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Simone Simon (April 23, 1910, Béthune, France -
February 22, 2005, Paris, France) was a
France|French film actor|actress.

Simon began her film career in France in 1931 and
quickly established herself as one of the
country's most successful film actresses. After
seeing her in the 1934 film Lac Aux Dames (USA
title: "Ladies Lake"), Darryl F. Zanuck brought
her to Hollywood, California|Hollywood in 1936
with a widespread publicity campaign, but her
films for 20th Century Fox were only moderately
successful, and Simon returned, dissatisfied, to
France. There she appeared in the film La Bete
Humaine (The Human Beast) in 1938.

With the outbreak of World War II she returned to
Hollywood and RKO Studios where she achieved her
greatest successes in English language cinema with
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), and the
horror movie|horror films Cat People (1942
film)|Cat People (1942) and The Curse of the Cat
People (1944).  These films did not lead to
greater success and she languished in mediocre
films until the end of the war.

She returned to France to act, and appeared in La
Ronde (1950). Her film roles were few after this
and she made her final film appearance in 1973.
She died in Paris at age 94 (although BBC news
reports mistakenly reported this age as 93).

==Reference==
Web reference|title=23 February 2005 - French
Actress Simone Simon dies|work=BBC News, UK
Edition|URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainme
nt/film/4291269.stm|date=Feb. 23|year=2005

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Simone Simon (April 23, 1910, Béthune, France -
February 22, 2005, Paris, France) was a
France|French film actor|actress.

Simon began her film career in France in 1931 and
quickly established herself as one of the
country's most successful film actresses. After
seeing her in the 1934 film Lac Aux Dames (USA
title: "Ladies Lake"), Darryl F. Zanuck brought
her to Hollywood, California|Hollywood in 1936
with a widespread publicity campaign, but her
films for 20th Century Fox were only moderately
successful, and Simon returned, dissatisfied, to
France. There she appeared in the film La Bete
Humaine (The Human Beast) in 1938.

With the outbreak of World War II she returned to
Hollywood and RKO Studios where she achieved her
greatest successes in English language cinema with
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), and the
horror movie|horror films Cat People (1942
film)|Cat People (1942) and The Curse of the Cat
People (1944).  These films did not lead to
greater success and she languished in mediocre
films until the end of the war.

She returned to France to act, and appeared in La
Ronde (1950). Her film roles were few after this
and she made her final film appearance in 1973.
She died in Paris at age 94 (although BBC news
reports mistakenly reported this age as 93).

==Reference==
Web reference|title=23 February 2005 - French
Actress Simone Simon dies|work=BBC News, UK
Edition|URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainme
nt/film/4291269.stm|date=Feb. 23|year=2005