from her acting career, then made only occasional appearances in film, television and theatre. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Morgan has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1645 Vine Street. In 1969, the government of France awarded her the Légion d'Honneur. For her long service to the French motion picture industry, in 1992 she was given an Honorary César Award. In 1996, she also received the Career Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. Morgan took up painting in the 1960s. She had a solo exhibition, "Artistes En Lumière à Paris", from 2 March to 30 April 2009, at the Espace Cardin in Paris. In 1977 she released her memoir, titled With Those Eyes (Avec ces yeux-là). Personal life and death While in Hollywood, Morgan married William Marshall (1917–1994), in 1942, with whom she had a son, Mike Marshall (1944–2005). Morgan had built and owned a house at 10050 Cielo Drive. Morgan and Marshall divorced in 1948. She married French actor Henri Vidal (1919–1959) in 1950. She remained with him until his death in 1959. She then lived with film director and actor/writer Gérard Oury until his death in 2006. Morgan died on 20 December 2016, aged 96, in Meudon, France of natural causes. Her funeral was held at the Église Saint-Pierre in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 23 December 2016, and she was buried at the Montparnasse Cemetery. Despite living to the age of 96, she technically only had 24 birthdays due to being born on 29 February. Filmography Trivia The former President of Chile Michelle Bachelet was named after Michèle Morgan. References Further reading External links Michèle Morgan at filmsdefrance.com Photographs of Michèle Morgan Michèle Morgan (Aveleyman) 1920 births 2016 deaths Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress winners César Honorary Award recipients People from Neuilly-sur-Seine People from Dieppe, Seine-Maritime Actresses from Los Angeles French expatriate actresses in the United States French film actresses French memoirists Grand Officiers of the Légion d'honneur 20th-century French actresses Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite RKO Pictures contract players Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery French women memoirists 21st-century American women