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JEAN SEBERG-
Woman Between
Two Worlds
The teen-ager from Iowa has
become the cosmopolite from Paris
but at what expense to herself?
By JACK RYAN
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During the filming of "St. Joan" six years
ago, famed British actor Sir John Gielgud
took a nervous young girl aside and told her:
"Don't worry about fame aa an actress. Fame does not
change a person. People who know you least will say you've
changed but those who know you best will see that you
are still the same."
These, words come back to Jean Seberg nowadays be
cause fame has come and accusations that the druggist's
pretty daughter from Marshalltown, Iowa, is now a sophis
ticated and hardened actress of Paris' "New Wave."
"It annoys me," Jean says, "when a Frenchman comes
up and says, 'Oh, you're so unexpectedly Parisienne.' He
means to compliment me but I can't help snapping: 'I'm
an American Iowa American.' "
Yet when she visits her parents' home, high-school ac
quaintances tell her how "different" she is "so foreign."
Jean sighs: "They're trying to be complimentary, too."
If Jean Seberg, the woman, has remained unchanged,
however, it is as remarkable an achievement as the success
of Jean Seberg, the actress. You'll remember her as Otto
Preminger's "discovery of the century," a fan-magazine-reading
teen-ager picked from 18,000 contestants to star
in "St. Joan," one of the most difficult of dramatic roles.
Her debut was one of the great failures of the century.
Scathing reviews, Jean says, sent her "running off to Nice
(France) and just trying to keep busy mostly crying."
At 20 a has-been to American producers, Jean soon be
came the darling of young French directors making their
first films and searching for a fresh face with the outward
appearance of American wholesomeness and the suggestion
of smoldering Mediterranean passion. They had no money,
and Jean had nothing to do (although still enjoying a fat
American contract). The result was four "New Wave"
films, including "Breathless," that turned critical catcalls
into cheers. This year, back on top, Jean stars in two major
American movies: the current Irwin Shaw-Robert Parrish
production of "In the French Style" with Stanley Baker
and the forthcoming Robert Rossen production of "Lilith"
with Warren Beatty.
In recalling less happy days, Jean says, "I was deter
mined not to let the critics get me down. I come from
Swedish peasant stock. That and the support of friends
helped me withstand the knocks."
Jean studied French art at the Sorbonne, and no less
than Andre Malraux, the minister of culture, signed her
degree and sketched a cat on it as a mark of his esteem.
She hired a Comidie Franeaise actress to perfect her
French, although an acquaintance says she still "speaks
French with a Harry Truman accent" And, most unsuc-
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cessfully, she married a Frenchman, Francois Moreuil, in
an old-fashioned Iowa ceremony. He was a businessman
who wanted to direct a Jean Seberg "New Wave" drama,
but before he could start, Jean was back in Marshalltown
divorcing him for "cruel and inhuman treatment." The
couple did make the picture, but with Jean's grandmother
nearby to act as a referee during tempestuous fights.
Through the hectic years, Jean records only one regret.
"My parents have been happy when I'm happy, unhappy
when I'm unhappy, but some things hurt them more than
they do me some publicity, I mean." This includes a re
ported romance with Otto Preminger, leading to his di
vorce; supposedly Bohemian living on the Left Bank; and
"amoral" French films. Most recently, publicists had Jean
playing a scene in the seminude with Warren Beatty, and
Jean let loose a rare burst of temper. "It wasn't true, but
what can my parents say when everybody reads about it?"
About the ups and downs of the past years, Jean says:
"Even if Otto Preminger hadn't found me, I would have
gone off from Marshalltown starry-eyed to be an actress.
I wouldn't have faced the same problems, but there would
have been others, maybe ones I would have run away from.
I suppose my parents would have preferred that I marry
the doctor's son and raise a family at home. My sister in
Ames did, and in many ways her life is more rewarding
than mine. But everybody has his own life. My unhappy
marriage could have happened anywhere, you know."
Jean speaks freely on the French attitude toward mar
riage: "The French father is too casual toward his
home. And he expects his wife to tolerate his 'adventures.'
That is something few American women can accept."
Ironically, Jean and French novelist-diplomat Romain
Gary have been a romantic pair for two or three years
and he, 26 years her senior, is married (though long sep
arated) to a Frenchwoman. Currently he is again trying to
get a divorce, and he and Jean hope to marry soon.
Jean's two worlds and topsy-turvy career have admit
tedly left her a little confused. "Since I first won the 'St.
Joan' role, I haven't stopped running long enough to know
much about myself. But I have two important pictures fin
ished now, and time to go off and take inventory. Oh, I
won't lock myself in a dark room and contemplate, but I
will see, what these last years have brought"
Fame, as Sir John Gielgud predicted, hasn't changed
Jean Seberg. She is still warm, friendly, and modest in the
Iowa fashion. But she also has experienced the crudest
failures and learned the good and not-so-good of two vastly
different worlds. These unexpected lessons may have made
a "new" person, and one Jean Seberg will be happy to be
come acquainted with in her inventory.