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Micheline Presle Dies: ‘Devil In The Flesh’ Star Was 101


French film actress Micheline Presle is dead at 101

Micheline Presle, the French actress whose controversial Devil in the Flesh role was the start of a career that included starring opposite John Garfield, Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn and Paul Newman, has died at 101. Presle portrayed a nurse having an affair with a student (Gérard Philipe) in the World War I drama Devil in the Flesh(1947), which the National Board of Review voted as one of the 10 best films of the year. She was soon signed by 20th Century Fox, which changed her surname to Prelle and cast her as a café owner who falls in love with a crooked jockey (Garfield) in Jean Negulesco’s Under My Skin(1950).

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