His superiors almost always told him the same thing: "You're wasting your time here, you should try your luck as a model or film actor"...
So by 1957, as Alain Delon, he would debut in Quand la Femme s'en Mele (When the Devil Fails, He Sends the Woman), a police drama by Yves Allégret, and from there he would work with directors of the calibre of Clement, Melville, Visconti, Antonioni, Blier, or actors such as Gabin, Ventura, Belmondo (his great partner and friend), Lancaster or Bronson...
He would also share the screen with actresses of the calibre of Claudia Cardinale, Nathalie Delon or Romy Schneider, who was perhaps his greatest love.
Alain Delon was for women, what his compatriot Brigitte Bardot was for the men of her time, a sexual bomb, reachable only when they could see him in the cinema, not in vain did he achieve more than 134 million spectators around the world (60% of them, obviously women), reaching a record only equaled by the legendary Louis de Funes or his friend Jean-Paul Belmondo.
So many things were said about Delon: that he was gay and bisexual, just because he was a friend of Luchino Visconti, that he was a misogynist and an Apache with his lovers, that he made a pact with the devil not to grow old... about the latter, when he turned 60 and still looked 40, he was asked what his secret was, to which the Gallic actor, loose-lipped, said: "I just sleep a lot and make love at least twice a day, EVERY day, you should try it"...
Let these lines be a simple tribute to an actor who marked an era, the hearts of millions of women and became, definitively, a legend.
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