Véra Clouzot

Véra GibsonAmado known professionally as Véra Clouzot 30 December 1913 15 December 1960 was a BrazilianFrench film actress and screenwriter She is known for playing Linda in The Wages of Fear 1953 Christina Delassalle in Les Diaboliques 1955 and Lucie in Les Espions 1957 Clouzot also cowrote the screenplay for La Vérité 1960 Her husband director HenriGeorges Clouzot named his production company after her Véra Films Clouzot was born Véra GibsonAmado in Rio de Janeiro Brazil to Alice do Rego Barros and Gilberto Amado a Brazilian congressman writer journalist lawyer and exPresident of the United Nations International Law Committee Writer Jorge Amado was her second cousin In 1941 Véra met French actor Léo Lapara a member of the theater company of Louis Jouvet who toured in Brazil during World War II Vera married the actor taking part in the companys South American tour that lasted almost four years After World War II Vera settled in Paris Louis Jouvet took over the direction of the Athenée Theater while she continued to do small roles Véra met film director HenriGeorges Clouzot through her thenhusband Léo Lapara who had minor parts in Quai des Orfèvres 1947 and Return to Life 1949 in the segment directed by Clouzot Le Retour de Jean Véra worked as a continuity assistant on Clouzots Miquette 1950 and they married in 1950 Clouzot named his production company Véra Films after his wife She made only three films all directed by her husband The sole female role in The Wages of Fear 1953 Linda is played by Véra Clouzot wrote the role specifically for his wife as the character does not exist in the original novel The Wages of Fear is about a South American town where a group of desperate men are offered money to drive trucks carrying nitroglycerin through rough terrain to put out an oil well fire The Wages of Fear was the 4th highestgrossing film in France in 1953 and was seen by nearly 7 million spectators The most notable of Clouzots films starring Véra was the classic thriller Les Diaboliques 1955 costarring Simone Signoret She also starred in Les Espions 1957 and cowrote the screenplay for the film La Vérité 1960 which was also directed by her husband Clouzot and Véra took a film crew with them to Véras homeland in Brazil for their honeymoon where Clouzot made his first attempt at directing a documentary film The Brazilian government took issue with Clouzot filming the poverty of people in the favelas rather than the more picturesque parts of Brazil The film was never finished because the costs became too high Clouzot became fascinated with the region and wrote a book Le cheval des dieux recounting his trip Véra died in Paris in 1960 aged 46 from a heart attack shortly after the filming of La Vérité HenriGeorges Clouzot fell into a depression over her death After her funeral he moved to Tahiti but returned to France in December 1961 She is buried in the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris Source Article Véra Clouzot from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30