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

Bonjour Tristesse review by A customer from Whitley Bay

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 review by A customer from London, UK

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 on DVD (1971)
Starring: Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg
Director: Joshua Logan
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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 ...

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Airport on DVD (1970)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg
Director: George Seaton
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One of the original 'disaster' movies, this all-star nail-biter follows a series of emergencies at a large Midwestern airport on a snowy night. The weather's bad enough, but then a passenger threatens to blow up an inbound plane. Based on Arthur Hailey's novel. Sequels include Airport 1975, Airport ...

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Lilith on DVD (1964)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Peter Fonda, Gene Hackman
Director: Robert Rossen
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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 ...

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The Mouse That Roared on DVD (1959)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, David Kossoff
Director: Jack Arnold
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In Jack Arnold's satirical film, the world's smallest country, the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, keeps its economy afloat by exporting their wine, Pinot Grand Fenwick, to America. When the state of California bottles a cheaper version, Pinot Grand Enwick, bankruptcy looms for the tiny Duchy, so it ...

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Saint Joan (1957)
Starring: Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, John Gieldgud
Director: Otto Preminger
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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.

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The Claude Chabrol Collection - Volume 2 (6 discs) on DVD
Starring: Jean Seberg, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniele Gegauff
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Includes the Claude Chabrol films The Road To Corinth (1967), The Breach (1970), Pleasure Party (1975), Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975), Cop au Vin (1985) and The Flower of Evil (2003).

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Jean-Luc Godard Collection Vol.1 (4 discs) on DVD
Starring: Laszlo Szabo, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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One of the founders of the French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard has been responsible for creating some of the most innovative and daring films during the past four decades. This set features four of his best known films - ALPHAVILLE, PASSION, A BOUT DE SOUFFLE and MADE IN THE USA.

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Bonjour Tristesse on DVD
Starring: Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg
Director: Otto Preminger
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Cecile and her father Raymond live a luxurious life, filled with pleasure-seeking excesses. All this is threatened, however, when Raymond decides to marry Cecile's conservative godmother, Anne. Desperate to maintain her lifestyle, Cecile plots to drive Anne away... Based on Francoise Sagan's ...

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Jean Seberg - downloads

Whos Got The Black Box for Download (1969)
Starring: Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Run time: 90 minutes
When US radar installations in Greece are jammed and an undercover NATO security man is killed, suspicion falls on his widow, who sets out to find the real culprits and prove herself innocent.

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Jean Seberg facts

5 most recent films

Paint Your Wagon - 3.5 stars
Airport - 3.0 stars
Lilith - 3.0 stars
The Mouse That Roared - 3.0 stars
Saint Joan - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Paint Your Wagon - 3.5 stars
Jean-Luc Godard Collection Vol.1 - 3.5 stars
The Mouse That Roared - 3.0 stars
Airport - 3.0 stars
Bonjour Tristesse - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Saint Joan - 2.5 stars
The Claude Chabrol Collection - Volume 2 - 3.0 stars
Lilith - 3.0 stars
Bonjour Tristesse - 3.0 stars
Airport - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Maurice Ronet - 2 times - show films
Richard Todd - 1 times - show films
Paula Trueman - 1 times - show films
Jean Poiret - 1 times - show films
Helen Hayes - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Claude Chabrol - 2 times - show films
Otto Preminger - 2 times - show films
Robert Rossen - 1 times - show films
Joshua Logan - 1 times - show films
Jean-Luc Godard - 1 times - show films