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VH1.com : Person : Claude Jade : Biography |
 | | The teenage Jade displayed prodigious dramatic promise and, at the tender age of 18, netted the Conservatory's highly coveted Best Actress prize for her interpretation of the role of Agnès in Molière's L' École des Femmes. |
 | | Through Truffaut, Jade became acquainted with one of the director's closest friends, Alfred Hitchcock, who cast her in her English-language film debut, the massive, lavishly scaled espionage thriller Topaz, with Frederick Stafford, John Forsythe, John Vernon, and fellow French actors Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret. |
 | | Tragically, Claude Jade contracted eye cancer in her late fifties, which rapidly spread to the rest of her body. |
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