Remembering Jean Seberg on her birthday 🎂
A great portrait by Roger Corbeau, but undated (early 1970s, perhaps?)
@MAPatrimoine
"Put her on any street this minute, and she would look contemporary."
- Jane Hess
Coffee with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg & Jean-Luc Godard ☕️
À bout de souffle (Breathless), 1960
📷 Raymond Cauchetier
From Studio Harcourt in Paris, this 1961 portrait of the pride of Marshalltown, Iowa, Jean Seberg. The young actress became a star in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, released the previous year.
Jean Seberg on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless
📷 Alain Adler, 1960
"Seberg’s performance feels so genuine and nervous that it can’t help but begin the blurring of the divide between her screen image and her tragedy-strewn life."
- @AdamScovell
On the set of À bout de souffle - Breathless.
Jean-Luc Godard, cinematographer Raoul Cotard, Jean Seberg & Jean-Paul Belmondo
📷 Raymond Cauchetier, 1960
This is one of my favourite film-set photographs.
Bob Willoughby
Self-portrait with Jean Seberg during the filming of Saint Joan, 1957
Her first film. Seberg called her director, Otto Preminger, "the world's most charming dinner guest and the world's most sadistic film director."
A superb portrait of Jean Seberg by Bob Willoughby, 1956
Jean Seberg by Mario Dondero
"She flits between charismatic stability and wide-eyed chaos in ways that aren’t fully describable in words but are totally engrained there on the celluloid."
- @AdamScovell
Jean Seberg by David Hurn, 1963
"If the story of Jean Seberg is one of the more wretched footnotes in the chronicle of fame, that’s all the more reason to treasure those occasions, onscreen, when she was not a victim - when she bore herself with mastery & grace."
- Anthony Lane
Jean Seberg in Paint Your Wagon,
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1969
"A million miles away behind the door":
Jean Seberg with her then husband, novelist Romain Gary
📷 Raymond Depardon, 1968
Seberg said they were "a low-rent version of Marilyn Monroe & Arthur Miller".
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