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The matchless Simone Signoret (1921 - 1985), one of the grand stars of the twentieth hundred years and one of France's most notable actors, considered herself the "oldest finding" in Hollywood. After many years of blacklisting during the McCarthy period, she was 38 years old when she entered Hollywood through the back door in the 1959 British blockbuster Room at the Top. Her portrayal of the endearing Alice Aisgill acquired her the Academy Prize in 1960, the first French professional to win a desired Oscar. Though a latecomer to Hollywood, Signoret had been an international star who acquired survived the Nazi job of Paris, rising in 1945 as a lovely, promising actress capable of communicating more feelings through body language than dialogue exclusively could achieve. She gained a reputation as the pondering man's sex sign, and in several videos she portrayed prostitutes with subtlety and depth. She was fiercely defensive of her personal privacy. But after receiving the Oscar, she was dragged through the gutter when her second spouse, Yves Montand, acquired a generally publicized affair with Marilyn Monroe. Many attributed her fast ageing and alcoholism to this betrayal. She endured this perception in silence, all the while demonstrating a impressive capacity to reinvent herself as a best-selling author, respected social activist, and revered celebrity who continued to be in the theatre, her "garden of dreams", for over four years.
