Marc Allégret: From André Gide lover to Simone Simon mentor (photo: Marc Allégret) (See previous post: "Simone Simon Remembered: Sex Kitten and Femme Fatale.") Simone Simon became a film star following the international critical and financial success of the 1934 romantic drama Lac aux Dames, directed by her self-appointed mentor – and alleged lover – Marc Allégret.[1] The son of an evangelical missionary, Marc Allégret (born on December 22, 1900, in Basel, Switzerland) was to have become a lawyer. At age 16, his life took a different path as a result of his romantic involvement – and elopement to London – with his mentor and later "adoptive uncle" André Gide (1947 Nobel Prize winner in Literature), more than 30 years his senior and married to Madeleine Rondeaux for more than two decades. In various forms – including a threesome with painter Théo Van Rysselberghe's daughter Elisabeth – the Allégret-Gide relationship remained steady until the late '20s and their trip to...
- 2/28/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Justin Bieber is reaching out to fans and fellow celebrities to help raise funds for three orphaned and paralyzed children in Texas. How sweet!
Justin Bieber‘s Twitter following of 11 million makes him the perfect celeb to bring attention to a family in need — and that’s just what he’s doing! Justin started the ‘Show Your Hearts’ campaign after a car accident earlier this month left the Berry children of West Texas orphaned and paralyzed.
Celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Britney Spears are taking to Twitter to promote the campaign by posting their heart-hand sign or using the hashtag #showyourhearts.
Justin asks people to donate money through the website or by texting Berry to 85944 and it appears they’re listening! “seeing you all come together for #showyourhearts is pretty amazing,” Justin tweeted July 27, “super grateful and proud of my fans.”
The money raised through the ‘Show Your Hearts’ campaign...
Justin Bieber‘s Twitter following of 11 million makes him the perfect celeb to bring attention to a family in need — and that’s just what he’s doing! Justin started the ‘Show Your Hearts’ campaign after a car accident earlier this month left the Berry children of West Texas orphaned and paralyzed.
Celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Britney Spears are taking to Twitter to promote the campaign by posting their heart-hand sign or using the hashtag #showyourhearts.
Justin asks people to donate money through the website or by texting Berry to 85944 and it appears they’re listening! “seeing you all come together for #showyourhearts is pretty amazing,” Justin tweeted July 27, “super grateful and proud of my fans.”
The money raised through the ‘Show Your Hearts’ campaign...
- 7/27/2011
- by Alli Holt
- HollywoodLife
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