Christian Marquand

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Christian Marquand (March 15, 1927 - November 22, 2000) was a French director, actor and screenwriter working in French cinema. A native of Marseille, his sister was film director Nadine Trintignant , and he can be sen as a heartthrob in French movies of the 1950s.

Tall, athletic and handsome, he was first noticed in Christian-Jaque's Lucrèce Borgia (1953) as Lucrezia's lover picked up in Roma streets during Carnival, he is the next day pursued about through a forest like a game at bay by Lucrezia (Martine Carol) and her brother Cesare (Pedro Armendriz)...

Then, in 1956, in the most famous french movie of the '50s, Roger Vadim's Et Dieu créa la femme (And God Created Woman), Marquand and Brigitte Bardot made many spectators dream through a famous scene : he dives in the Mediterranean Sea off Saint-Tropez to rescue her (his sister-in-law) from a blazing fishing dory , brings her back to land on a desert beach, pants on the sand while she stretches herself in the sun in her little wet summer-robe, and eventually yields to her cat-woman caresses...

In 1958 he acts in Alexandre Astruc 's Une vie (A life) , a close color illustration of Guy de Maupassant's terse novel. He is the selfish and brutal squire who cheats on his loving and tender wife (Maria Schell), beds down with her maid (Pascale Petit) and one of her close friend (Antonella Lualdi). But the riled husband will hurl the shepherd's caravan where the adulteries took shelter over a chalk cliff .

Marquand directed a few pictures, the most famous of which was Candy (1968).

Marquand was a friend of Marlon Brando, whom he had met in 1949 and was said to have had an affair with him at some point.^{[citation needed]} Brando's son Christian was named after him. He was married to Tina Aumont in the 1960s. He died of Alzheimer's disease.

External links

• Christian Marquand at the Internet Movie Database

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