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Je suis une r�veuse. Tel pourrait bien �tre le fil conducteur du parcours de la com�dienne Micheline Presle, et de sa vie de femme. Enfant, qu'elle c�toie les grands aventuriers des temps modernes ou qu'elle sillonne les all�es du jardin du Luxembourg, c'est avec une imagination digne d'Alice. Et lorsqu'elle d�couvre tr�s jeune le cin�ma, c'est la r�v�lation. En attendant d'y faire ses premiers pas, elle distrait tant ses camarades de Notre-Dame-de-Sion qu'une religieuse lui pr�dit qu'elle finira sur les planches. Cette mal�diction l'enchante.
Elle, dont les idoles sont Danielle Darrieux et Mich�le Morgan, fait sa premi�re apparition devant la cam�ra � l'�ge de 15 ans au c�t� de Charles Trenet. Avant la guerre, elle tourne ses deux premiers films en vedette, sous la direction de G.W. Pabst et Abel Gance: sa carri�re est lanc�e. Elle est pass�e sans transition de l'imaginaire de l'enfance � l'imagerie du cin�ma. De quoi perp�tuer le r�ve?
Sa trajectoire d�sormais s'�crira sous le sceau du conte de f�e. Avec ses contretemps. Dans les ann�es 1940, elle devient l'une des stars pr�f�r�es du public, avant qu'un amour ne l'entra�ne brusquement � Hollywood. A son retour en France au d�but des ann�es 1950, sa carri�re semble bris�e. Cette cassure va pourtant marquer l'impulsion d'un nouvel �lan: tourner la page du cin�ma d'antan.
Guid�e par une insatiable curiosit�, Micheline Presle est sollicit�e par une nouvelle g�n�ration de r�alisateurs, redevient l'une des actrices fran�aises les plus populaires gr�ce aux Saintes Ch�ries, alterne au th��tre succ�s et spectacles plus en marge avec la m�me �nergie, fr�quente assid�ment les galeries d'art et les salles obscures en perp�tuelle qu�te de d�couvertes et communique � sa fille, Tonie Marshall, la fibre du cin�ma.
Aventuri�re des temps modernes, Micheline Presle l'est certainement � sa fa�on. Cette conversation men�e en zigzag, comme une constante digression, retrace le chemin atypique d'une actrice qui a travers� les �poques sans jamais se quitter, brosse le portrait en kal�idoscope d'une femme pourvue d'une exceptionnelle vitalit�. Ce livre, n� de la rencontre amicale avec un jeune �crivain, n'a d'autre pr�tention que de ressembler � celle qui y a imprim� sa voix.
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