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Grco Juliette Biography

French singer and actress, onscreen from the 40s as a leading lady in films that include "The Sun Also Rises," "Bonjour Tristesse," "The Night of the Generals" and more. Her best known songs were "Jolie Môme", "Déshabillez-moi", and "La Javanaise". She was known to many of the writers and artists working in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, such as Albert Camus, Jacques Prévert and Boris Vian, thus gaining the nickname la Muse de lexistentialisme. Her friend Jean-Paul Sartre once commented that Greco had "millions of poems in her voice". Gréco was married three times: to actor Philippe Lemaire (1953–1956), actor Michel Piccoli (1966–1977) and pianist Gérard Jouannest (1988 until his death in 2018). With Lemaire, she had a daughter, Laurence-Marie, born in 1954. In 2015, she began her last worldwide tour, titled "Merci", which rounded off her sixty-year career. Gréco died in Ramatuelle on 23 September 2020 at the age of 93. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less