Androgynous Pixie Beauty Jean Seberg Vintage Photograph Bonjour Tristesse 1958
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:7282499 | Size: 8" x 10" |
| Original/Reproduction: Original | Modified Item: No |
| Subject: Jean Seberg | Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
| Film: Bonjour Tristesse (1958) |
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ITEM: This is a vintage and original Columbia Pictures production still photograph promoting the 1958 British-American film Bonjour Tristesse. Pictured is actress of Hollywood and European films Jean Seberg. The French New Wave darling is androgynous and gorgeous with cropped pixie hair. An all-around beautiful photo of the tragic cinema icon.
An American actress who lived half her life in France, Seberg's performance in Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film "Breathless" immortalized her as an icon of French New Wave cinema. She appeared in 34 films in Hollywood and in Europe. She was also one of the best-known targets of the FBI COINTELPRO project. Her targeting was a well-documented retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s. Seberg died at the age of 40 in Paris, with police ruling her death a probable suicide. Romain Gary, Seberg's second husband, called a press conference shortly after her death where he publicly blamed the FBI's campaign against Seberg for her deteriorating mental health. Gary claimed that Seberg "became psychotic" after the media reported a false story that the FBI planted about her becoming pregnant with a Black Panther's child in 1970. Romain Gary stated that Seberg had repeatedly attempted suicide on the anniversary of the child's death, August 25.
Measures 8" x 10" on a glossy single weight paper stock.
Pencil notations on verso.
CONDITION: Fine condition with scattered edge wear and light storage/handling wear. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
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Jean Dorothy Seberg was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, to Dorothy Arline (Benson), a substitute teacher, and Edward Waldemar Seberg, a pharmacist. Her father was of Swedish descent and her mother was of English and German ancestry.
One month before her eighteenth birthday, Jean landed the title role in Otto Preminger's Saint Joan (1957) after a much-publicized contest involving some 18, 000 hopefuls. The failure of that film and the only moderate success of her next, Bonjour Tristesse (1958), combined to stall Seberg's career, until her role in Jean-Luc Godard's landmark feature, Breathless (1960), brought her renewed international attention. Seberg gave a memorable performance as a schizophrenic in the title role of Robert Rossen's Lilith (1964) opposite Warren Beatty and went on to appear in over 30 films in Hollywood and Europe.
In the late 1960s, Seberg became involved in anti-war politics and was the target of an undercover campaign by the FBI to discredit her because of her association with several members of the Black Panther party. She was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Paris in 1979.
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