French actress Jeanne Moreau, the smoky-voiced femme fatale of the French New Wave who starred in Francois Truffaut's love triangle film "Jules and Jim" and worked with many other acclaimed directors during a decades-long career, has died at 89. Starting in the early 1960s, Moreau was the most prominent actress of the French New Wave, with her brooding, downturned mouth and distinctive blend of sensuality, intellect and resolve. Moreau starred in her first feature film in 1949 and last appeared in the 2015 comedy "My Friends' Talent." Moreau often played women of experience, and off screen she had so many lovers she once boasted to a reporter she wanted to build a house and fill it with her favorite men. "Any man who didn't love Jeanne Moreau would have to be blind and deaf.

Source: ABC News July 31, 2017 09:49 UTC