Poster art featuring French actresses Brigitte Baardot and Annie Girardot. Annie Girardot 1931 - 2011 Versatile French actor whose work ranged from popular comedy to melodrama Annie Girardot, who has died aged 79 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was an extremely versatile performer whose distinguished career stretched from the Comedie-Francaise, through popular comedies and melodramas to the French New Wave and beyond. Jean Cocteau, in whose play La Machine a Ecrire (The Typewriter) she starred, called her "the finest dramatic temperament of the postwar period". Hardly ever considered a sex goddess like her near contemporaries Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot, the petite Girardot, with her strongly etched features, often set off by short hair, and a warm deep voice was, nevertheless, able to create an erotic charge when needed. Ironically, following her screen debut in 1956, and after nine French films in four years, she came to international prominence when her voice was dubbed into Italian in Luchino Visconti's Rocco e i Suoi Fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers, 1960). Girardot is truly magisterial as the tragic prostitute Nadia, who comes between two brothers, the brutish Simone (Renato Salvatori) and the saintly Rocco (Alain Delon). The jealous Simone beats up Rocco and rapes Nadia. One of the most powerful, almost operatic, moments is when Simone continually stabs Nadia, as she submits in a sacrificial way, a scene that did not escape the Italian censors' scissors. Girardot also appeared in two Visconti stage productions in Paris: William Gibson's Two for the Seesaw (1958), opposite Jean Marais, and Arthur Miller's After the Fall (1964). Before Rocco, Girardot had already played a prostitute or a woman of dubious morality doomed to a violent end in a number of routine films. In contrast, she was known for her comic juvenile leads in Moliere and Marivaux during her period at the Comedie-Francaise between 1954 and 1957. Her favourite part was that of the witty maid in Moliere's Tartuffe. Born in Paris, and brought up during the German occupation, Girardot studied acting at the Paris Conservatoire, before gaining a place at the Comedie-Francaise. While there she took time off to perform on radio, television and in Parisian nightclubs. In 1960, the same year as Rocco, Girardot consolidated her newfound fame in La Proie pour l'Ombre (Shadow of Adultery), Alexandre Astruc's ultra chic contribution to the Nouvelle Vague. Girardot played the wife of a rich building contractor who begins to tire of being merely a social asset to her husband and finds an outlet by running a gallery and taking a lover. In the end, she sacrifices both men for her independence. The film also liberated Girardot from the submissive roles in which she had been plunged. In 1962, she married Salvatori, her co-star from Rocco, and started to appear in comedies and dramas as forceful women. In La Bonne Soupe (How to Make a French Dish, 1963), she was back to prostitution, but in boulevard comedy mode, and in Marco Ferreri's cynical comedy La Donna Scimmia (The Ape Woman, 1964), a hirsute Girardot brought some poignancy to the title role of a creature exploited at a funfair by her husband Ugo Tognazzi. Again for Ferreri, she was the maid seduced by Michel Piccoli, while his wife is in bed with a headache, in Dillinger e Morto (Dillinger Is Dead, 1969). Girardot won the best actress award at Venice in 1965 for her performance as a cynical outcast in Marcel Carne's Trois Chambres a Manhattan (Three Rooms in Manhattan), based on the novel by Georges Simenon. In Vivre Pour Vivre (Live for Life, 1967), directed by Claude Lelouch, she played the abandoned wife of a philandering TV news reporter (Yves Montand). She would continue to vary her roles over the next decade between the gloss of Lelouch (six films), the didacticism of Andre Cayatte (four films, including Mourir d'Aimer – To Die of Love – 1970, as a teacher driven to suicide after an affair with a pupil) and the vivacity of Philippe de Broca (four films). One of the most successful of her de Broca movies was Tendre Poulet (Dear Inspector, 1977), in which she was a police inspector in love with a professor of Greek (Philippe Noiret). She and Noiret made an endearing couple in several films such as La Vieille fille (The Old Maid, 1972), in which they are thrown together on holiday: she a shy, self-effacing single woman, he a carefree womanising bachelor. Girardot adeptly captured first the anger and then the courage of the eponymous cancer victim in Docteur Francoise Gailland (1975), winning the first of her three Cesars (the French equivalent of the Oscar). The other two were for supporting roles in Lelouch's Les Miserables (1995), as a crude farmer's wife, and as Isabelle Huppert's demanding mother in Michael Haneke's perverse La Pianiste (The Piano Teacher, 2001). On receiving the statuette for the former, she burst into tears, saying: "Your love makes me

The Buerger Brothers Building and Annex, at 1732-1740 Champa Street, was built in 1930 by architect Montana Fallis. The building, which housed the Burger Brothers Barbership, which was founded in 1885 by four German brothers--Hugo, Otto, Max and Julius, featured a wholesale showroom on the ground floor and mezzanine stocked with everything from scissors and combs to creams and lotions to beauty shop chairs. On the fourth floor, the Buerger Brothers Supply Company manufactured toilet waters and a group of oil and shampoo products including the "Sorority" line. In 1937, the Buerger Brothers purchased the adjacent Denver Fire Clay Building, a two-story, cast-iron, red-brick Victorian structure by J. Brien in 1895, with a third-floor added in 1927. The Buerger Brothers reclad the facade with gray Art Deco-style terra cotta panels. They stayed in the two buildings until 1972, when a local merchant purchased both with the intention of making them the home of Crest Distributing, who never ended up abandoning their Larimer Street location. The buildings remained abandoned until Sprung Construction renovated them to the design of Oz Architecture and Kimble Hobbs, and in 1998, the Buerger Brothers Lofts opened, with 31 luxury lofts and office space. National Register #98001198 (1998)