Anouk Aimee, 60s icon of French elegance, dies at 92

French star Anouk Aimee, who died on Tuesday aged 92, cast a spell over a generation of film-goers with her doomed romance in Claude Lelouch's box-office smash ‘A Man and A Woman’.
Her role as a lovelorn widow in the 1966 film famous for its ‘chabadabada, chabadabada’ theme tune won her an Oscar nomination, a Golden Globe for best actress and her entry into Hollywood.
Aimee's elegant sophistication had already made her a star of such European masterpieces as Federico Fellini's ‘La Dolce Vita’ (1960) and ‘8 ½’ (1963), and she was unforgettable as the ageing showgirl in Jacques Demy's heartbreaking musical ‘Lola’ (1961).
Fellini in particular revered her, saying her "face has the same intriguing sensuality as that of (Greta) Garbo, (Marlene) Dietrich or (Cindy) Crawford, these great mysterious queens, these priestesses of femininity.