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Simone Simon, French actressOBITUARY
From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20050225
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International Herald Tribune
02-25-2005
Simone Simon, the French actress best known to American audiences for her haunting role in the 1942 RKO horror film ''Cat People,'' died on Feb. 22 in Paris. She was 93.Her death was announced by her friends and family to Agence France-Presse.In ''Cat People'' Simon played a Serbian-born woman who fears that when her passions are aroused she will turn into a panther that kills.Simon made another film for RKO, ''Mademoiselle Fifi'' (1944), an adaptation of two Guy de Maupassant stories. Although it was not a hit in the United States, it was the first ...
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