Was it some sort of grim prank to cast chatterbox Jesse Eisenberg as Marcel Marceau ... him famous — a hand passed over his face from happy to sad and back — the young mime soothes a truckload ...

Marcel Marceau seems melancholy ... Bip resembles the 19th-century sad clown, Pierrot. “I wear white face for Pierrot,” Marceau explains. “And the red flower is for fragility, vulnerability.” ...

Marcel Marceau ... LCI television said the family had announced the death of Marceau. No other details were released. Wearing white face paint, soft shoes and a battered hat topped with a red ...

Marcel Marceau ... Wearing white face paint, soft shoes and a battered hat topped with a red flower, Marceau breathed new life into an art that dates to ancient Greece. He played out the human ...

Marceau, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died, French media reported Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007. He was 84. France-Info radio and LCI television said the family had ...

With a stripy top, white face, and limp red flower in his battered silk hat, he charmed with his deft silent movements, and mercurial expressions. Off stage, Marceau was known as a witty, chatty and ...

Marceau, whose real name was Marcel Mangel, became world famous for his 1947 creation of Bip, the sad, white-faced clown in a striped jumper and a battered silk opera hat. Mime artist Corinne ...

Say “mime” and the name that comes to mind is Marcel Marceau. Despite a long history ... the Little Tramp. His sad looks and elastic gestures would become a cliché, aped by every street ...

Marcel Marceau, who spent more than half the 20th ... on a journey from birth through the playful childhood we knew to a sad, stooped frailty he pictured as a kind of second childhood.

Marceau was born in Strasbourg, France, as Marcel Mangel, son of a kosher butcher ... s movements with the look of a harlequin: a white face, a crumpled top hat with a red flower poking out ...

At the mention of the word “mime,” into most people’s minds leaps a picture of a slight figure in white face paint making precise, mesmerizing movements — the very image of Marcel Marceau.