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- DIED. Yves Montand, 70, durable French entertainer who in
- later life achieved international film stardom; of a stroke; in
- Senlis, France. The Italian-born Montand gained fame as a singer
- and protege of his lover Edith Piaf, with whom he appeared in
- his first film (Star Without Light). He also co-starred with
- Marilyn Monroe (Let's Make Love) and Simone Signoret (The
- Crucible), his real-life wife for 34 often tempestuous years.
- A longtime left-wing activist who later moderated some of his
- views, Montand played an antiright maverick in Costa-Gavras' Z
- and won highest acclaim for his role as a scheming peasant in
- Claude Berri's two-part film adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's Jean
- de Florette and Manon of the Spring. At 67 he became a father
- for the first time with the birth of his son by companion Carole
- Amiel.
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