- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGermaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre
- Nicknames
- Cap
- Cappy
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- With classic patrician features and an independent, non-conformist personality, Capucine began her film debut in 1949 at the age of 21 with an appearance in the film Rendezvous in July (1949). She attended school in France and received a BA degree in foreign languages. Married for six months in her early twenties, she never remarried. In 1957, she was discovered by director Charles K. Feldman while working as a high-fashion model for Givenchy in Paris and was brought to Hollywood to study acting under Gregory Ratoff. She was put under contract by Columbia studios in 1958 and had her first leading part in the movie Song Without End (1960). She made six more major movies in the early to mid 1960s, two of which (The Lion (1962) and The 7th Dawn (1964)) starred William Holden, with whom she had a two-year affair. Moving from Hollywood to a penthouse apartment in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1962, she continued making movies, mostly in Europe, until her suicide in 1990.- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpousePierre Trabaud(1950 - 1950) (divorced)
- ChildrenNo Children
- She was a longtime friend of Audrey Hepburn, the two having met while modeling in Paris in the late 1940s. A manic-depressive, Capucine's life had on several occasions been saved by her friend (both women lived at the time in Switzerland) after repeated suicide attempts.
- Died in Lausanne, Switzerland, after jumping from her eighth-story apartment.
- Born Germain Lefebvre, she took the stage name "Capucine" during her modeling days. The name--pronounced "Kap-oo-seen"--is French for the Nasturtium flower.
- In 1952, she got a two-week job modeling clothes in fashion shows aboard a French cruise ship. She shared a cabin with a 17-year-old dancer working in the chorus of the ship's "nightclub"--Brigitte Bardot.
- Had a two-year relationship with actor William Holden, who was married at the time.
- Men spoil women in America. A woman needs to know that the man is her master.
- Every time I get in front of a camera, I think of it as an attractive man I am meeting for the first time. I find him demanding and aloof--so I must do all in my power to interest him.
- Men look at me like I'm a suspicious-looking trunk, and they're customs agents.
- [on Song Without End] I got much better as we went on. As the scenes warmed up, so did I.
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