45 Years After her Death, Jean Seberg's hope was a better life for those less fortunate
It was August 30th, 1979 when 40-year-old actress Jean Seberg was last seen alive, and her body was discovered in her white Renault automobile several days later, close to her Paris apartment. News of her death spread throughout the world, to the sadness of her co-stars and directors, family and friends, and her fans.
Seberg’s offscreen civil rights activism and her financial support for the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s and early 1970s made her a target of the F.B.I.’s COINTELPRO and their plan to “neutralize” her initiated a downward spiral during the remaining years of her life.
"For one whose hope was a better life for those less fortunate, Jean found herself ultimately destroyed by one powerful institution (the FBI) manipulating another (the news media)," writer/director Garry McGee said. “She was a person, like all of us, who made good choices and bad choices. There were things that happened to her that she didn’t deserve. Jean was just trying to do what was right. You see a consistent thread throughout her life of reaching out to people who had fewer opportunities than she had.”
Jean was buried on September 14th, 1979 at Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris, with her husband Dennis Berry and her two former husbands, Romain Gary and Francois Moreuil, and her son Diego in attendance--each laying a single pink rose on her casket.
The Emmy® Award-winning documentary "Jean Seberg: Actress, Activist, Icon" will be released nationally by RMR Features, LLC. on Blu-ray December 1. Over ten years in the making, the film was produced by award-winning filmmaker Garry McGee (McMarr Ltd.), and award-winning filmmakers Kelly Rundle and Tammy Rundle (Fourth Wall Films).
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