- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGermaine Lefebvre
- Nicknames
- Cap
- Cappy
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- With classic patrician features and an independent, non-conformist
personality, Capucine began her film debut in 1949 at the age of 21
with an appearance in the film
Rendezvous in July (1949).
She attended school in France and received a BA degree in foreign
languages. Married for six months in her early twenties, she never
remarried. In 1957, she was discovered by director
Charles K. Feldman while working as a
high-fashion model for Givenchy in Paris and was brought to Hollywood
to study acting under Gregory Ratoff. She
was put under contract by Columbia studios in 1958 and had her first
leading part in the movie
Song Without End (1960). She
made six more major movies in the early to mid 1960s, two of which
(The Lion (1962) and
The 7th Dawn (1964)) starred
William Holden, with whom she had
a two-year affair. Moving from Hollywood to a penthouse apartment in
Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1962, she continued making movies, mostly in
Europe, until her suicide in 1990.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpousePierre Trabaud(1950 - 1950) (divorced)
- ChildrenNo Children
- She was a longtime friend of Audrey Hepburn, the two having
met while modeling in Paris in the late 1940s. A manic-depressive,
Capucine's life had on several occasions been saved by her friend (both
women lived at the time in Switzerland) after repeated suicide
attempts. - Died in Lausanne, Switzerland, after jumping from her eighth-story
apartment. - In 1952 she got a two-week job modeling clothes in fashion shows aboard a French cruise ship. She shared a cabin with a 17-year-old dancer working in the chorus of the ship's "nightclub"--Brigitte Bardot.
- Born Germain Lefebvre, she took the stage name "Capucine" during her modeling days. The name--pronounced "Kap-oo-seen"--is French for the Nasturtium flower.
- When she committed suicide in March 1990 at the age of 62, her
obituary in the New York Times stated that her only known survivors
were her three cats.
- Men spoil women in America. A woman needs to know that the man is her
master. - Every time I get in front of a camera, I think of it as an attractive
man I am meeting for the first time. I find him demanding and aloof--so I must do all in my power to interest him. - Men look at me like I'm a suspicious-looking trunk, and they're customs
agents. - [on Song Without End] I got much better as we went on. As the scenes warmed up, so did I.
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