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Jean Dorothy Seberg (November 13, 1938 – August 30, 1979) was an American actress. She starred in 34 films in Hollywood and in Europe, including Saint Joan, "Bonjour Tristesse", Breathless, Lilith, Moment to Moment, A Fine Madness, Paint Your Wagon, Airport, Macho Callahan, and Gang War in Naples.
Seberg is also one of the best-known targets of the FBI COINTELPRO project. Her victimization was rendered as a well-documented retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s.
Jean Seberg died at the age of 40 of a barbiturate overdose in Paris. Her death was ruled a suicide.
Jean Seberg was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, the daughter of Dorothy Arline (née Benson), a substitute teacher, and Edward Waldemar Seberg, a pharmacist. Her family was Lutheran and of Swedish, English, and German ancestry. Her paternal grandfather, Edward Carlson, arrived in the U.S. in 1882 and observed, "there are too many Carlsons in the New World". He decided to change the family's last name to Seberg in memory of the water and mountains of Sweden. Jean had a sister Mary-Ann, a brother Kurt, and a brother David, who was killed in a car accident in 1968.
Jean Seberg Interview
Jean Seberg interview
Eternelle Jean Seberg
Tribute to Jean Seberg
The Murder Of Jean Seberg
Jean Seberg, actrice américaine vivant en France, ses derniers jours jusqu'au 30 août 1979
Breathless (1960) Hotel Scene - Jean Seberg / Jean-Paul Belmondo
Alistair Cooke's Letters from America- Jean Seberg and the FBI
Jean Seberg & Romain Gary "Un Coup de Foudre"
Jean Seberg
Actors: Jason Gedrick (actor), Eric Devlin Taylor (director), Eric Devlin Taylor (writer), Wendy Rolfe Evered (actress), Christopher Leirer (actor), Angie Rae McKinney (actress), Melissa Baum (actress), Susan J. Dupre (actress), Deborah McEwen (producer), George James (actor), Ellen Alblinger (actress), Stacey Ackman (actress), Greta Bart (actress), Robert Spilane (actor), Alice Ramstell (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Jean Seberg (actress), Mark Rappaport (editor), Mark Rappaport (producer), Mark Rappaport (writer), Mark Rappaport (director), Mary Beth Hurt (actress), Coleen Fitzgibbon (producer), Janet Cassady (costume designer),
Plot: Mark Rappaport's creative bio-pic about actress Jean Seberg is presented in a first-person, autobiographical format (with Seberg played by Mary Beth Hurt). He seamlessly interweaves cinema, politics, American society and culture, and film theory to inform, entertain, and move the viewer. Seberg's many marriages, as well as her film roles, are discussed extensively. Her involvement with the Black Panther Movement and subsequent investigation by the FBI is covered. Notably, details of French New Wave cinema, Russian Expressionist (silent) films, and the careers of Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, and Clint Eastwood are also intensively examined. Much of the film is based on conjecture, but Rappaport encourages viewers to re-examine their ideas about women in film with this thought-provoking picture.
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, actress, archival-footage, barbiturate, black-panthers, character-name-in-title, civil-rights, death