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Auction: 316 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 1232

Film: Seberg, Jean Dorothy. American actress, known for such films as Bonjour Tristesse, Breathless, Paint Your Wagon, The Mouse that Roared and Airport. After marrying a French lawyer in 1958 (who she divorced in 1960), Seberg was Paris-based for the rest of her life. Seberg was one of the most famous targets of the FBI´s Counter Intelligence program. Because of her support of certain civil rights groups in the ´60s and several small monetary gifts to the Black Panthers, the FBI created false stories and publically defamed her - Seberg´s second husband named the FBI´s campaign as the reason behind her death by barbiturate overdose (ruled a suicide) in 1979 Her copy of Victor Hugo´s "Les Miserables". Garden City, NY, Literary Guild of America, 1954. Signed in blue ink on the front endpaper "Jean D. Seberg". Fine.

Estimate
$250 to $350