Sylvia Lopez

Sylvia Lopez

Born: November 10, 1933
Died: November 20, 1959
in Paris, France
Sylvia Lopez (November 10, 1933 – November 20, 1959) was a French model and actress.

Born Tatjana Bernt, she was raised in Paris, where she began a career in modelling. Eventually she modeled for couturier Jacques Fath, the first French fashion designer to export his creations to the United States. Appearing under the name "Sylvia Sinclair", Bernt earned enough exposure to attract the attention of film producers.

In November 1956 she became the second wife of the composer Francis Lopez.

Lopez made her first of two French-language films following which she appeared in several Italian swashbucklers with American stars such as Steve Reeves and Lex Barker that were commercially successful and for which she received favorable reviews.

Diagnosed with leukemia, Lopez died a few months after she withdrew while working on the set of a film Voulez-vous danser avec moi? (which was posthumously released a month later) with Brigitte Bardot.

Sylvia Lopez is interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.

5 years later a song called Mon amie la rose was written by Cécile Caulier and first sung by Françoise Hardy, as a single from her third album of the same name.

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Movies for Sylvia Lopez...

The Moralist
Title: The Moralist
Character: Woman at the night club (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1959
Type: Movie
The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.
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Son of the Red Corsair
Title: Son of the Red Corsair
Character: Carmen di Montélimar
Released: June 23, 1959
Type: Movie
Enrico di Ventimiglia, the Son of the Red Corsair, travels through the Spanish conquests of Central America in search of the stepsister he has never met.
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Hercules Unchained
Title: Hercules Unchained
Character: Queen Onfale, of Lidia
Released: February 14, 1959
Type: Movie
En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.
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Herod the Great
Title: Herod the Great
Character: Mariam
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Angry at his wife and defeated in battle, the king of Judea is taken prisoner. After being spared by the Romans, King Herod comes to believe he's been a victim of court plotting.
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Tabarin
Title: Tabarin
Character: Florence Didier
Released: May 21, 1958
Type: Movie
Jacques Forestier, also a choreographer, an art decorator and a stage producer, is the very competent manager of "Tabarin", a renowned Parisian music-hall. A hard worker, he always wants the best for the public, at the expense of his health. He is assisted in his task by his wife Rosine and his lively secretary Mimi. Chance has it that one of the dancers he auditions for a new show is Florence, his former lover. He doesn't want her in the show but the spiteful belle has a rich influential protector who imposes her anyway. Some time later, Jacques falls victim of a heart attack.
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Mademoiselle and Her Gang
Title: Mademoiselle and Her Gang
Character: Marie-Christine
Released: July 11, 1957
Type: Movie
Author of the best-selling crime novel Le Poulet se mange froid (Chicken Eats Cold) under the pseudonym Sam O'Connor, Inspector Bourdieux's daughter, Agnès, is unwillingly drawn into the gangster ring by two small-minded young misfits, Dédé and Juju. She's not insensitive to the charms of M. Paul, a false kingpin who is in fact a son of a good family and a thrill-seeker. Planning a heist at the home of one of Paul's snobbish friends, she arrests the real Sam O'Connor, an escaped convict, with the help of her father. Then she and Paul confess their love for each other.
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Five Million in Cash
Title: Five Million in Cash
Released: April 11, 1957
Type: Movie
Philémon De Montfilet came first in his year in the prestigious engineering school "Poly Art Technique" because of an epidemic which brought all the other examination candidates down.
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Spiel
Title: Spiel
Character: Patricia
Released: November 2, 1956
Type: Movie
The misadventures of two Parisian bohemians who imagine they've discovered oil in the South of France.
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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV
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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV
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Over the waves
Title: Over the waves
Character: Self
Released: May 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Panorama of the programs and hosts who made the heyday of radio in the 1950s.