Jean Seberg. She left her native Iowa for Hollywood while still in her teens but. [77] Foster was set to produce and star in the film, but the project was canceled two years later. "[19] Despite great hype, called in the press a "Pygmalion experiment", both the film and Seberg received poor reviews. I'm in Paris because my work has been here. It's hard to believe that Kristen Stewart . United States Senate, April 23, 1976. Project #ShowUs. She later said of the experience: I am the greatest example of a very real fact, that all the publicity in the world will not make you a movie star if you are not also an actress.. [22], Seberg renegotiated her contract with Preminger and signed a long-term contract with Columbia Pictures. Seberg was wryly humorous about the effect she exercised on French male directors. She talked about being burnt at the stake twice, first in making the movie and then by the critics. [67], On September 8, nine days after her disappearance, Seberg's decomposing body was found wrapped in a blanket in the back seat of her Renault, parked close to her apartment in the 16th arrondissement. CREATIVE. [23], Mylne Demongeot recalled in a 2015 filmed interview in Paris: "Otto had high hopes in Jean and Saint Joan's failure took a toll on him also because there was a 5-films-contract from what I recall. #inspiration #fashion #ootd #vintage #vintageclothing #60sfashion #60smovies #feminism #jeanseberg #badhairday #headscarf #hair #hairinspiration #greenbeauty #greenliving #movies #cinema #film #fashion #paris #acting #actorslife, A post shared by Isabella David (@isabelladavidvintage) on Jul 23, 2017 at 11:45am PDT, After their parting, he tried to connect with her in Paris, but their final conversation was strained, as if we were strangers., Still, when asked if he would remember Seberg the rest of his life, he said. | v), Other Works Eastwood wasnt yet known for Dirty Harry, and his Academy Award-winning Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby were decades off. The couple separated in May 1976, but never divorced. My first marriage was not happy. Reverend Thomas Duggan had officiated a "blessing" of the couple at the American Church in Paris, but the ceremony had no legal force because Seberg was still legally married to. Preminger cast her in a second film, Bonjour Tristesse (1958) but then discarded her. Gary's divorce from Blanch took place on September 5, 1962, and he married Seberg secretly on October 6, 1962, in Corsica. A casual phone call with Black Panther leader Elaine Brown brought her to the attention of the FBI. I was a supporting role, I didn't have the weight of the expected success of the film on my shoulders. That doesn't mean that I will stay here. That, though, was the period before Hoover and the FBI set about destroying her just as surely as Otto Preminger had tried to create her as a star in the late Fifties in the first place. [55] She filed for divorce in September 1968, and the divorce was finalized on July 1, 1970. A Paris court ordered Newsweek to pay the couple $10,800 in damages, and it ordered Newsweek to print the judgment in its publication and eight other newspapers.[45]. The circumstances of Jean Sebergs death 40 years ago in late August 1979 were squalid and pathetic. In the late 1960s, Seberg was increasingly based in Hollywood. "[73], Media attention surrounding the FBI's abuse of Seberg led to an examination of the case by the Church Committee of the U.S. Senate, which noted that despite the FBI's claims of reform, "COINTELPRO activities may continue today under the rubric of investigation. Her death, though, put her right back on the front pages. I was scared like a rabbit and it showed on the screen. She remained active during the 1970s in European films, appearing in Bianchi cavalli d'Agosto (White Horses of Summer) (1975), Le Grand Dlire (The Big Delirium, 1975, with husband Dennis Berry) and Die Wildente (1976, based on Ibsen's The Wild Duck[32]). Publicity Listings Clint Eastwood riding shotgun in Carmel centennial [22], Preminger promised her a second chance,[21] and he cast Seberg in his next film, Bonjour Tristesse (1958), which was filmed in France. [53] The child's birth and first year of life were hidden, even from close friends and relatives. Eastwoods career really took off after Paint Your Wagon. In the next few years, he showed promise as a director, starring in and helming in the critically acclaimed Play Misty for Me. He also created one of the great screen anti-heroes in Dirty Harry. Over the decades, he also had three more major relationships: with co-stars Sondra Locke and Frances Fisher, and his eight-year marriage to Castro Valley native and former KSBW anchor Dina Ruiz, who is 35 years his junior. She gave birth to their daughter, Nina Hart Gary, on August 23, 1970. Preminger told the press: "It's quite true that, if I had chosen Audrey Hepburn instead of Jean Seberg, it would have been less of a risk, but I prefer to take the risk. I know that the greatest of actresses has about 20 good years of acting in her and that she will go on living for 30 or 40 years as a human being. If Seberg was feeling marginalised and paranoid in her final years, you could hardly blame her given the FBI harassment, the upheaval in her private life and the alarming way her career had begun to creak. On the jet flight in first class, she witnesses a Black activist insisting on sitting in first class and offering to pay for the seats. When Eastwood and Seberg met while making Paint Your Wagon in 1968, both were at turning points in their lives and careers. Shortly after Sebergs body was found, the FBI announced that agents had attempted to besmirch her reputation in 1970. The FBI's campaign against Seberg was further explored by Time magazine in a front-page article titled "The FBI vs. Jean Seberg. (AP Photo), American actress Jean Seberg and husband Francois Moreuil arrive on Sept. 28, 1959 at London airport from Dublin after attending the Cork film festival. [10], Seberg was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, the daughter of Dorothy Arline (ne Benson), a substitute teacher, and Edward Waldemar Seberg, a pharmacist. Had an older sister, Mary Ann (b. Alexandre Diego Gary (photos/material) & Antoine de Baecque (text). Eastwood directed and produced the film, as well as taking a starring role. VIDEO. They were fearing for their lives. "[51], On September 5, 1958, at the age of 19, Seberg married Franois Moreuil, a French lawyer (aged 23) in her native Marshalltown, having met him in France 15 months earlier. And with that type of man, of character [Preminger] she shouldn't have shown fear, that's why I got along with him. If you dont know Seberg, shes a screen icon in her own right but one who died tragically by suicide at age 40 in 1979. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello), Actor Clint Eastwood poses with his children, Kyle, left, and Alison at the Burbank Studios, Ca., Sept. 29, 1986. The Talent Scout by Romain Gary (1961) features a recognizable portrait of Seberg. The system seems to be based on saving the maximum of yourself for those nearest you. Jean-Paul Belmondo, the rugged actor whose disdainful eyes, boxer's nose, sensual lips and cynical outlook made him the idolized personification of youthful alienation in the French New Wave,. The new film Seberg, starring Kristen Stewart as the actress, explores the plot by COINTELPRO, the FBIs counter-intelligence program, to discredit her support of the Panthers and other African American causes by publicizing her pregnancy, saying it felt the publication of Miss Sebergs plight could cause her embarrassment and serve to cheapen her image with the general public.. Biography Drama Thriller Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. Photos: Clint Eastwood selling Pebble Beach mansion [46][47] FBI records show that Hoover kept President Richard Nixon informed of FBI activities related to the Seberg case through Nixon's domestic affairs chief John Ehrlichman. In 1991, actress Jodie Foster, a fan of Seberg's performance in Breathless, purchased the film rights to Played Out: The Jean Seberg Story, David Richards' biography of Seberg. [52] They divorced in 1960. In 1986, pop singer Madonna recreated Seberg's iconic Breathless look in her music video for "Papa Don't Preach," sporting a pixie blonde haircut, French striped jersey shirt and black capri pants in the style of Seberg's character in Breathless. He also fathered at least seven children with five different women. The fact that people stared at her and fixated on things that were not real, projections: that really ultimately destroyed her, Kristen Stewart, who plays her in the new film, Seberg, commented of the ill-fated actress in a Vanity Fair interview. The failure of that film and the only moderate success of her next, Bonjour Tristesse (1958), combined to stall Seberg's career, until her role in Jean-Luc Godard's landmark feature, Breathless (1960), brought her renewed international attention. [1] Romain Gary, Seberg's second husband, called a press conference shortly after her death at which he blamed the FBI's campaign against Seberg for her death. Summary: Seberg is inspired by true events about the French New Wave darling and Breathless star, Jean Seberg (Kristen Stewart), who in the late 1960s was targeted by the FBI because of her support of the civil rights moCvement and romantic involvement with Hakim Jamal (Anthony Mackie), among others. "Le "oui" secret de jean Seberg et Romain Gary". Kristen Stewart stars as French New Wave actress Jean Seberg as she is targeted by the FBI for her political and romantic involvement with a civil-rights activist. It was written by, On May 31, 1979, she went through a form of marriage to 19-year-old Algerian playboy Ahmed Hasni. Godard is like a Paul Klee painting, always hiding behind those funny dark glasses, she suggested, going on to call the French auteurs who worshipped her very strange little men. [62] Seberg subsequently dated aspiring French filmmaker Jean-Claude Messager, who later spoke to CBS's Mike Wallace for a 1981 profile of the actress. I never knew until I came here [Hollywood] that somebody could be really nice to you for years and really hate your guts. During the filming of 1970s Macho Callahan in Mexico, Seberg had an affair with a young Mexican revolutionary named Carlos Ornelas Navarra, whom Seberg said was Ninas father.. She also had an affair with acclaimed novelist Carlos Fuentes, who wrote a novel about their relationship, Diana: The Goddess Who Walks Alone.. [27], In 1966 and 1967, Seberg played the leading roles in two French films directed by Claude Chabrol and co-starring Maurice Ronet. Sad to say, Eastwood's rambling conversation with an empty chair representing Obama during the GOP convention may well be the single most memorable moment of the 2012 presidential campaign. Born in San Francisco and raised in Piedmont, Eastwood became a TV star in the 1950s in the Western series Rawhide, then became a movie star in thespaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone. (AP Photo), Oscar nominee Clint Eastwood arrives with Frances Fisher, his co-star in "Unforgiven," at the 1992 50th Annual Golden Globe Awards presentation in Beverly Hills, Ca., Jan. 24, 1993. [26] In New York City, she acted in the comedy A Fine Madness (1966) with Sean Connery and under the direction of Irvin Kershner. #JeanSeberg #MuseMonday #7FAM_EU #7ForAllMankind, A post shared by 7 For All Mankind Europe (@7forallmankind_eu) on Jan 23, 2017 at 11:25am PST. Sure, she still has things to learn about acting, but so did Kim Novak when she started. Seberg was drawn to the Black Panthers because of their free breakfast programs for children, but her involvement led to government surveillance, beginning in 1969. After her death, the scenes were reshot with actress Mimsy Farmer. The little girl died two days later and was buried in Marshalltown but not before her coffin was opened to prove the baby was white. The other players try hard (perhaps too hard) to gain dominance over the central character. Moment to Moment (1965) was mostly filmed in Los Angeles; only a small part of the film was shot on the French Cote d'Azur. Its smear campaign claimed Seberg was pregnant with a Black Panthers child (L.A. Times gossip columnist Joyce Haber publicized it in a thinly veiled post), causing her to go into premature labor and give birth to a daughter, Nina Hart Gary. Even more, Clint totally ghosted her, Longworth said. In 2019, Amazon released an original film based on Seberg's life called Seberg that focuses on her battle against the FBI, with the title role played by Kristen Stewart. Newsweek also wrote about it and named Seberg. The FBI files reveal that the agency contacted the FBI legal attachs in American embassies in Paris and Rome and provided files on Seberg to the CIA, Secret Service and military intelligence to assist in monitoring Seberg while she was abroad. (AP Photo), Clint Eastwood poses with girlfriend Sondra Locke and his People's Choice Award for favorite motion picture actor in Los Angeles, Ca., March 5, 1981. When thedust settled, Jean found herself alone in her Coldwater Canyon house, paralyzed by depression, Longworth said. As of 2009, their son resides in Spain, where he runs a bookstore and oversees his father's literary and real-estate holdings. On March 12, 1972, Seberg married director Dennis Berry. It was not a good experience at all. Seberg gave a memorable performance as a schizophrenic in the title role of Robert Rossen's Lilith (1964) opposite Warren Beatty and went on to appear in over 30 films in Hollywood and Europe.In the late 1960s, Seberg became involved in anti-war politics and was the target of an undercover campaign by the FBI to discredit her because of her association with several members of the Black Panther party. So, it probably came as a shock only to Seberg that the end of the location shoot also meant the end of the affair. [63] Hasni persuaded her to sell her second apartment on the Rue du Bac, and he kept the proceeds (reportedly 11 million francs in cash), announcing that he would use the money to open a Barcelona restaurant. At the peak of her career, Seberg suddenly stopped acting in Hollywood films. Attorney General John Mitchell and Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst were also kept informed of FBI activities related to Seberg. Joan out of 80,000 applicants in a nationwide talent search. Shereturned to Paris and managed to work in European films but nevergot over the loss of her daughter and persecution by the FBI, according to accounts. She was relieved to receive the offer for Paint Your Wagon, according to Karina Longworth, the host of the You Must Remember This podcast. Also from 2004, Seberg is recalled in the Divine Comedy song "Absent Friends": Little Jean Seberg seemed / So full of life / But in those eyes such troubled dreams / Poor little Jean". The latter hurt more. The child died two days later. In 1970, the FBI planted the false rumour that Seberg was pregnant by a Black Panther Party member in order to cause her embarrassment and cheapen her image with the American public. Her father was of Swedish descent and her mother was of English and German ancestry.One month before her 18th birthday, Jean landed the title role in Otto Preminger's Saint Joan (1957) after a much-publicized contest involving some 18,000 hopefuls. [10], Seberg is interred at the Cimetire du Montparnasse in Paris. Flashback: When John Lennon tried to shame Judy Garland about a suicide attempt Godard and Claude Chabrol were equally smitten with her. She was very sweet, said Fuller, adding the actress put so much energy and persuasion into doing the right thing. Preminger had an option to use her on another film, but they never again worked together. Entertainment | As the now 87-year-old Eastwood prepares to direct his latest film, The 15:17 to Paris, one of his affairs has popped up as a new storyline in the popular Hollywood history podcast You Must Remember This.The podcast currently focuses on the life and times of one of the women Eastwood reportedly bedded: actress Jean Seberg. Born. Seberg and Gary were survived by a son, Diego Gary. ", "Police Rule Out Violence In Death of Actress Seberg", "Forgive me, Seberg wrote in suicide note to her son", "FBI Admits Spreading Lies About Jean Seberg", "El equipo de "Lgrimas negras" expresa su fidelidad a Ricardo Franco", "Jean Seberg International Film Festival is Nov. 1013, 2011", "Chien blanc: le got du risque d'Anas Barbeau-Lavalette", Movie Star: The Secret Lives of Jean Seberg, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean_Seberg&oldid=1141589300, Activists for African-American civil rights, Pages using infobox person with multiple spouses, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2017, Interlanguage link template existing link, Articles with French-language sources (fr), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. Two weeks after Seberg's death in 1979, the FBI admitted what it had done nine years previously. Perhaps most damaging, the FBI planted news stories that she was pregnant with a child by a Black Panther Party member. In France, after appearing in Time Out for Love (Les grandes personnes, 1961), Seberg took the lead role in Moreuil's directorial debut, Love Play (La Recration, also 1961). Seberg has been gone nearly 40 years, but her star as an actress and style icon hasnt really diminished. [18], Seberg made her film debut in the title role of Joan of Arc in Saint Joan (1957), based on the George Bernard Shaw play, having been chosen from among 18,000 hopefuls by director Otto Preminger in a $150,000 talent search. [37] U.S. surveillance was deployed while she was residing in France and while traveling in Switzerland and Italy. All Access Digital offer for just 99 cents! She was the one, as TV show host Ed Sullivan put it, who had caught lightning in a bottle. It's about truly free love, not the silly studio kind as they portray it in this hokey musical, because it's set in Paris in the 60s fashion world & it's a grownup's movie about marriage &I love (&fashion) & life . The irony is that Preminger had been right all along. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello), Clint Eastwood, left, and Hilary Swank speak with Eastwood's mother Ruth at the Governors Ball following the 77th Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2005, in Los Angeles. Moreuil had ambitions to work in film and directed his estranged wife in Love Play. Gary claimed that Seberg "became psychotic" after the media had reported the false story planted by the FBI that she was pregnant with a Black Panther's child in 1970. (AP Photo/Bob Galbraith), Actor/director Clint Eastwood gives his daughter Francesca a kiss at the premiere of his new Warner Bros. adventure film, "Space Cowboys," Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2000, in the Westwood section of Los Angeles. [65], On August 30, 1979, Seberg disappeared from her Paris apartment. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File), Jean Seberg at a press conference in Rome, Italy in 1969, (AP Photo). In 1983, a musical based on Seberg's life called Jean Seberg, by librettist Julian Barry, composer Marvin Hamlisch and lyricist Christopher Adler, was presented at the National Theatre in London. A mysterious end for a woman who led a life of passion, always in search of freedom, love and justice. She was further scorched by critics for her staid performance. The scans below are of the official FBI letter from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. asking permission for the scam. 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She also wrote about independent, foreign and studio movies and occasionally TV and theater stories. BBC Motion Gallery. Its always a bit of a shock that people arent sincere. And Seberg said in a 1974 interview, she had cracked up after Ninas death. The woman Hoover set out to crush was the quintessential young American, the golden sunflower girl from the midwest, as she was characterised. I spoke to Deborah, and Deborah said Oh, its terrible what happened to her and what they did to her, he recalled. While some actresses etch themselves into the collective consciousness by way of charm, good looks, talent, or all three, some are remembered for their tragedies. Preminger was the perfect gentleman off-set but, when the cameras began to roll, he turned into a bad-tempered ogre. This episodic film was originally a collaboration of five directors. Get Morning Report and other email newsletters, Clint Eastwood, color transparencies of him in a car with a camera in 1962. It would have made the perfect story about overnight stardom if it hadnt been for the fact that the film didnt turn out very well. Ten days after actress Jean Seberg had been reported missing, her decomposing body was found wrapped in a blanket in the back seat of her white Renault in Paris. The 1970s were far. But she also falls in love with hishandsome, soft-spoken partner, who is only known as Pardner and who is played by Eastwood. He claimed that she had attempted suicide in July 1979 by jumping in front of a Paris subway train. Without a man, she said, Im like a ship without a rudder.'. Unfortunately, Paint Your Wagon wouldnt do a whole lot for her career. I have this flag in the corner, that I used to put out every morning, and I haven't put it out since. At the time of the leak, Seberg had indeed been pregnant. When he came in the door, her first words were: I want you to meet Diane. Parents. Antoine and I both could not believe the death to be self-inflicted, said Alain Mamou-Mani, who wrote the new French novel Kill Jean with Antoine Lassaigne. She continued to take sedatives and drink heavily. Jean Dorothy Seberg (/sibr/;[2] French:[in seb];[3] November 13, 1938 August 30, 1979) was an American actress who lived half of her life in France. [61] Nina is buried at Riverside Cemetery in Marshalltown. By that time, Seberg had become estranged from Moreuil, and she recollected that production was "pure hell" and that he "would scream at [her]. There was a suicide note to. But for Eastwood, a workplace affair was nothing new. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Seberg, out in UK cinemas this Friday, isnt a straight biopic. I miss that casualness and friendliness of Americans, the kind that makes people smile. But that isolation proved fruitful in some ways. Seberg gave birth to their son, Alexandre Diego Gary, in Barcelona on July 17, 1962. (AP Photo), American actress Jean Seberg and her husband, Romain Gary, are seen at The American Church in Paris, Nov. 18, 1963. Often I will get excited over a luncheon table only to have the hostess say discreetly that coffee will be served in the other room. One of them is the formality. One of the reasons the film went over budget is that director Joshua Logan wanted to shoot in a remote wilderness in northeast Oregon. Jean Dorothy Seberg was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, to substitute teacher Dorothy Arline (Benson) and pharmacist Edward Waldemar Seberg. Jean Seberg, a well known actress in the 60s, became pregnant and the FBI sent out letters to the gossip columnists identifying the baby's father as a Black Panther, in order to cheapen Seberg's image. The film became an international success and critics praised Seberg's performance; film critic and director Franois Truffaut even hailed her as "the best actress in Europe. How much of Seberg is true? 1 of 40. They couldnt live there anymore. (AP Photo/Mark Avery), Clint Eastwood hugs Barbara Streisand after he is awarded the Oscar for Best Director for "Unforgiven" at the 65th Annual Academy Awards telecast in Los Angeles, Monday, March 29, 1993. The media colluded with those two patriarchs, building her up and then knocking her down. Seberg's last American film appearance was in the TV movie Mousey (1974). [54], During her marriage to Gary, Seberg lived in Paris, Greece, Southern France and Majorca. FBI files show that she was wiretapped, and in 1980, the Los Angeles Times published logs of her Swiss wiretapped phone calls. [49] She was not offered any great Hollywood roles, regardless of their size. Hoover even kept President Nixon informed of the FBIs activities related to the actress. Police found a bottle of barbiturates, an empty mineral water bottle, and a note written in French by Seberg addressed to her son. Flashback: When Clint Eastwood was challenged, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Bay Area weather: After thunderstorms and hail, snow could be on the way this weekend, Flashback: When Clint Eastwood was challenged to a real-life duel over an affair to remember, Flashback: When John Lennon tried to shame Judy Garland about a suicide attempt, Photos: Clint Eastwood selling Pebble Beach mansion, Clint Eastwood riding shotgun in Carmel centennial. [44], Seberg and Gary later sued Newsweek for libel and defamation, asking for $200,000 in damages. All she thought about was caring and wanting to do good. By the late 1970s, she was close to being forgotten. 22 Alexandre Diego Gary Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images. Jean Seberg's died at the age of 40, and her death was ruled a probable suicide by police. Seberg got the part. By her own admission, Seberg wasnt obvious casting. Elements of Sebergs story are utterly heartbreaking. Seberg really was a special talent. According to Gary, she had tried to kill herself every year on the anniversary of Ninas death. In the wake of reading the false stories about herself, she went into labour. I also miss blue jeans, milk shakes, thick steaks and supermarkets. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. [4][5], Seberg appeared in 34 films in Hollywood and in Europe, including Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, Lilith, The Mouse That Roared, Breathless, Moment to Moment, A Fine Madness, Paint Your Wagon, Airport, Macho Callahan, and Gang War in Naples. But she became the target of FBI scrutiny due to her support of. In his book, The Life and Legend of Clint Eastwood, he said Eastwood slept with practically all his leading ladies and had a 14-year affair with a stuntwoman from Rawhide who gave birth to his oldest child, a daughter whose existence was kept secret from the public until a 1989 National Enquirer expose. [42] Seberg went into premature labor and, on August 23, 1970, gave birth to a 4lb (1.8kg) baby girl. [16] Seberg had a sister, Mary-Ann, and two brothers, Kurt and David, the younger of whom was killed in a car accident at the age of 18 in 1968. I was their new Jerry Lewis, I suppose, she told journalist Rex Reed, comparing herself to the American comedian who made goofy films with Dean Martin and was treated with near contempt by American critics but revered as Le Roi du Crazy by their French counterparts. "[36] The FBI's strategy and modalities can be found in its interoffice memos. She settled in Paris and continued to work in Europe. Actress-producer Diane Baker (The Diary of Anne Frank, Marnie) was friends with Seberg during this period. When the actress returned to Hollywood in 1968 to make Paint Your Wagon, Airport and Macho Callahan, the FBI became interested in her because not only had she donated money to the Black Panthers, she had begun an affair with a married African American activist. She has previously reported or edited for Bay Area news and lifestyle publications, including Walnut Creek Patch, and Diablo, Oakland and Alameda magazines, as well as The Nation in Bangkok, Thailand and The Economist. The American stars body lay decomposing in a car on a street in Paris for 10 days before the French police discovered it. And Gary called a news conference to tell the world that the baby in question was his and the FBI had destroyed his ex-wifes life. Gary died by suicide the following year. She had prominent roles in all-star blockbusters like Airport (1970) and successfully held her own against such scene-stealers as Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood in Paint Your Wagon (1969). During the long shoot, Jeanamused herself by having an affair with Clint Eastwood, Longworth said. Shes the only person you can trust in Hollywood. He was very polite, Baker continued. Seberg told him what was going on with Eastwood. Sebergs crime, in Hoovers eyes, was her involvement in political causes and her support of the Black Panther Party. She was so misunderstood. He said shes offering money to people on the set, the hairdresser, makeup, anybody who needed it, shes just giving it to them., Christa Fuller, the widow of maverick director Samuel Fuller (The Steel Helmet, The Big Red One), met Seberg during the time she was in Los Angeles and donated $25 to her for the Black Panthers.