''Nijinsky'' (a.k.a. ''The Dancer'') (1970), based on a screenplay by
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, was canceled during pre-production by producer
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. It was to have starred Jade as Vaslav Nijinsky's wife, alongside
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as Nijinsky and Paul Scofield as his lover
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. She had a leading role as Linda in ''
Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo ''The Return of Monte Cristo'' (''Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo'') is a French film (1968) directed by André Hunebelle. Plot Edmond Dantes (Paul Barge), imprisoned in Sisteron for denouncing and allowing the dismemberment of a whole network of ...
'' (''Under the Sign of Monte Cristo'') by André Hunebelle, a modern version of Alexandre Dumas' novel. Here the 19 years young actress starred alongside French cinema's veterans like Pierre Brasseur and Michel Auclair. 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 Benja ...
's ''
My Uncle Benjamin ''Mon oncle Benjamin'' (''My Uncle Benjamin'') is a 1969 French film directed by Édouard Molinaro, starring Jacques Brel and Claude Jade. The film is based on a once-popular French comic novel ' by Claude Tillier (1842). The 1969 film ''Don't ...
'' (''Mon oncle Benjamin'', 1969) alongside
Jacques Brel Jacques Romain Georges Brel (, ; 8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer and actor who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, l ...
. 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
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, where she played a young English teacher who is fatally intrigued by a murderer ( Gérard Barray) in the 1969 film '' The Witness''. Her fiancé is this movie was played by Jean-Claude Dauphin, to whom she was engaged at this time. Also in 1969 she starred as
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in a film adaptation of Shakespeare's ''
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'' by
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, '' 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
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praised her in work in Gérard Brach's '' The Boat on the Grass'' (''Le bateau sur l'herbe'', 1971), in which she starred as Eleonore, a young girl between two friends ( Jean-Pierre Cassel,
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 Gavest ...
). She starred in ''
Hearth Fires ''Hearth Fires'' (french: Les Feux de la Chandeleur) is a 1972 French film directed by Serge Korber. The film is also known as ''La Divorziata'' (Italy). Synopsis Marie-Louise (Anne Girardot) is a woman whose love for her ex-husband will not die. ...
'' (''Les feux de la chandeleur'', 1972) as Laura, a daughter who wants to reconcile her parents ( Annie Girardot, Jean Rochefort) and who falls in love with her mother's best friend ( Bernard Fresson). Alongside Robert Hossein she played the priest's love Françoise in ''Forbidden Priests'' (''Prêtres interdits'', 1973). In '' Home Sweet Home'' (1973), she played a hardened nurse who is changed by a love affair with a social worker ( Jacques Perrin). Jade played a dual role in '' The Choice'', 1976). She starred in three Italian films: as a private investigator in '' Number One'' (1973), as Tiffany, the girlfriend of a private eye ( Frederick Stafford, her father from ''Topaz'') in ''
La ragazza di via Condotti ''Special Killers'' (Italian title: ''La ragazza di via Condotti'', French title: ''Meurtres à Rome'' or ''Le crime de la via Condotti'', Spanish title: ''La chica de via Condotti'') is a 1973 Italian-French-Spanish crime-thriller film directed b ...
'' (1973), and as Maria Teresa, an unhappily married woman in Eriprando Visconti'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
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. 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'' (''Le malin plaisir'', 1975), '' Trop c'est trop'' (1975) and the romantic comedy ''The Pawn'' (''
Le Pion ''The Pawn'' (French: Le Pion) is a 1978 French comedy film directed by Christian Gion starring Henri Guybet and Claude Jade. Plot Bertrand Barabi (Henri Guybet) is a French teacher and deputy supervisor in a school in province. He attended the ...
'', 1978), in which she starred as a young widow who wins the heart of her son's teacher ( Henri Guybet). 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'', directed by Truffaut's co-writer Claude de Givray. Other TV roles in the decade were Sheherazade (in ''Shéhérazade'') and Louise de La Vallière (in ''Le chateau perdu''), Lucile Desmoulins (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
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for three years with her husband Bernard Coste, a French diplomat, and her son Pierre Coste (born in 1976). She starred in two
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films. In '' Teheran 43'' (1981) she played the mysterious terrorist Françoise, with Alain Delon and an international cast. For Sergei Yutkevich's '' Lenin in Paris'' (1981), she played the French
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Inessa Armand, although without the rumored love affair with
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. 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 ''
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'' (''L'honneur d'un capitaine'', 1982), the Vicki Baum-heroine Evelyne Droste in '' Rendezvous in Paris'' (1982) and the mysterious Alice in René Féret's thriller ''The Man Who Wasn't There'' (''L'homme qui n'était pas là'', 1987). She also appeared in TV movies, such as the thriller ''La grotte aux loups'' (1980); the drama ''Nous ne l'avons pas assez aimée'' (1980); ''Treize'' (1981); a dual role in ''Lise et Laura'' (1982); ''A Girl in the Sunflowers'' (1984); the Italian miniseries ''Voglia di volare'' (1984); the French-Spanish-Canadian-German miniseries '' Le grand secret'' (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'' (ep. ''Rumeurs'') and ''Navarro'' (ep. ''Sentiments mortels''). TV movies included ''L'Éternité devant soi'', ''Le bonheur des autres'', '' Eugénie Grandet'' and ''Porté disparu''. From 1998 to 2000 she was the lead actress in the series '' Tide of Life'' (''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 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 Char ...
''. This was followed by her performance as shy lesbian Caroline in Jean-Pierre Mocky's ''
Bonsoir ''Bonsoir'' is a 1994 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 himself ...
''. 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'' (''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 ''
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'' (''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
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, appearing in plays by Jean Giraudoux (
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in '' The Trojan War Will Not Take Place'', and Isabelle in ''
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''); Henry de Montherlant (''Port Royal'');
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(''The Exiles''); Racine (''Britannicus''); and Balzac (''Le Faiseur''). She took roles in plays by Vladimir Volkoff (''The Interrogation'');
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(''Regulus 93''); Michel Vinaver (''Dissident il va sans dire''),
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(''Lorenzaccio'') and others. She worked onstage in Lyon,
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,
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and
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. Many plays were adapted for TV, such as her performances as Helena in
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s '' Midsummer Night's Dream''; her Sylvie in Marcel Aymés ''Les oiseaux de lune''; her Colomba in
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's adaptation of Ben Johnson's ''
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''; her Clarisse in Jacques Deval's ''Il y a longtemps que je t'aime''; her title role in Jules Supervielle's ''Shéhérazade''; and her Louise de La Vallière 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
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which had
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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
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. Her contributions to French culture were recognised in 1998, when was named a knight in the
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. In 2000 she won the New Wave Award at Palm Beach International Film Festival for her "trend-setting role in the world cinema", followed in 2002 by the ''Prix Reconnaissance des Cinéphiles'' in Puget-Théniers.


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 Jade
at DvdToile
Claude Jade orbituary in Variety
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