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Alain Delon, Icon of the French New Wave, Dead at 88
Delon starred in the tabloids almost as much as in films of the nouvelle vague.
He was discovered by actress Brigitte Auber, who introduced him to the luminaries of international cinema at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. He got his first role, a bit part in Quand la femme s’en mêle, by having an affair with the director’s wife. Delon played deadly conman Tom Ripley in Plein Soleil, worked with Luchino Visconti on Rocco and his Brothers and The Leopard, and most fruitfully with Jean-Pierre Melville.
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