Remembering Simone Therese Fernande Simon (1910-2005), the mesmerising French actress, born in Marseille #OnThisDay. She worked memorably as bewitching characters for Robert Wise, Max Ophuls, Jean Renoir and William Dieterle, and was extraordinary as the sympathetic Serbian cat woman Irena in Jacques Tourneur's masterful #CatPeople (1942) and, in ghostly form, its exquisite sequel #TheCurseOfTheCatPeople (1944).

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79 years ago:
The Curse of the Cat People (US)
Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
1944-04-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/28436
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