Anicée Alvina Anicée Alvina

Anicée Alvina, also known as Anicée Schahmaneche (b. Anicée Shahmanesh or Anicee Schahmane on 28 January 1953, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine – d. 11 November 2006, Boncourt, Eure-et-Loir from cancer) was a French singer and actress.
After her 1969 graduation from the Conservatory in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Alvina made her screen debut in Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause ! (fr) in 1970. Her second screen appearance was in the 1971 Lewis Gilbert film Friends which would remain her sole claim to international fame becoming a worldwide hit, although most likely not due to Alvina's distantly shot full-frontal nudity - the seventeen-year-old actress was playing a fourteen-year-old character - and the Elton John/Bernie Taupin soundtrack; Alvina also starred in the 1974 Friends sequel Paul and Michelle, which was not a success. However, Alvina appeared regularly on the French screen, both cinema and television, throughout the 1970s chiefly in nymphet roles, working with such directors as Gérard Blain, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Alain Robbe-Grillet, Alvina's highest career profile probably being afforded by the Robbe-Grillet films Glissements progressifs du plaisir (1974) and Le Jeu avec le feu (fr) (1975).