Michèle Morgan and Henri Vidal as star couple (1949–1959): an unusual case of gender and class imbalance.
Both on and off screen, the Michèle Morgan–Henri Vidal star couple was a pair of opposites. Morgan personified an ethereal femininity on screen, but she chose as her partner the most athletic and virile actor in France, and they became one of the most glamorous French couples of the time. The quinte...
| Publicado en: | French Screen Studies Vol. 22; no. 2/3; pp. 153 - 174 |
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