Michèle Morgan (COMÉDIENNES)
2 Rue Saint-Louis en l’Île, 75004 Paris, France

Film and theatre actress Michèle Morgan was a leading lady for three decades in both French and Hollywood films. She is considered one of the greatest French actresses of the 20th century. Morgan was first noticed by director Marc Allégret, who offered her a major role in the film Gribouille (1937). Upon the invasion of France in 1940, Morgan left for the United States and Hollywood where she was contracted to RKO Pictures in 1941. Voted ten times by the public as “the most popular French actress”, she was also the first actress to receive the Best Actress Prize at the first Cannes Film Festival in 1946 for her role as Gertrude in the film La Symphonie pastorale (1945). For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Morgan has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. From the 1970s onwards she devoted more of her time to painting, a passion which dates back to her meeting with the Franco-Polish painter Moïse Kisling in the United States.

Find out where Michèle Morgan lived on Walk 60 – Pont de Sully