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\"louis<\/a>To many moviegoers he was the heir to\u00a0the big-screen tradition of the\u00a0smooth-talking French lover, epitomized by 1930s matinee idols Maurice Chevalier and Charles Boyer. But throughout his career Louis Jourdan<\/a>–who passed away earlier this month at the age of 93–chafed at being pigeonholed\u00a0as charming playboys and did his best to seek out more dramatic and darker roles. And so it was that the man who fell in love with\u00a0Leslie Caron’s courtesan-in-training\u00a0in Gigi<\/a> and got into a romantic triangle with Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra in Can-Can<\/a> also menaced Doris Day in Julie<\/a>, prowled the night as Count Dracula<\/a>, threatened James Bond in Octopussy<\/a>, and even fought a once-human muck monster in Swamp Thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was born Louis Henri Gendre (he would borrow his mother’s maiden name for his professional surname) in Marseilles\u00a0in June of 1921. The son of a hotel owner, he learned English from assisting guests and\u00a0began to study acting in his late teens with Ren\u00e9 Simon at the \u00c9cole Dramatique.\u00a0Jourdan was set to make his\u00a0screen debut in\u00a01939, alongside Charles Boyer<\/a> in\u00a0Le Corsaire, but production was halted due to the start of World War II.\u00a0During the war he found intermittent movie work (including an uncredited turn alongside his brother Pierre in 1943’s The Heart of a Nation, which was smuggled out of Europe and later shown in the U.S. as Immortal France), spent a year digging ditches and doing road work in a German labor gang, and–after his father was arrested by the Gestapo–joined his siblings in the French Resistance, helping print and distribute underground leaflets.<\/p>\n

\"LETTER<\/a>After the war ended, his performances\u00a0caught the attention of a talent\u00a0scout for independent U.S. producer\u00a0David O. Selznick, and Jourdan eagerly signed a contract and headed to America. His first Hollywood role came in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1947 thriller The Paradine Case. It was the final film the director would make for Selznick, and the two clashed over the casting of Jourdan as secretive valet Andre Latour (Hitchcock feeling that the young actor’s “pretty-pretty boy” looks “destroyed the whole point of the film.”). \u00a0Paired with a fellow Frenchman–director Max Ophuls–for his sophomore project, 1948’s Letter from an Unknown Woman<\/a>, Jourdan was superb as an egotistical concert pianist whose life, over the course of several decades,\u00a0fatefully intertwines with that of the young woman (Joan Fontaine<\/a>) obsessed with him.<\/p>\n

Key roles in the late ’40s and early ’50s included Rudolphe, the aristocratic lover of married heroine Emma Bovary (Jennifer Jones<\/a>), in MGM’s adaptation of Flaubert’s controversial novel Madame Bovary<\/a> (1949); Andre, the French student who travels to Polynesia and begins a domed romance with native beauty Kalua (Debra Paget) in 1951’s Bird of Paradise<\/a>; and in a\u00a0reunion with Fontaine in the bawdy anthology drama Decameron Nights (1953). He even managed to finally\u00a0co-star with Boyer, courtesy of 1952’s The Happy Time, about a French-Canadian family living in Ottawa.<\/p>\n

\"THREE<\/a>1954 found him cast as a womanizing prince who meets an\u00a0American secretary (Maggie McNamara<\/a>) on vacation in Rome in the classic soaper Three Coins in the Fountain<\/a>\u00a0(1954). Later in ’54, Jourdan switched from movies to the stage,\u00a0making his Broadway debut in the short-lived drama The Immortalist. Based on an Andr\u00e9 Gide novel, the controversial look at a gay archeologist who marries a woman and takes her on a honeymoon in Algeria also featured Geraldine Page and James Dean (who apparently quit on opening night when Elia Kazan offered him the lead in East of Eden). Louis jumped to another medium–television–the following year, co-starring with Claude Dauphin in Paris Precinct<\/a>, a\u00a0French\/U.S. crime series which aired stateside on ABC in early 1955.<\/p>\n

Louis was a dedicated royal tutor who is used by his charges’ beautiful older sister,\u00a0princess Grace Kelly<\/a> (soon to become a princess in real life), in a ploy to make a would-be suitor jealous in\u00a01956’s The Swan<\/a>. A decidedly less sympathetic Jourdan appeared next in the implausible yet irresistible suspenser Julie, where he was the insanely jealous second husband\u00a0of former airline stewardess Doris Day<\/a>, who rightfully fears for her life when she figures out who was responsible for her first spouse’s death. Later that year he went back to France and teamed with continental sex kitten Brigitte Bardot<\/a> in the racy comedy Her Bridal Night.<\/p>\n

\"gigi<\/a>In 1958 Jourdan got the role for which he is probably best remembered:\u00a0fin de si\u00e8cle Parisian playboy Gaston, who is schooled in the art of finding a good wife and a good mistress by his worldly uncle Honor\u00e9 (Maurice Chevalier<\/a>) but along the way becomes enamored of Leslie Caron’s<\/a> title gamin, in the classic MGM musical Gigi. 1959’s The Best of Everything,<\/a> a “trio of BFFs learns hard lessons about love” sudser in the tradition of Three Coins in the Fountain,\u00a0had Louis as a callous, womanizing stage director who\u00a0beds then abandons\u00a0typist\/would-be actress Suzy Parker<\/a>, with tragic consequences. He was a judge who becomes smitten with “scandalous” nightclub dance Shirley MacLaine<\/a>\u00a0in Can-Can (1960), and was a suitably swashbuckling Edmond Dantes in a 1961 French remake of The Count of Monte Cristo (he would later play the villainous de Villefort in a 1976 made-for-TV\u00a0version<\/a> starring Richard Chamberlain).<\/p>\n

\"BEST<\/a>A fog-bound Heathrow Airport was the setting for 1963’s The V.I.P.s, where Jourdan is a sophisticated rake who convinces his latest conquest,\u00a0an actress (Elizabeth Taylor<\/a>), into leaving her\u00a0millionaire husband (Richard Burton<\/a>) and running off with him…or at least tries to convince her\u00a0(darn that fog!).\u00a0\u00a0He was a Parisian fashion designer who sets his sights on na\u00efve American gal Ann-Margret<\/a> when she comes to\u00a0France on a buying trip for her clothing store employer in the 1966 comedy\u00a0Made in Paris<\/a>, co-starring Edie Adams and Chad Everett. The City of Lights was also the setting for another romantic romp,\u00a01968’s A Flea in Her Ear<\/a>, in which Jourdan gets mixed up in the suspicions and misunderstandings of married couple Rex Harrison and Rosemary Harris.<\/p>\n

Jourdan’s big-screen appearance were\u00a0less frequent in\u00a0the late ’60s and ’70s, while he was becoming a familiar\u00a0presence on American TV.\u00a0He guest-starred on such series as The F.B.I., Columbo, Charlie’s Angels and Vega$,\u00a0 and even lent his voice to an episode of the cartoon Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo! Meanwhile, he headlined such telefilms as Run a Crooked Mile (1969) with Mary Tyler Moore, The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) as\u00a0 D’artganan, and most memorably as Bram’s Stoker’s undying, bloodsucking\u00a0nobleman in a British production, Count Dracula<\/a> (1977). He also returned to Broadway in 1978 in the comedy 13 Rue de l’Amour (Jourdan would re-team with his Gigi co-star Caron in various road productions of the play.).<\/p>\n

\"SWAMP<\/a>Another dip in the horror genre came in 1982, when Louis got the chance to camp it up\u00a0as the sinister scientist Dr. Anton Arcane in director Wes Craven’s Swamp Thing,\u00a0a\u00a0bayou-based\u00a0shocker based on the popular DC Comics series. He must have enjoyed spending time in the marshes, because Jourdan was back as the malevolent Arcane in the 1989 follow-up, The Return of Swamp Thing<\/a>. Another key villainous role\u00a0was courtesy of the long-running James Bond film franchise, when he appeared as exiled Afghan prince Kamal Khan, who is working with a renegade Soviet general and to smuggle a nuclear device into\u00a0West Germany and detonate it, in the 1983 Roger Moore<\/a>\u00a0entry Octopussy.\u00a0Jourdan, in fact, was a good friend of series producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli and had been considered for the role of Drax in Moonraker four years earlier.<\/p>\n

Following a performance as yet another nasty scientist–this time one trying to possess a priceless bottle of early 19th-century wine believed to hold the key to rejuvenation–in the\u00a0unsuccessful 1992\u00a0comedy\/thriller The Year of the Comet, Jourdan retired from the movies and lived a relatively quiet life in Beverly Hills with his\u00a0childhood sweetheart Berthe Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique. The couple were married from 1946 until her death in 2014; their only child, Louis Henry Jourdan, died from a drug overdose at the age of 29 in 1981.<\/p>\n

It’s a little ironic that the\u00a0suave ladies’ man who once said “I don’t want to be perpetually cooing in a lady’s ear. There’s not much satisfaction in it.” would wind up passing away on Valentine’s Day, but that’s what happened earlier this month. In another interview, the actor\u00a0explained that he never watched his own films when they appeared on television, saying “I click them away. Hollywood created an image and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French clich\u00e9.” As his body of work shows, Louis Jourdan was indeed much more than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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