Simone Mareuil
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Simone Mareuil (25 August 1903 – 24 October 1954) was a French actress born in Perigueux, Dordogne. She appeared in a number of films, most notably director Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog, 1929).
After World War II she returned to her native region where she fell into a deep depression. She committed suicide at the age of 51 by dousing herself in gasoline and burning herself to death in a public square.