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Amazing actress- gone too soon! Acting in heaven now....
Ed Porben
June 09, 2025 | Miami, FL
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Obituary
PARIS (AP) - French actress Claude Jade, who starred in several of director Francois Truffaut's best-loved films, has died, a colleague said Saturday. She was 58.
Jade died Friday at a hospital in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt, said Jacques Rampal, a playwright she had recently worked with. She had been suffering from eye cancer, which spread, he said.
The young actress caught Truffaut's attention while appearing onstage in Shakespeare's "Henry IV" in the 1960s. He cast her as a young woman in love in the 1968 film "Baisers Voles" (Stolen Kisses), alongside leading man Jean-Pierre Leaud. Truffaut continued the story of the characters' marriage and divorce in "Domicile conjugal" (Bed & Board) and "L'Amour en fuite" (Love on the Run).
Born Claude Jorre, Jade had a role in Alfred Hitchcock's 1969 film "Topaz," about a French spy network, and she also appeared alongside crooner Jacques Brel in the 1969 film "Mon Oncle Benjamin" (My Uncle Benjamin)."
Jade, who was a knight in France's prestigious Legion of Honor, also had a thriving career on the stage.
Her last role was in Rampal's play "Celimene et le Cardinal" (Celimene and the Cardinal), which played in Paris and in festivals this summer. Already suffering from cancer, she wore a plastic eye for her performances, Rampal said. Before she died, she had been reading the script for a television movie that she hoped to shoot this spring, he said.
Jade is survived by a son, Pierre Coste. A funeral will be held Tuesday at the Oratoire du Louvre church in Paris.
Copyright © 2006 The Associated Press
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Thank you for sharing a part of your life with us.
Harry Simpson
December 01, 2015 | Buckeye, AZ
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I've just watched 'Stolen Kisses' and 'Bed and Board' again. I saw them when they were new, I was new, and you were new. At the risk of appearing to be the odd character in 'Stolen Kisses' who professes his undying love at its conclusion, I have to say that I'll always love you, Claude. You were a glorious actress. Love to your family.
Michael Williams
August 26, 2014 | Charlottesville, VA
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MAY YOUR MEMORY BE ETERNAL!
Fr. Nicholas V. Gamvas
April 07, 2011 | Canton, OH
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You was like a piece of sun in the ice-cold water during your time and work in Moscow. Your eternel beauty and talent in the films "Lenin in Paris" and "Teheran-43" where great moments for the russian cinema. Adieu, Claude Jade
Oleg Bashikov
June 16, 2009 | Moscow
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May you have top billing for all the rest of time. My sorrow is the more intense because I have never seen some of your best works, such as Mon Oncle Benjamin, Les Bateau sur l'Herbe, Malin Plaisir and Pretres Interdits. Hopefully, some one will transcribe these and the rest of your triumphs to DVD for prosterity. Rest Well Cheri.
Epirb [email protected]
July 19, 2007 | Naples, FL
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My dear Claude, I just learned about your passing. I am shocked. I met you when I was 18 on a movie set in Rome in 1973, it was my first job when I was still in film school. You amazed me with your beauty and talent. I never saw you since but we stayed in touch very occasionally and it was always great to hear your voice and for me remembering that moment of life we share long ago. You will be much missed. My thoughts and prayer are with your husband, your son and your loved ones.
Addio...
Massimo Zeri
April 07, 2007 | Los Angeles, CA
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You are pure beauty who has lived in my heart for years, on the edge of awareness.
How can you be gone? My mind and body burn for you with renewed intensity.
Go with God, ma cherie.
William Miele
March 09, 2007 | Tenafly, NJ
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Remembered By
Richard Herrick
December 06, 2006 | Costa Mesa, CA
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