Capucine

Capucine was a successful French model who came to the United States in 1959 to act in motion pictures. The protégé of Charles Feldman she went on to act in The Lion (1962), The 7th Dawn (1964), The Pink Panther (1963) and A Walk On The Wild Side (1962). An exotic beauty of uncertain beginnings in Toulon, France, Capucine starred in nearly forty movies before 1980. Most of them were made at the height of her career in the early and mid 1960s. She was a talented comedienne as well as a serious actress of broad range. Her comedic talent shown immensely as the wife of Peter Sellers in the original Pink Panther, and again as a nympho sort in "What's New Pussycat?, the first Woody Allen directed film.