Simone Simon

Simone Simon was born Simone Thérèse Fernande Simon on April 23, 1910, in Marseille, France, and began her film career in 1931. She quickly established herself as one of the country's most successful film actresses. After seeing her in the 1934 film Lac Aux Dames (USA title: "Ladies' Lake"), Darryl F. Zanuck brought her to Hollywood in 1936 with a widespread publicity campaign, but her films for 20th Century Fox were only moderately successful, and Simon returned, dissatisfied, to France. There she appeared in the film La Bete Humaine (The Human Beast) in 1938.

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