Michèle Méritz
{{short description|French actress}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Michèle Méritz
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|9|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = Paris, France
| death_date = {{Death date and age |1998|5|28|1923|9|24|df=y}}
| death_place = Carcassonne, France
| years_active = 1959–1965
}}
Michèle Méritz (September 24, 1923 – May 28, 1998), born Micheline Rosa Mitz, was a French actress.{{Cite web|url= https://en.unifrance.org/directories/person/7909/michele-meritz|title= Michèle Méritz|publisher=unifrance.org|access-date=2025-04-14}}
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
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Director |
|---|
| 1958
|Yvonne |
| 1959
|Yvonne |Claude Chabrol |
| rowspan=2|1960
|Sophie Fargier |
| La Millième Fenêtre
|Maggy Tourtet |
| 1961
|Le Rendez-vous de minuit |Christiane |
| 1962
|L'Aztec's mother |
| 1965
|Le Temps d'apprendre à vivre |Anna |Henri Graziani |
References
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External links
{{Portal|France|Biography|Film}}
- {{IMDb name|0617741}}
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