“People always talk about me as Angelica even though I have played fifty different women.
For many years I tried to forget about her, but now she seems to me like a little sister who is always ready to support me. I learned to live next to her.” Michel Mercier
Almost every woman knows the novels of Anne and Serge Golon about the beautiful Angelica. They are the embodiment of romance and love, beauty, tenderness and tantalizing sensuality. After the film adaptation of books about the magnificent Angelica, not only women, but also men started talking. A blonde with a languid look, a beautiful body and a strong spirit won the hearts of the strong half, and women were now dying of envy for the temptress in the face of actress Michelle Mercier. Naked Angelica, who appeared in several frames, made the audience howl with temptation.
Michelle Mercier is an extraordinary woman who deservedly received the title of "the most beautiful woman in the world." You look at her and think: "that's who the goddess of love kissed." It was the image of the on-screen Angelica that helped the actress achieve such wild popularity, but at the same time, he brought a lot of grief and trouble to her life.
Despite the fact that the men were laid out in piles at her feet, the actress Michelle Mercier herself said that she only had "romances for three." Angelica invisibly pursued the actress all her life, and the men who met in her life themselves could not figure out who they love - Michelle or Angelica. Such a duality of personality gave rise to severe depression in the actress. It's sad and something else. Michelle's men cleaned her to the bone. They took everything from her - heart, soul and money. She made good money and generously shared everything she had.
Biography of Michel Mercier
Jocelyn Yvonne Rene Mercier was born in 1939. In her family, the French roots of her father and the Italian roots of her mother were intertwined. Since childhood, the girl dreamed of ballet, and for many years she worked hard on her dream. The young ballerina was predicted to have a great future, however, as we know, she quit ballet and devoted herself to acting. It happened by accident. The bright appearance of the girl and the rare photogenicity were noticed by the director Denis de la Patellier, after which he offered her a role in the film The Turn of the Knob. The career of the actress took off.
During the filming of the film, the producer insisted on changing the name. The rising star herself understood: “Jocelyn Mercier” does not sound. She was afraid, however, that her parents would not agree to “give” her the name of her late younger sister, Michelle. Perhaps this was a mistake ... Her domineering mother had never been particularly delicate towards her eldest daughter. She cherished and cherished her Michelle. When the girl died, the grief of the parents flooded their eyes and practically erased the eldest daughter from life. At the first opportunity, Jocelyn fled to London and tried to start a dancing career there. Alas, the ballerina did not come out of it. Jocelyn had no choice but to return to her parents' roof.
Madame Mercier, confident that her daughter had spent all these months in frivolous amusements and cheap affairs, uttered a phrase in her hearts that would later become a kind of “parental curse” for Jocelyn: “You will never come out not only as an artist, but even a decent wife and mother! You are just a whore and you will always be a whore!”
In parallel, serious problems arose in his personal life. Her husband could not stand life with the dazzling beauty Angelica, went crazy from enthusiastic fans and was insanely jealous. Behind his wife's back, he used to refuse directors who offered Michelle a variety of film roles. One of these stellar roles was the role in the film "Beauty of the Day", which was offered after Catherine Deneuve.
Angelica's intrusion into Michelle's life has become not only intrusive, but also dangerous. Men who were in love with her always tormented themselves with jealousy and, it was the case, tried to kill Michelle in a fit of jealousy. And one lover disfigured her face, Michelle had to turn to plastic surgeons for help.
Once Michelle thought that happiness still exists. She fell in love and he loved her. But happiness was too fleeting. Shortly before the wedding, the lovers learned about the incurable illness of the groom, he burned out in just a couple of months. Michelle is alone again.
Melted and her career, and her savings. All the projects in which Michelle took part (producing, book publishing) were waiting for an inevitable collapse. Around her, the secular society in which she had been revolving for so long was also disappearing. Only the most faithful friends remained with her. The financial collapse forced her to sell Angelica's personal belongings and dresses, once bought from the film studio.
She left Paris and now lives in a house overlooking the sea with an abundance of palm trees. They still offer her a hand and a heart, write touching letters with words of love, but sadness has become a constant companion of this great woman.
Photo by Michel Mercier
Tatyana, specially for shop-ultra.ru
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22/02/2011 at 13:03
An amazing actress, her image is forever connected with the beautiful Angelica.
It is very, very unfortunate that her on-screen image has had such an impact on her personal life. I've watched all the movies and more than once, I'm thinking of picking up a book.