“It is in the tenderness and affection of her family that she left to join the stars”
, announced this Friday to AFP the daughter of
Marion Game
.
The actress with red hair and a bubbly personality died late Thursday afternoon at her home in Clamart, near Paris.
She was 84 years old.
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Among the many people who knew her throughout her career,
Luq Hamett
remembers a
“tornado, an exceptional woman who had an extraordinary poise, talent and humor”
.
The two actors met on the dubbing of the American series
Beverly Hills 90210
.
“She was my mom because I was doing Brandon.
I will remember an anecdote all my life.
She was very upset with the schedules.
Very frequently, she arrived, not ten minutes late but half an hour, even three quarters of an hour.
One day she arrived late.
I was the set manager and she knew I was going to yell at her.
So she looked at me and said:
"It's a shame !
It's scandalous !
They added trucks to the ring road!”
There, it was Marion.
She took out ten a day like that
, ”he recalls with emotion.
In 2019, Luq Hamet staged
It's Yet Simple!
“I had the extreme pleasure that she agreed to play in my play
, he underlines.
We did a hundred performances at the Théâtre Edgar in Paris and around fifty on tour where I was at all the performances because I wanted to accompany him myself.
At each
of them, Marion Game was entitled to a standing ovation.
“At the end of the show, she was singing a song and people were on their feet.
She said to me:
“You know that's what I prefer to do”
.
The theater was his life”
, assures Luq Hamett specifying, not a little proud:
“I have the small honor of having produced his last play”
.
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It was during this tour that Marion Game had the opportunity to return to Casablanca, her native land.
“It's a huge memory for me and I think it meant a lot to her.
She left Casablanca when she was young and pregnant with her daughter Virginie.
She had never come back.
We took a car and drove through all the streets where she had lived.
We stopped in the squares, she told me her memories … ”
, he continues.
"
Household Scenes
brought her the consecration she deserved and allowed her to end her career as a great actress"
Luq Hamett about Marion Game
A true mountebank
“in the noble sense of the term”
, Marion Game was not afraid to criss-cross France to tread the boards.
“The roads were his life.
She spent forty, fifty years of her life doing dates in towns you don't even know the name of.
She took her pilgrim's staff and her three Yorkies.
I saw her take, I don't know how many times, the TGV in extremis where she almost forgot on the platform her smallest and sickest dog who couldn't follow her”, says Luq Hamett
.
When he had to cross the endless halls of an airport, Marion Game remarked to him:
“Do you think we wouldn't do better to go there on foot?
»
.
“She would get me stuff that made me scream with laughter.
»
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Since 2009, Marion Game has played the role of Huguette in
Scenes of Households
on M6.
“God knows if the series brought her the consecration she deserved and allowed her to end her career as a great actress.
This series was great because its notoriety was exceptional, it could not go a meter in the street without people stopping it.
She has always been on screen as she has been in life, someone extremely approachable, sympathetic with the public because she knew she owed them everything
,” continues Luq Hamett.
Despite the stop of the play
It is however simple!
because of the confinement, Luq Hamett remained very close to Marion Game and her children.
“Virginia [Ledieu, NDR] was admirable.
She took care of her mom until the end in an admirable way.
Thank God, Marion died of old age, her heart stopped, that's all I wish for everyone
,” concludes Luq Hamett in tears.
Marion Game surrounded (from left to right) by Élisa Azé, Virginie Stevenhoot, Emmanuel Vieilly, Geneviève Gil and Luq Hamett, in front of the Edgar Theater.
Luq Hamett.
