Please join us in wishing a very happy birthday to a cinematic icon:

Catherine Deneuve, born on October 22, 1943.

To celebrate the occasion we offer up this snap of the actress in Paris in 1967, the year she starred in one of the most stylish and sexiest films ever made, Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour.

French actress Catherine Deneuve in her Morgan roadster in 1967

In it she plays a beautiful but frigid young housewife who decides to spend her afternoons as a prostitute.

Hey, it’s French.

Here the sultry star looks fetching at the wheel of an equally sexy motorcar, a Morgan Plus 4 Drophead Coupe.

The British marque revived the classic model in 2005; if only they could bring back the Deneuve days as well….

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