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Jean Seberg

Jean Seberg (Nov 13 1938 - September 8 1979). Born Marshalltown Iowa. Discovered by Otto Preminger who directed her in her first two films. Her first film was Saint Joan. Her most famous role was as Patricia in the new wave classic Breathless or A Bout de Souffle by Jean Luc-Godard in 1960. Seberg's favourite film of her career was the film 'Lilith' by Robert Rossen, where she plays a schizophrenic patient. Committed suicide by overdose in Paris 1979.


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Jean Seberg - what members say


  • Breathless
  • Breathless review by from Scotland
    Rated - 5 stars The Coolest Film Ever Made........ 2 June 2004
    ...coolest and best films ever made. If you watch this and don't want to be either Jean Seberg or Jean-Paul Belmondo then you're dead....  
  • Bonjour Tristesse
  • Bonjour Tristesse review by A customer from Whitley Bay
    Rated - 2 stars Soapy Stuff from Seberg 25 August 2005
    ... this film, but it's well worth seeing , if only for the central performance of Jean Seberg. She plays a spoilt brat teenager who is holidaying on the French Riviera with ...  
  • Lilith
  • Lilith review by A customer from London, UK
    Rated - 4 stars Flawed but interesting 29 August 2006
    ... but its melodramatic style is lifted by sensitive performances from the tragic Jean Seberg and a less cocky than usual Warren Beatty. Director Robert Rossen, who also wro...  

Jean Seberg - filmography


  • Paint Your Wagon
  • Paint Your Wagon on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Lee Marvin,  Clint Eastwood,  Jean Seberg
    Director: Joshua Logan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin break out of their traditional screen personas in this offbeat western musical comedy with a memorable Lerner and Loewe score. Pardner (Eastwood) and Ben Rumson (Marvin) are two buddies who share everything, including their wife Elizabeth (Jean Seberg), whom they ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,066 members
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  • Lilith
  • Lilith on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Warren Beatty,  Peter Fonda,  Gene Hackman
    Director: Robert Rossen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Vincent Bruce (Warren Beatty) is an idealistic young war veteran who has just begun working as a therapist in a mental institution in his Maryland hometown. His first patient is a sex-obsessed schizophrenic named Lilith (Jean Seberg), who quickly becomes smitten with him. At first, Vincent ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 88 members
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  • Breathless
  • Breathless on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Jean Seberg,  Jean-Paul Belmondo,  Jean-Pierre Melville
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Godard's first feature has been widely hailed as one of the most influential motion pictures ever made. On the run after killing a cop, a small-time crook (Belmondo) hides out in Paris with an American girl (Seberg). After she betrays him, he chooses to face his fate with an absurd stoicism ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 6,647 members
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  • Saint Joan
  • Saint Joan (1957)
    Starring: Richard Widmark,  Richard Todd,  John Gieldgud
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 8 members
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