Marie France - Elle était une fois

2003, French, Marie France,

Original title: "Elle était une fois" (Once upon a time).

"Deep down, I always thought I was a work of art.", confesses Marie France. Her radiant beauty - of which Gainsbourg spoke for twenty years - and her formidable appetite for life soon made this young repatriate from Algeria a key figure in Parisian nightlife. From Montparnasse to Pigalle via Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Marie France has known everything about celebration, its pleasures as well as its pitfalls.

From Castel to La Coupole, from 7 to Palace, she seduces and fascinates. Marie France became a muse, and the accomplice of all those who shook the France of the 60s, from the "Gang of the Dome" (P. Clémenti, J.-P. Kalfon, B. Ogier, J.-J. Schuhl, J. Eustache...) through the fathers of the punk movement (Y. Adrien, A. Pacadis, P. Eudeline...) t0 the famous Gazolines.

According to Wikipedia, Marie-France Garcia, known as Marie France, was born in 1946 in Oran in Algeria. She is a French singer and actress, known for her performances at the Alcazar cabaret in the Latin Quarter, where her impersonation of Marilyn Monroe made her famous. After having made the heyday of the Coupole with Bulle Ogier and Bernadette Lafont, the Bus Palladium and Régine, Marie France performed at the Sept and Serge Kruger before becoming one of the muses of the Palace. She is then one of the key figures of the Parisian underground. It was during this period that she was said to be the muse of Salvador Dalí and courted by Aristotle Onassis.

In 1979, she continued her acting career in the theater, in Marguerite Duras' Le Navire Night, after making her debut in the play Maggy Moon based on Arthur Miller. In 1993, she recorded a cover of À quoi ça sert l'amour? by Édith Piaf, in duet with Marc Almond, who gave her the song Shéhérazade for her album Marie France.  She was featured in 30 films and 6 theatre plays, and she can boast of 9 music albums.

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