Louis Jourdan
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Top Male Musical Performance Golden Globes [1959] (Won/Nominated: 2nd place)
Best Motion Picture Actor - Comedy/Musical Golden Globes [1959] (Won/Nominated: Nominated)
Star on the Walk of Fame Walk of Fame
 

Louis Jourdan Biography
Born Louis Gendre, he was educated in France, Britain, and Turkey. He trained as an actor with René Simon at the École Dramatique. He debuted on-screen in 1939, going on to play cultivated, polished, dashing lead roles in a number of French romantic comedies and dramas. During World War II, after his father was arrested by the Gestapo, Louis and his two brothers joined the French underground; his film career came to a halt when he refused to act in Nazi propaganda films. In 1948, David O. Selznick invited him to Hollywood to appear in The Paradine Case (1947); he remained in the USA and went on to star in a number of Hollywood films. After 1953, he appeared in international productions and, in 1958, appeared in Gigi (1958), his best-known film by American audiences. His career was hampered by the limitations of the roles he was offered, most of which featured him as an old-fashioned Continental lover.

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  • "There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down."
  • "I didn`t want to be perpetually cooing in a lady`s ear. There`s not much satisfaction in it."
  • Speaking of Gregory Peck`s nearly perfect good looks: "He can be funny, which is fortunate; otherwise such perfection would be unbearable."
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  • Only son, Louis Henry George Jourdan, was born October 6, 1951.
  • Favourite music is Wagner.
  • Enjoys books by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.
  • Doesn`t watch his own films.
  • He grew up in the south of France with 2 brothers. Parents Yvonne Jourdan and Henry Gendre managed a string of hotels in Cannes, Nice, and Marseilles. He perfected his English by speaking to tourists.
  • His wife is called `Quique`. They were childhood sweethearts.
  • It was he who found the body of his only son, Louis Henry, 29, in his Beverly Hills home. His son had suffered from depression and had apparently taken an overdose of drugs. The police labeled it a suicide, even though it may have been an accidental overdose.
  • Played the Chevalier role in Gigi on stage at the age of 63. Chevalier was 70 and frail when he did the movie.
  • Brother of director Pierre Jourdan.
  • He has two stars in "Walk of Fame".
  • He moved back to France after his career in Hollywood.
  • Considered the best player in Darryl F. Zanuck`s famous croquet circle.
  • Part of his French Resistance work was to help publish and distribute newspapers for the Underground.
  • He was a friend of Albert R. Broccoli
  • His son, Louis Henry, committed suicide by drug overdose in 1981.
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