After World War II, Jourdan attracted the attention of famed producer David O. Selznick and was cast in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Paradine Case” (1947), which starred Gregory Peck and Ethel Barrymore.
The late 1940s and ’50s were Jourdan’s most fertile period, a time of lavish romantic features perfect for his cultivated persona. During this period, he starred in Vincente Minnelli’s version of “Madame Bovary” (1949) opposite Jennifer Jones; in “Bird of Paradise” (1951) with Debra Paget; and as a pirate in “Anne of the Indies” (1951), with Jean Peters and Paget again.
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Jourdan was married for more than six decades to Berthe Frederique, who died in 2014. Their son, Louis Henry Jourdan, died from a drug overdose in 1981.
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