Monkey soulmates and extraordinary talent: the man Charlie Chaplin called ‘the greatest actor in the world’

Michel Simon, who steals the show in Jean Vigo’s 1934 masterpiece L’Atalante, was a soft-faced, gravelly voiced clown capable of tremendous pathos – and total chaos.

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