I start with a French star Francoise Dorléac the sister of Catherine Deneuve.
Francoise Dorléac, Long Gone But Not Forgotten , Francoise Dorléac was the daughter of screen actor Maurice Dorléac and elder sister of Catherine Deneuve. The two sisters starred together in the 1967 musical, Les demoiselles de Rochefort or The Young Girls of Rochefort.
She was made famous by Philippe de Broca's movie L'homme de Rio, François Truffaut's La Peau Douce and Roman Polanski's Cul-de-sac, but her career was cut short by her tragic death. Dorléac was killed when she crashed her car. She had been en route to Nice airport when her Renault sports car hit a signpost at the end of the Esterel-Cote d'Azur auto-route, flipped over, and burst into flames. Francoise was seen struggling to get out of the car, but was unable to open the door. She died burnt alive Police later identified her body only from the fragment of a cheque book, a diary and her driving license! She was only 25 years-old.
Francoise Dorléac, Long Gone But Not Forgotten , Francoise Dorléac was the daughter of screen actor Maurice Dorléac and elder sister of Catherine Deneuve. The two sisters starred together in the 1967 musical, Les demoiselles de Rochefort or The Young Girls of Rochefort.
She was made famous by Philippe de Broca's movie L'homme de Rio, François Truffaut's La Peau Douce and Roman Polanski's Cul-de-sac, but her career was cut short by her tragic death. Dorléac was killed when she crashed her car. She had been en route to Nice airport when her Renault sports car hit a signpost at the end of the Esterel-Cote d'Azur auto-route, flipped over, and burst into flames. Francoise was seen struggling to get out of the car, but was unable to open the door. She died burnt alive Police later identified her body only from the fragment of a cheque book, a diary and her driving license! She was only 25 years-old.
