ABSTRACT

Both on and off screen, the Michèle Morgan–Henri Vidal star couple was a pair of opposites. Morgan personified an ethereal femininity on screen, but she chose as her partner the most athletic and virile actor in France, and they became one of the most glamorous French couples of the time. The quintessence of ‘quality’ cinema, Morgan accumulated successes, while Vidal was often consigned to B-movies and supporting roles. Both publicly and on screen, Vidal was perceived as Michèle Morgan’s husband more than she was seen as his wife, a role reversal that was rare for the era. The films’ mise en abyme of their real-life relationship widened the gap between them, reproducing it as class difference punished by death, the loss of a child or alcoholism, all of which strangely echoed their private lives. The relative failure of these films is certainly related to the way that the actors’ image as a couple and the fictional stories built around it clashed with the dominant representations of the time. In order to understand these paradoxes, this article will study the couple’s bittersweet relationship in fact and in fiction, both in their films and via their reception in the media.

摘要

无论是在银幕上还是银幕外，米歇尔·摩根和亨利·维达尔这对明星情侣都是一对对立的。摩根在银幕上代表了一种空灵的女性气质，但她选择了法国最具运动能力和阳刚之气的演员作为搭档，他们成为当时最迷人的法国情侣之一。作为“优质”电影的精髓，摩根积累了成功，而维达尔则经常被委派担任 B 级电影和配角。无论是在公开场合还是在银幕上，维达尔都被视为米歇尔摩根的丈夫，而不是他的妻子，这种角色转换在那个时代是罕见的。电影的悲惨结局他们现实生活中的关系扩大了他们之间的差距，将其再现为因死亡、失去孩子或酗酒而受到惩罚的阶级差异，所有这些都奇怪地呼应了他们的私生活。这些电影的相对失败当然与演员作为一对夫妇的形象以及围绕它构建的虚构故事与当时的主流表现相冲突的方式有关。为了理解这些悖论，本文将研究这对夫妇在现实和虚构中的苦乐参半的关系，无论是在他们的电影中还是通过他们在媒体上的接受度。