Mireille Darc on a private photo shoot in the early '70s. (Credit: AFP)
In a dark Beirut alley, a young woman with a plunging bob crushed one her cigarette on the edge of an old-fashioned building. Dressed in evening wear and platform heels, she took a break while the party she was at continued to rock the cobblestones of a capital bubbling with enthusiasm in the late summer of 1966.At the Caves du Roy, Mireille Darc was burning the midnight oil and driving up prices. The night before, the owners of the discotheque secretly announced the actress's arrival in Lebanon to shoot Georges Lautner's feature film "La grande sauterelle." Surrounded by sly playboys and socialites in miniskirts, the famous blonde danced in her corner, going out for a breath of fresh air every half-hour. It's outside that the show interests her.“She had a fascination for nightlife, for the prostitutes who redrew the contours of the...
In a dark Beirut alley, a young woman with a plunging bob crushed one her cigarette on the edge of an old-fashioned building. Dressed in evening wear and platform heels, she took a break while the party she was at continued to rock the cobblestones of a capital bubbling with enthusiasm in the late summer of 1966.At the Caves du Roy, Mireille Darc was burning the midnight oil and driving up prices. The night before, the owners of the discotheque secretly announced the actress's arrival in Lebanon to shoot Georges Lautner's feature film "La grande sauterelle." Surrounded by sly playboys and socialites in miniskirts, the famous blonde danced in her corner, going out for a breath of fresh air every half-hour. It's outside that the show interests her.“She had a fascination for nightlife, for the prostitutes who redrew the contours of the...
