Francoise Pascal
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| Birthdate: | 14 October 1949 |
| Birth location: | Mauritius |
| Eye color: | Brown |
| Hair color: | Brown |
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Francoise Pascal (born 14 October 1949 on Mauritius) was the Penthouse Pet of the Month for August 1970.
[edit] Biography
Born 14 October 1949 on the Island of Mauritius. She was educated in Paris and in London. Her first taste of showbiz came when she was dancing on Top of the Pops in the 60s where she met Susan George and Fraser Hines at the BBC.
Her first movie was Loving Feeling (1968), directed by Norman J. Warren, but her breakthrough film was There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) with Peter Sellers, playing Paola. Kirk Douglas spotted her in a restaurant and offered her the lead in Skallawag but she turned it down to do a Jean Rollin film, La Rose de Fer (1973). Fire broke out at her friend Vivianne Ventura's house in 1971 and she fell from the third floor house, landing on the railings, suffering a broken arm and a dislocated shoulder. In 1976 she starred in the British sex comedy Keep it Up Downstairs alongside Diana Dors and Mary Millington.
Her tempestuous eleven-year relationship with legendary film actor Richard Johnson ended in 1980, although a son Nicholas was born in 1976. She was engaged to marry the Formula One Ford designer Adrian Reynard of Reynard Racing Cars in 1981, but she broke off the engagement after she found out that he was still seeing his old girlfriend.
Pascal claims that her numerous films never gave her the happiness and security that she had been seeking. She eventually broke into television in October 1971 in Coronation Street playing Ray Langdon's friend, before Joanna Lumley came on the scene. Then came numerous guest star role with Rex Harrison in Don Quixote, Lee Remick in Tennessee Williams' Summer & Smoke, Terry & June and Giants & Ogres for Granada.
She met comedy writer Vince Powell at Thames Television in the late 1970s, little realising that he was writing the part of saucy Danielle Favre for her in politically-incorrect sitcom Mind Your Language (1977). She did 3 years of the series before treading the boards in 'Happy Birthday', reuniting with Fraser Hines, and starring in a pantomime Alladin. Pascal left for the USA in 1982 with Tim Hauser of the Manhattan Transfer where she acted in Hollywood with a two year contract in The Young and The Restless, Gavillan, My Man Adam, Lightning, and the movie The White Stallion (1986). She received rave reviews in Twelfth Night playing Olivia and Rosalind in As You Like It.
Pascal returned to London in 1987, no longer having a taste for showbiz. She learned to use a computer to earn a living and now works for a very well known charity for the elderly.
She lives in Hampshire, England with her partner of 14 years.
[edit] References
Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema by Simon Sheridan (Reynolds & Hearn Books) (third edition) 2007
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