Question

French actress Jeanne Moreau has died

This is a FYI for the Notables Project

https://www.yahoo.com/style/french-actress-jeanne-moreau-dies-105615049.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Moreau

Answer 1

Thanks Robynne. I just heard.

I've started a profile at Moreau-802.

She was married to William Friedkin but I can't find a profile for him.

Comments

Oh good! I was so hoping you would notice this, as I had a feeling you would have the best chance of giving her a good start. Your access to French resources is much better than mine.

I'll take a look and see if there's any way I can assist.

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I see neither of her Notable husbands in WikiTree yet.

Jean-Louis Richard nor William Friedkin

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Hum, I can't have access to direct resources, she was born too late for that. But;

Her mother, Katherine Buckley, was from Lancashire. She was a dancer at the Folies Bergères !

Her second husband was William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist and The French Connection. No profile for him yet? He was married multiple times so we can hope for an easy connection.

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Sadly, I don't think we'll get a super-fast connection. I looked for her spouses, and her spouses spouses, and her spouses spouses spouses... and could not find any matching profiles. That doesn't mean there's not one out there - but in a first pass, I couldn't find one.

On a positive note, I suppose we'll possibly have a whole lot more Notables to work on as a result of this.

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I've made profiles for both her husbands. Friedkin is still alive, so I've added Notables Project Wikitree to the trusted list.

Answer 2

And nearly two years later... she is finally connected. Her father being from rural central France (hardly any profiles in that area) and her mother's English ancestry leading me nowhere, I used one of the (living) ex-wives of her (living) ex-husband - all created before GDPR and tried to expand from her uncles and aunts by alliance. My inspiration was how Connecticut Gov. Abe Ribicoff was connected (see here). The difficulty was that these people are children or at most grandchildren of immigrants and they married people with the same background. In the end, there are 10 steps between (name withheld for privacy) and the existing profile that provided the connection.

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Way to go Isabelle!

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Her mother is from Lancashire. Lancashire is so vexing because so many notable, talented, famous people have ancestry from Lancashire, and yet it's so hard to connect any of them! I'm not kidding. There is definitely something drifting around in the gene pool in Lancashire -- Jeanne Moreau, Ian Curtis (Joy Division), Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane), Tom Evans (Badfinger), and of course, The Beatles, all had ancestry from Lancashire, along with probably dozens of others I'm forgetting.