Franco Zeffirelli

popular name: Marie Trintignant

date_of_death: August 1, 2003

age: 41

cause_of_death: Homicide - domestic violence

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Marie Trintignant was a French film and stage actress born into a well known film industry parents as her father was an actor and her mother was a director, producer and screenwriter. She appeared in over 30 movies during the span of her shortened 36-year career. She had already made five films before appearing with Patrick Dewaere in her first critical success, Série Noire (1979) at the age of 17. The next milestone in her career was with the Claude Chabrol in his Une Affaire de Femmes (The Story Of Women, 1988) in which she played a young prostitute, Lulu, in wartime Vichy France. After her narrow survival after a serious car accident in 1990, Trintignant hardly allowed the pace of her work to slacken off and during the next decade starred in 21 films, among them Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (The Lovers On The Bridge, 1991), Betty (1992, again with Chabrol) and Cible Émouvante (Wild Target, 1993) with Jean Rochefort and Guillaume Depardieu. She was a victim of domestic violence when she was murdered by her boyfriend Bertrand Cantat. Upon her death, she was laid to rest at Cimetière du Père Lachaise in Paris France.

popular name: Florence Lawrence

date_of_death: December 28, 1938

age: 52

cause_of_death: Suicide by poison (eating ant paste)

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Florence Lawrence was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as the "first movie star", and was thought to be the first film actor to be named publicly until evidence published in 2019 indicated that the first named film star was French actor Max Linder. At the height of her fame in the 1910s, she was known as the "Biograph Girl" for work as one of the leading ladies in silent films from the Biograph Company. She appeared in almost 300 films for various motion picture companies throughout her career.

popular name: Sarah Bernhardt

date_of_death: March 26, 1923

age: 78

cause_of_death: Kidney disease

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame Aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas; Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand. She also played male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rostand called her "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture", while Hugo praised her "golden voice". She made several theatrical tours around the world, and was one of the first prominent actresses to make sound recordings and to act in motion pictures. Hailed as “the Divine Sarah,” Sarah Bernhardt is recognized as the first international stage star and considered by many to be the finest actress in the world. She debuted in the title role of Racine’s Iphigénie in 1862 and built a reputation as a versatile actress with an expressive voice and poetic gestures. Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, she pursued multiple careers, buying a series of French theaters to produce modern experimental plays while touring Europe, the United States, Latin America, and Canada. She also wrote, painted, and sculpted. During a 1905 performance in Rio de Janeiro, Bernhardt badly injured her knee, which finally required amputation in 1915. Despite her injury, Bernhardt performed on stage and in films until weeks before her death. She was laid to rest atCimetière du Père Lachaise in Paris, France.