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Pascale Petit

 


Pascale Petit

Born: February 27,
in Paris
French Actress
Author


Pascale Petit was spotted by French actress Françoise Lugagne, while she worked as a beautician. She notized the young girl's beauty on the spot - proposing to her, to come and try to get a part in her  husband's (director of cinéma) film "Les sorcières de Salem" in 1956 - who was looking for a young girl. Pascale Petit was extremely popular in the late fifties and sixties and she was compared as the new Brigitte Bardot. She played in many movies the female leading role. She followed her second husband Giani Esposito to Italy, and gave birth to two children. She went also to Hollywood where she played for example beside Ray Danton and only returned to French cinema in 1971.

In 1957 Pascale Petit was given the Susanne Bianchetti
AWARD for best hopeful newcomer in her role as Mic, in Les Tricheurs directed by Marcel Carné. Some of her partners were, Jean-François Porron, Jacques Charrier, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Dany Saval, Pierre Brice...

Pascale Petit is the mother of Doushka Esposito, who is a very popular singer and Animator for French Television.      


In our beloved series "Catherine, il suffit d'amour, Pascale Petit played "Catherine's" motherly friend, "Sara. We adored her in that most important role, what would our heroine done without her? A character, even Arnaud de Montsalvy, bowed his head!

 




 

Pascale Petit has written a book which will be published on 27 October 2022

UNE VIE SANS TRICHER *
Foreword by Henri-Jean Servat

SYNOPSIS
Pascale Petit unveils a touching and sincere autobiography. "Une vie sans tricher" talks openly about her magnificent career as an actress, but also about her doubts, her loves...

More than a pretty brunette adored by the public, Pascale Petit is a profound being, "in perpetual search of the absolute", writes Henry-Jean Servat in his preface. The actress never took acting lessons. The director Raymond Rouleau revealed her in the film "The Witches of Salem", alongside Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Mylène Demongeot...

Marcel Carné made her an international star with the cult film "Les Tricheurs". The "BB brune" has worked with Henri Verneuil, Marc Allegret, Édouard Molinaro, Alexandre Astruc, Michel Boisrond, Alberto Lattuada... Among her partners: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Laurent Terzieff, Ray Danton, Roger Moore, Daniel Gélin, Roger Hanin, Jeffrey Hunter, Giani Esposito, whom she married in 1960...
She has also worked for the theatre and television.
Behind the artist lies an aesthete in search of spirituality and authenticity.
Source/ Website Éditions Glyphe

* book so far only available in French!



 



 




February 27, 2017

Happy Birthday !
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     Dear Pascale
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. . . ✿•*¨`*•.¸(¯`v´¯)¸.•´*¨`*•✿ . . .

 





 



 

Pascale Petit during the shooting of Catherine, il suffit d'un amour in1986.
One of the hundreds of souvenirs in Dame Marion Sarraut's, director of the the TV-Series Marianne, Catherine, The Lure of the Falcon and the Florentine.

Thank you so much again dear Dame Marion for sharing this with me/us the Sarraut/Benzoni family. Je vous embrasse affectueusement Linda


 



 

The beautiful Pascale Petit has been in numerous films and other production - here is a link to  Imdb







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