Article: Failed ballerina: Jeanne Moreau. (New York, New York Museum of Modern Art retrospective)

MAE WEST was astonished when an admirer enthused over an old film of hers he had seen at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). "Museum," intoned Miss West, "Whaddya mean, a museum, honey?" Such outraged surprise is not the reaction of Jeanne Moreau, the French actress who has already been honoured with a retrospective of 50 films at Lausanne's Cin(acute)emath(grave)eque Suisse, including such classics as Fran(cedilla)cois Truffaut's "Jules et Jim," and "La mari(acute)ee (acute)etait en noir", Michelangelo Antonioni's "La Notte," Orson Welles's "The Trial" and "Chimes at Midnight," Luis Bunuel's "Journal d'une femme de chambre" and many others. Miss Moreau says of the ...

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