Marpessa Dawn
Anybody know what her ethnicity is...? She's a Brazillian mix of sorts; she looks like the mixed people in my family who are of East Indian and African descent. Beautiful!
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In a subtitiled interview conducted in French she said that she grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, and that her father was Filipino and her mother was African-American. Her bio states that she was married twice and had five children. I believe that one of her husbands was Marcel Camus. I find her story a bit sad (as many lives are in the end) but really super interesting. She seemed to speak fluent French.
shareMost of the actresses from that era have a "classy" style. She looks like someone from today. So hot... Credit to the costume designer too.
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