Editing Michèle Morgan

{{short description|French actress}}
{{for|other people named Michele or Michelle Morgan|Michelle Morgan (disambiguation)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}}

{{Infobox person
| name               = Michèle Morgan
| image              = Michèle Morgan - The Chase.jpg
| image_size         = 
| caption            = Morgan in 1946
| birth_name         = Simone Renée Roussel
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1920|2|29|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]], [[French Third Republic|France]]
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|2016|12|20|1920|2|29|df=y}}
| death_place        = [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]], France
| resting_place      = [[Montparnasse Cemetery]], [[Paris]], France
| occupation         = Actress
| years_active       = 1935–1999
| spouse             = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[William Marshall (bandleader)|William Marshall]]<br>|1942|1948|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|[[Henri Vidal]]<br>|1950|1959|end=died}}
* {{marriage|[[Gérard Oury]]<br>|1960|2006|end=died}}
}}
| children           = [[Mike Marshall (actor)|Mike Marshall]]
| relatives          = [[Sarah Marshall (French model)|Sarah Marshall]] (granddaughter)
}}

'''Michèle Morgan''' ({{IPA|fr|miʃɛl mɔʁɡan|lang}}; born '''Simone Renée Roussel'''; 29 February 1920 – 20 December 2016) was a French film actress, who was a leading lady for three decades in both [[Cinema of France|French cinema]] and [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] features. She is considered one of the greatest French actresses of the 20th century.<ref name="lefigobit">{{cite news|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2016/12/20/97001-20161220FILWWW00252-la-comedienne-michele-morgan-est-morte.php?xtor=EPR-211|title=Décès de la comédienne Michèle Morgan|date=20 December 2016|work=Le Figaro|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref> Morgan was the inaugural winner of the [[Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress|Best Actress Award]] at the [[Cannes Film Festival]]. In 1992, she was given an honorary [[César Award]] for her contributions to [[Cinema of France|French cinema.]]

==Early life==
Morgan was born Simone Renée Roussel<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cinema.encyclopedie.personnalites.bifi.fr/index.php?pk=36040 |title=Michèle Morgan |work=Cinémathèque française |access-date=20 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071029095434/http://cinema.encyclopedie.personnalites.bifi.fr/index.php?pk=36040 |archive-date=29 October 2007 }}</ref> in [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]], [[Hauts-de-Seine]], a suburb of Paris.<ref name="lemondeobit">{{cite news|last1=Blumenfeld|first1=Samuel|title=Mort de Michèle Morgan, légendaire actrice du " Quai des brumes "|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2016/12/20/mort-de-l-actrice-michele-morgan-rendue-celebre-par-son-role-dans-le-quai-des-brumes_5052118_3382.html|access-date=20 December 2016|work=Le Monde|date=20 December 2016}}</ref><ref name="washingtonpostobit">{{cite news|last1=Bernstein|first1=Adam|title=Michèle Morgan, lustrous French actress of 'Port of Shadows,' dies at 96|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/michele-morgan-lustrous-french-actress-of-port-of-shadows-dies-at-96/2016/12/20/b5e66d78-c6f1-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html|access-date=20 December 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=20 December 2016}}</ref> She grew up in [[Dieppe]], [[Seine-Maritime]], France.<ref name="lemondeobit"/><ref name="washingtonpostobit"/>

==Career==
Morgan left home at the age of 15 for Paris determined to become an actress.<ref name="lemondeobit"/><ref name="hollywoodreporterobit">{{cite news|last1=Cheng|first1=Cheryl|title=Michele Morgan, French Actress in 'The Fallen Idol,' Dies at 96|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michele-morgan-french-actress-fallen-idol-dies-at-96-958050|access-date=20 December 2016|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=20 December 2016}}</ref> She took acting lessons from [[René Simon]] while serving as an extra in several films to pay for her drama classes.<ref name="lemondeobit"/> It was then that she took the stage name "Michèle Morgan".<ref name="lemondeobit"/> She argued that she did not have the body type of a Simone, and "Morgan" sounded more Hollywood-friendly.<ref name="lemondeobit"/>

Morgan was first noticed by director [[Marc Allégret]], who offered her a major role in the film ''[[Gribouille (film)|Gribouille]]'' (1937), opposite [[Raimu]].<ref name="lemondeobit"/> Then came ''[[Le Quai des brumes]]'' (1938) directed by [[Marcel Carné]] and ''[[Remorques]]'' (1941) directed by [[Jean Grémillon]], both opposite [[Jean Gabin]].<ref name="lemondeobit"/>
[[File:Michele Morgan in The Vintage 2.jpg|right|thumb|From the trailer for ''[[The Vintage]]'' (1957)]]
Upon the [[Battle of France|invasion of France]] in 1940 by the Germans, Morgan left for the United States and Hollywood where she was contracted to [[RKO Pictures]] in 1941.<ref name="lemondeobit"/> Her career there proved rather disappointing, apart from ''[[Joan of Paris]]'' (1942) opposite [[Paul Henreid]], and ''[[Higher and Higher (film)|Higher and Higher]]'' (1943) opposite [[Frank Sinatra]].<ref name="washingtonpostobit"/> She was tested and strongly considered for the female lead in ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'' but [[RKO]] would not release her for the amount of money that [[Warner Bros.]] offered.<ref>{{cite book |page=107 |last=Lanzoni |first=Rémi Fournier |title=French Cinema: From its Beginnings to the Present |year=2004 |publisher=Continium International Publishing Group}}</ref> Morgan did work for Warners, however, in ''[[Passage to Marseille]]'' (1944) with [[Humphrey Bogart]].<ref name="lemondeobit"/>

[[File:Michèle Morgan Césars.jpg|180px|right|thumb|Morgan in 1995]]
After the war, Morgan returned to France and quickly resumed her career with the film ''[[La Symphonie Pastorale (film)|La Symphonie Pastorale]]'' (1946) directed by [[Jean Delannoy]], which earned her the [[Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)|Best Actress award]] at the [[Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="lemondeobit"/> Her other films from this period include; [[Carol Reed]]'s ''[[The Fallen Idol (film)|The Fallen Idol]]'' (1948), ''[[Fabiola (1949 film)|Fabiola]]'' (1949), ''[[Les Orgueilleux|The Proud and the Beautiful]]'' (1953) by Yves Allégret, ''[[Les Grandes Manœuvres]]'' (1955) by [[René Clair]] and ''[[Marie-Antoinette reine de France]]'' (1956).<ref name="washingtonpostobit"/> She continued working in films throughout the 1960s, such as in ''[[Lost Command]]'' (1966), a version of ''[[Les Centurions]]''.<ref name="washingtonpostobit"/> In the 1970s, she virtually retired from her acting career, then made only occasional appearances in film, television and theatre.<ref name="washingtonpostobit"/>

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Morgan has a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 1645 Vine Street.<ref name="hollywoodreporterobit"/> In 1969, the government of France awarded her the [[Légion d'Honneur]].<ref name="hollywoodreporterobit"/> For her long service to the French motion picture industry, in 1992 she was given an [[César Award|Honorary César Award]].<ref name="hollywoodreporterobit"/> In 1996, she also received the [[Golden Lion|Career Golden Lion]] for lifetime achievement at the [[Venice Film Festival]].<ref name="hollywoodreporterobit"/>

Morgan took up painting in the 1960s.<ref name="washingtonpostobit" /> She had a solo exhibition, "Artistes En Lumière à Paris", from 2 March to 30 April 2009, at the Espace Cardin in Paris.<ref name="francedimanchejetouche">{{cite news|last1=Pouly-Seguin|first1=Sophie|title=Michèle Morgan : » Je touche encore le sol avec mes mains ! »|url=http://www.francedimanche.fr/interview-les-journalistes-ont-la-parole/michele-morgan-je-touche-encore-le-sol-avec-mes-mains/|access-date=21 December 2016|work=France Dimanche|date=26 February 2010}}</ref> In 1977 she released her memoir, titled ''With Those Eyes'' (''Avec ces yeux-là'').<ref name="lemondeobit" />

==Personal life and death==
While in Hollywood, Morgan married [[William Marshall (bandleader)|William Marshall]] (1917–1994), in 1942, with whom she had a son, [[Mike Marshall (actor)|Mike Marshall]] (1944–2005).<ref name="washingtonpostobit"/> Morgan had built and owned a house at [[10050 Cielo Drive]]. Morgan and Marshall divorced in 1948. She married French actor [[Henri Vidal]] (1919–1959) in 1950. She remained with him until his death in 1959. She then lived with film director and actor/writer [[Gérard Oury]] until his death in 2006.<ref name="washingtonpostobit"/>

Morgan died on 20 December 2016, aged 96, in [[Meudon]], France of natural causes.<ref name="lemondeobit"/><ref name="washingtonpostobit"/> Her funeral was held at the Église Saint-Pierre in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 23 December 2016, and she was buried at the [[Montparnasse Cemetery]].<ref name="lefigobit"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38389507|title=Michele Morgan: French actress and glamour icon dies at 96|work=BBC News |date=21 December 2016}}</ref>

Despite living to the age of 96, she technically only had 24 birthdays due to being born on 29 February.

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! scope="col"| Year
! scope="col"| Title
! scope="col"| Role
! scope="col"| Director
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1935
|''[[Mademoiselle Mozart]]''<ref name="lubbockmichelemorgan">{{cite news|last1=Ferris|first1=Irene|title=Michele Morgan, The Garbo of France, Returns Home Without Her Young Son|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/6765352/?terms=%22Mademoiselle%2BMozart%22%2B%22michele%2Bmorgan%22|access-date=21 December 2016|work=Lubbock Avalanche-Journal|location=Lubbock, Texas|date=November 21, 1960|page=16|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|url-access=registration |quote=She made her screen debut at 15 in "Mademoiselle Mozart" in France.}}</ref>
|The trainer of the white elephant
|Yvan Noé
|credited as Simone Morgan
|-
|1937
|''[[Gribouille (film)|Gribouille]]''<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=The Companion to French Cinema|last=Vincendeau|first=Ginette|publisher=Cassell|year=1996}}</ref>
|Nathalie Roguin
|[[Marc Allégret]]
|remade as ''[[The Lady in Question]]'' in 1940
|-
|rowspan=3|1938
|''[[Orage (film)|Orage]]''<ref name=":1" />
|Françoise Massart
|Marc Allégret 
|with [[Charles Boyer]]
|-
|''[[Port of Shadows]]''<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present|last=Lanzoni|first=Rémi Fournier|publisher=A & C Black|year=2004}}</ref>
|Nelly
|[[Marcel Carné]]
|with [[Jean Gabin]]
|-
|''[[Nightclub Hostess]]''<ref name="vincendeau143">{{cite book|last1=Vincendeau|first1=Ginette|title=The Companion to French Cinema|date=1996|publisher=British Film Institute|location=London, U.K.|isbn=9780304341573|oclc=35683584|page=143}}</ref>
|Suzy
|Albert Valentin
|written by [[Charles Spaak]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1939
|''[[Coral Reefs (film)|Coral Reefs]]''<ref name="lemondeobit"/>
|Lilian White
|Maurice Gleize
|with [[Jean Gabin]]
|-
|''[[Musicians of the Sky]]''<ref name="bfilesmusiciens">{{cite web|title=Les MUSICIENS DU CIEL (1939)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b74a73a21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222082515/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b74a73a21|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Lieutenant Saulnier
|[[Georges Lacombe (film director)|Georges Lacombe]]
|with [[Michel Simon]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1940
|''[[Stormy Waters (1941 film)|Stormy Waters]]''<ref name="lemondeobit"/>
|Catherine
|[[Jean Grémillon]]
|based on [[Troubled Waters (Vercel novel)|a novel]] by [[Roger Vercel]]
|-
|''[[The Heart of a Nation]]''<ref name="bfiuntel">{{cite web|title=UNTEL PÈRE ET FILS (1943)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b98288c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160726153655/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b98288c|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 July 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Marie Froment-Léonard
|[[Julien Duvivier]]
|with [[Raimu]]
|-
|1941
|''[[My Life with Caroline]]''<ref name="canalplusbio">{{cite web|title=MICHELE MORGAN|url=http://www.canalplus.fr/cinema/c-les-films-en-salles/cid174322-michele-morgan.html|website=Canal+|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|"Annette" (uncredited)
|[[Lewis Milestone]]
|written by [[John Van Druten]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1942
|''[[La Loi du nord]]''<ref name="bfilaloidunord">{{cite web|title=La LOI DU NORD (1939)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b73a8712f|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222082632/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b73a8712f|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Jacqueline Bert
|[[Jacques Feyder]]
|based on a novel by [[Maurice Constantin-Weyer]]
|-
|''[[Joan of Paris]]''<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Hollywood Gold: Films of the Forties and Fifties|last=Reid|first=John Howard|publisher=Lulu|year=2005}}</ref>
|Joan
|[[Robert Stevenson (director)|Robert Stevenson]]
|with [[Paul Henreid]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1943
|''[[Two Tickets to London]]''<ref name=":2" />
|Jeanne
|[[Edwin L. Marin]]
|with [[Alan Curtis (American actor)|Alan Curtis]]
|-
|''[[Higher and Higher (film)|Higher and Higher]]''<ref name=":2" />
|Millie Pico alias Paméla Drake
|[[Tim Whelan]]
|[[Frank Sinatra]]'s film debut
|-
|1944
|''[[Passage to Marseille]]''<ref name=":0" />
|Paula
|[[Michael Curtiz]]
|with [[Humphrey Bogart]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1946
|''[[The Chase (1946 film)|The Chase]]''<ref name=":0" />
|Lorna Roman
|[[Arthur Ripley]]
|with [[Robert Cummings]]
|-
| ''[[Pastoral Symphony (film)|Pastoral Symphony]]''<ref name="lemondeobit"/>
|Gertrude (the young blind woman)
|[[Jean Delannoy]]
|[[Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress]] <br/> with [[Pierre Blanchar]]
|-
|1947
|''[[The Fallen Idol (film)|The Fallen Idol]]''<ref name="washingtonpostobit"/>
|Julie
|[[Carol Reed]]
|with [[Ralph Richardson]] and [[Bobby Henrey]].
|-
|1948
|''[[To the Eyes of Memory]]''<ref name="bfiauxyeuxdusouvenir">{{cite web|title=AUX YEUX DU SOUVENIR (1948)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a6db531|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222082405/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a6db531|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Claire Magny
|Jean Delannoy
|with [[Jean Marais]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1949
|''[[Fabiola (1949 film)|The Fighting Gladiator]]''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Epic Films: Casts, Credits and Commentary on More Than 350 Historical Spectacle Movies|last=Smith|first=Gary Allen|publisher=MacFarland|year=2004|location=North Carolina, U.S.}}</ref>
|Fabiola
|[[Alessandro Blasetti]]
|with [[Henri Vidal]]
|-
|''[[La Belle que voilà|Here Is the Beauty]]''<ref name="bfilabellequevoila">{{cite web|title=La BELLE QUE VOILÀ (1950)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a5a1da2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222083709/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a5a1da2|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Jeanne Morel
|[[Jean-Paul Le Chanois]]
|based on a novel by [[Vicki Baum]]
|-
|rowspan=3|1950
|''[[Le Château de verre|The Glass Castle]]''<ref name=":1" />
|Evelyne Lorin-Bertal
|[[René Clément]]
|two versions, one filmed in Italian
|-
|''[[The Strange Madame X]]''<ref name="bfiletrange">{{cite web|title=L' ÉTRANGE MME X (1951)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b713359b6|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222084435/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b713359b6|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Irène Voisin-Larive
|[[Jean Grémillon]]
|with [[Henri Vidal]]
|-
|''[[The Naked Heart]]''<ref name="lemondeobit"/>
|Maria Chapdelaine
|Marc Allégret
|based on the novel by [[Louis Hémon]]
|-
|1951
|''[[The Seven Deadly Sins (1952 film)|The Seven Deadly Sins]]''<ref name="bfiles7peches">{{cite web|title=Les 7 PÉCHÉS CAPITAUX (1952)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b57986c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222084214/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b57986c|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Anne-Marie de Pallières
|[[Claude Autant-Lara]]
|episode "Pride"
|-
|1952
|''[[La Minute de vérité|The Moment of Truth]]''<ref name="bfilora">{{cite web|title=L' ORA DELLA VERITA (1952)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7b2784ca|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222084331/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7b2784ca|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
| Madeleine Richard
|Jean Delannoy
|with [[Jean Gabin]]
|-
|1953
|''[[The Proud and the Beautiful]]''<ref name="bfilesorgueilleux">{{cite web|title=Les ORGUEILLEUX (1953)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b24b21f|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222151837/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b24b21f|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Nelly
|[[Yves Allégret]]
|with [[Gérard Philipe]]
|-
|rowspan=3|1954
|''[[Destinées|Love, Soldiers and Women]]''<ref name="washingtonpostobit"/>
|[[Joan of Arc]]
|Jean Delannoy
|episode "Jeanne"
|-
|''[[Obsession (1954 film)|Obsession]]''<ref name="bfiobsession">{{cite web|title=OBSESSION (1954)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b1d4c4e|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222084447/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b1d4c4e|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Hélène Giovanni
|Jean Delannoy
|based on a novel by [[Cornell Woolrich]]
|-
|''[[Napoléon (1955 film)|Napoléon]]''<ref name="lemondeobit"/>
|[[Joséphine de Beauharnais]]
|[[Sacha Guitry]]
|[[Daniel Gélin]]/[[Raymond Pellegrin]] as [[Napoléon]]
|-
|rowspan=4|1955
|''[[The Grand Maneuver]]''<ref name="lemondeobit"/>
|Marie-Louise Rivière
|[[René Clair]]
|with [[Gérard Philipe]]
|-
|''[[Marguerite de la nuit|Marguerite of the Night]]''<ref name="bfimarguerite">{{cite web|title=MARGUERITE DE LA NUIT (1956)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6aff168e|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222083441/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6aff168e|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Marguerite
|Claude Autant-Lara
|with [[Yves Montand]]
|-
|''[[Marie Antoinette Queen of France]]''<ref name="lemondeobit"/>
|[[Marie Antoinette|Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France]]
|Jean Delannoy
|with [[Richard Todd]]
|-
|''[[If Paris Were Told to Us]]''<ref name="bfisiparisnousetait">{{cite web|title=SI PARIS NOUS ÉTAIT CONTÉ (1956)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b76c63942|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222084031/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b76c63942|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|[[Gabrielle d'Estrées]]
|Sacha Guitry
|portraying the mistress of [[Henry IV of France]]
|-
|1956
|''[[Oasis (1955 film)|Oasis]]''<ref name="bfiloase">{{cite web|title=L' OASE (1955)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b1d1a7b|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222084004/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b1d1a7b|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Françoise Lignières
|Yves Allégret
|with [[Pierre Brasseur]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1957
|''[[The Vintage]]''<ref name="bfivintage">{{cite web|title=The Vintage (1957)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b9e78cb|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222084104/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b9e78cb|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Léonne Morel
|[[Jeffrey Hayden]]
|with [[Mel Ferrer]]
|-
|''[[Retour de manivelle|There's Always a Price Tag]]''<ref name="bfiretourdemanivelle">{{cite web|title=RETOUR DE MANIVELLE (1957)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b4345bf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222083319/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b4345bf|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Hélène Fréminger
|[[Denys de La Patellière]]
|with [[Daniel Gélin]] and [[Peter van Eyck]]
|-
|rowspan=3|1958
|''[[Le Miroir à deux faces|The Mirror Has Two Faces]]''<ref name="bfilemiroiradeuxfaces">{{cite web|title=Le MIROIR À DEUX FACES (1958)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b083f25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222084229/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b083f25|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Marie-Josée Tardivet, Pierre's wife
|[[André Cayatte]]
|with [[Bourvil]] and [[Ivan Desny]]
|-
|''[[Maxime (film)|Maxime]]''<ref name="bfimaxime">{{cite web|title=MAXIME (1958)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b02344a|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222154043/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b02344a|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Jacqueline Monneron
|[[Henri Verneuil]]
|with [[Charles Boyer]]
|-
|''[[Girls for the Summer]]''<ref name="bfiracconti">{{cite web|title=RACCONTI D'ESTATE (1958)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b3c9149|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222082234/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b3c9149|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Micheline
|[[Gianni Franciolini]]
|comedy with [[Alberto Sordi]]
|-
|rowspan=4|1959
|''[[Menschen im Hotel]]''<ref name="bfimenschen">{{cite web|title=MENSCHEN IM HOTEL (1959)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b046383|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222083511/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b046383|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|La Grusinskaïa
|[[Gottfried Reinhardt]]
|with [[O. W. Fischer]]
|-
|''[[Winter Holidays]]''<ref name="bfivacanze">{{cite web|title=VACANZE D'INVERNO (1959)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b99aa97|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222082340/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b99aa97|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Steffa Tardier
|[[Camillo Mastrocinque]]
|with [[Georges Marchal]]
|-
|''[[Les Scélérats|The Wretches]]''<ref name="bfilesscelerats">{{cite web|title=Les SCÉLÉRATS (1960)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b52a0c7|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222082416/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b52a0c7|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Thelma Rooland
|[[Robert Hossein]]
|with [[Olivier Hussenot]]
|-
|''[[Pourquoi viens-tu si tard?|Why Do You Come So Late?]]''<ref name="bfipourquoivienstusitard">{{cite web|title=POURQUOI VIENS-TU SI TARD? (1959)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b75ad113f|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222082352/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b75ad113f|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Catherine Ferrer
|[[Henri Decoin]]
|with [[Henri Vidal]]
|-
|1960
|''[[Fortunat]]''<ref name="bfifortunat">{{cite web|title=FORTUNAT (1960)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6aa7d3b5|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222084201/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6aa7d3b5|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Juliette Valcourt
|[[Alex Joffé]]
|title character played by Bourvil
|-
|rowspan=2|1961
|''[[Three Faces of Sin]]''<ref name="bfilepuitsauxtrois">{{cite web|title=Le PUITS AUX TROIS VERITES (1961)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b3a5a41|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222082221/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b3a5a41|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Renée Plège
|[[François Villiers]]
|with [[Jean-Claude Brialy]]
|-
|''[[Les Lions sont lâchés|The Lions Are Loose]]''<ref name="bfileslionssontlaches">{{cite web|title=Les LIONS SONT LÂCHÉS (1961)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6aeea96c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222084308/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6aeea96c|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Cécile
|Henri Verneuil
|with [[Jean-Claude Brialy]]
|-
|rowspan=4|1962
|''[[Landru (film)|Landru]]''<ref name="bfilandru">{{cite web|title=LANDRU (1962)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ae7fdee|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222154118/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ae7fdee|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Célestine Buisson
|[[Claude Chabrol]]
|with [[Charles Denner]]
|-
|''[[Rencontres|Meetings]]''<ref name="bfirencontres">{{cite web|title=RENCONTRES (1962)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b760c3c9f|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222082804/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b760c3c9f|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Bella Krastner
|[[Philippe Agostini]]
|with [[Gabriele Ferzetti]]
|-
|''[[Le Crime ne paie pas|Crime Does Not Pay]]''<ref name="bfilecrimenepaiepas">{{cite web|title=Le CRIME NE PAIE PAS (1962)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a823b29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222084359/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a823b29|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Jeanne Hugues
|[[Gérard Oury]]
|episode "The Hugues Case"
|-
|''[[The Winner (1962 film)|The Winner]]''<ref name="unifranceuncoeur">{{cite web|title=Un cœur gros comme ça|url=http://www.unifrance.org/film/2444/un-coeur-gros-comme-ca|website=[[UniFrance]]|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|As herself
|[[François Reichenbach]]
|[[Louis Delluc Prize]], [[Golden Leopard]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1963
|''[[Méfiez-vous, mesdames|Be Careful Ladies]]''<ref name="bfimefiezvous">{{cite web|title=MÉFIEZ VOUS, MESDAMES! (1963)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b742bbeec|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222083428/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b742bbeec|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Denise Duparc
|[[André Hunebelle]]
|with [[Paul Meurisse]]
|-
|''Web of Fear''<ref name="bfiweb">{{cite web|title=CONSTANCE AUX ENFERS (1963)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a7e6b55|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222083524/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a7e6b55|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Constance
|François Villiers
|with [[Dany Saval]]
|-
|rowspan=3|1964
|''[[Les Yeux cernés|Marked Eyes]]''<ref name="bfilesyeuxcernes">{{cite web|title=Les YEUX CERNES (1964)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b78e0aa76|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222082644/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b78e0aa76|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Florence
|Robert Hossein
|starring the film's director
|-
|''[[Les Pas perdus|The Last Steps]]''<ref name="bfilespasperdus">{{cite web|title=Les PAS PERDUS (1964)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b754bff61|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222082503/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b754bff61|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Yolande Simonet
|Jacques Robin
|with [[Jean-Louis Trintignant]]
|-
|''[[Il Fornaretto di Venezia|The Scapegoat]]''<ref name="bfiilfornarettodi">{{cite web|title=Il FORNARETTO DI VENEZIA (1963)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6aa7730f|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222083021/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6aa7730f|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Princess Sofia
|[[Duccio Tessari]]
|based on a novel by [[Francesco Dall'Ongaro]]
|-
|1965
|''[[Dis-moi qui tuer|Tell Me Whom to Kill]]''<ref name="bfitellmewhotokill">{{cite web|title=DIS MOI QUI TUER (1965)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a8e41c5|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222154133/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a8e41c5|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Geneviève Montanet
|[[Étienne Périer (director)|Étienne Périer]]
|with [[Paul Hubschmid]]
|-
|1966
|''[[Lost Command]]''<ref name="washingtonpostobit"/>
|The Countess of Clairfond
|[[Mark Robson (film director)|Mark Robson]]
|with [[Anthony Quinn]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1967
|''[[La Bien-aimée]]''<ref name="bfilabien">{{cite web|title=La BIEN-AIMÉE (1967)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6f4a7b5c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222151548/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6f4a7b5c|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Fanny Dréal
|[[Jacques Doniol-Valcroze]]
|TV film
|-
|''[[Benjamin (1968 film)|The Diary of an Innocent Boy]]''<ref name="lemondeobit"/>
|The Countess
|[[Michel Deville]]
|with [[Pierre Clémenti]] and [[Michel Piccoli]]
|-
|1975
|''[[Le Chat et la souris|Cat and Mouse]]''<ref name="lemondeobit"/>
|Madame Richard
|Claude Lelouch
|with [[Serge Reggiani]]
|-
|1986
|''[[Le Tiroir secret]]''<ref name="bfiletiroir">{{cite web|title=Le TIROIR SECRET (1986)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b779b87de|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222083906/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b779b87de|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2016|website=British Film Institute|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
|Colette Dutilleul-Lemarchand
|[[Édouard Molinaro]], Roger Gillioz, [[Michel Boisrond]], [[Nadine Trintignant]]
|TV miniseries, 6 episodes
|-
|1990
|''[[Everybody's Fine (1990 film)|Everybody's Fine]]''<ref name="latimestonatorewilmington">{{cite news|last1=Wilmington|first1=Michael|title=MOVIE REVIEW : Tornatore's 'Everybody's Fine' a Mixed Achievement|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-07-ca-282-story.html|access-date=21 December 2016|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=June 7, 1991}}</ref>
|A woman in the train
|[[Giuseppe Tornatore]] 
|with [[Marcello Mastroianni]]
|}

== Trivia ==
The former [[President of Chile]] [[Michelle Bachelet]] was named after Michèle Morgan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2006/03/03/001-femmes-chili.shtml|title=Michelle Bachelet, présidente du Chili |publisher=[[CBC/Radio-Canada]]|date=3 March 2006|access-date=11 March 2016|language=fr}}</ref>

She almost played Ilsa Lund in [[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vincent's CASABLANCA HomePage -- The Alternate Cast |url=http://www.vincasa.com/indexalternatecast.html |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=www.vincasa.com}}</ref>

== References ==
{{reflist|30em}}

==Further reading==
{{refbegin}}
* {{cite book |first=Ann |last=Lloyd |title=The Illustrated Who's Who of the cinema |publisher=Gramercy |year=1987 |isbn=0-517-64419-3 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedwhosw00lloy }}
* {{cite book |first=Michèle |last=Morgan |title=Avec ces yeux-là  |publisher=Robert Laffont |date=1977 |isbn=978-2-221-00222-3}}
* {{cite book |first=Michèle |last=Morgan |title=With Those Eyes  |publisher= W.H. Allen |date=1978 |isbn=978-0-491-02185-2}}
* {{cite web |first=R. F. |last=Cousins |url=http://www.filmreference.com/Actors-and-Actresses-Mo-No/Morgan-Mich-le.html |title=Michèle Morgan |publisher=Film Reference |access-date=28 June 2009}}
{{refend}}

==External links==
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* {{IMDb name|0006807}}
* [http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_mmorgan.html Michèle Morgan] at filmsdefrance.com
* {{Allocine name|6549}}
* [http://film.virtual-history.com/person.php?personid=5527 Photographs of Michèle Morgan]

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