Grainger deferred capucine biography

According to rumor, she was remembered in the wills of William Holden (to the tune of $50,000) and Peter Sellers as well as that of 20th Century-Fox studio chief Darryl F.

Zanuck.

At 21 she met her spouse on the set of the 1949 film Rendezvous in July (1949) (her first screen appearance) and married him the following year. The marriage lasted six months.

Born Germain Lefebvre, she took the stage name "Capucine" during her modeling days.

The name--pronounced "Kap-oo-seen"--is French for the Nasturtium flower.

Considered one of the great beauties of Europe.

Died in Lausanne, Switzerland, after jumping from her eighth-story apartment.

Had a two-year relationship with actor William Holden, who was married at the time.

Her French bourgeois family wanted her to become a school teacher.

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