40 years after the fact
Normally, a career as a movie actress wouldn't be a liability for a drama teacher. But a 73-year-old instructor at an elite Montreal private school has lost her job after it was discovered she appeared nude in
several films in Europe more than 40 years ago.
Ms. Laurent-Auger's early films, including such titles as Le journal intime d'une nymphomane (The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac), date to the 1960s and '70s when she was a struggling actress who had just graduated from theatre school in Montreal and moved to Paris.
"I did it as a young actress to make a little money," she said in an interview on Monday. "The idea of
throwing someone out the door for something they did almost 50 years ago is idiotic. It makes me angry."
Normally, a career as a movie actress wouldn't be a liability for a drama teacher. But a 73-year-old instructor at an elite Montreal private school has lost her job after it was discovered she appeared nude in
several films in Europe more than 40 years ago.
Ms. Laurent-Auger's early films, including such titles as Le journal intime d'une nymphomane (The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac), date to the 1960s and '70s when she was a struggling actress who had just graduated from theatre school in Montreal and moved to Paris.
"I did it as a young actress to make a little money," she said in an interview on Monday. "The idea of
throwing someone out the door for something they did almost 50 years ago is idiotic. It makes me angry."
