On August 8, 1935, in sunlit Sceaux outside Paris, Alain Delon was born into a fractured home, a lonely child destined to become cinema’s most hypnotic face. Abandoned by divorcing parents at four, he moved through foster families, his icy blue eyes already carrying menace and melancholy. Without taking a single acting lesson, Delon stunned the world in 1960’s Purple Noon, embodying Tom Ripley with a beauty so cold it felt dangerous. Luchino Visconti dubbed him “the male Garbo,” while Orson Well