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Article: CLAUDE JADE ; Actress beloved of Truffaut who played Christine in 'Stolen Kisses'
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 9, 2006
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The French actress Claude Jade made many films for the cinema and
television, and had a notable stage career, but she will best be
remembered for her performances for the director Francois Truffaut
in three films.
Truffaut had introduced the character of Antoine Doinel as a
young boy in the director's debut feature, Les Quatre cents coups (
The Four Hundred Blows, 1959), which was to be the first of five
films following the course of the young man's life over 20 years.
Jade made her screen debut in the third, Baisers voles ( Stolen
Kisses, 1968), in which Jean-Pierre Leaud again played Truffaut's
alter ego Doinel, and Jade played Christine Darbon, the violin
student who becomes his ...
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