Michèle Méritz (September 24, 1923 – May 28, 1998), born Micheline Rosa Mitz, was a French actress.
Biography
Méritz studied at the Cours Simon during the 1950s. While acting in Claude Chabrol's Le Beau Serge, she told him a story outline about a woman who wants to have a child with her boyfriend despite not being married, which Chabrol passed on to Philippe de Broca, who used it as the basis for his first full-length film, Les Jeux de l'amour; Jean-Luc Godard, who had worked with de Broca on the script, later used it as the basis for his own 1961 film A Woman Is a Woman.Richard Brody, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard (Macmillan, 2008), pp. 76-77. In 1960, along with Gérard Lebovici, she founded the Meritz-Lebovici management agency, whose first two clients were de Broca and Jean-Pierre Cassel; in 1970 it merged with the André Bernheim agency and became Artmedia.Jean-Michel Frodon, L'Âge moderne du cinéma français: De la Nouvelle Vague à nos jours (Flammarion, 1995), p. 188.
Selected filmography Year Title Role Director1958Le Beau SergeYvonneClaude Chabrol1959Les CousinsYvonneClaude Chabrol1960Classe tous risquesSophie FargierClaude SautetLa Millième FenêtreMaggy TourtetRobert Ménégoz1961Le Rendez-vous de minuitChristianeRoger Leenhardt1962War of the ButtonsL'Aztec's motherYves Robert1965Le Temps d'apprendre à vivreAnnaHenri Graziani
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