Dido Renoir; Widow of Film Director

Dido Renoir, 83, widow of film director Jean Renoir who worked as his script girl on the classic “The Rules of the Game” before coming with him to the U.S. in 1941. In 1944 she became the second wife of the man who directed such visually realistic and artistically acclaimed pictures as “The Little Match Girl,” “The River,” “Swamp Water,” “The Southerner” and many more. She was a native of Brazil who had come to Europe as an assistant to her film director uncle and met Renoir in the late 1930s. Renoir, son of Impressionist Auguste Renoir, died in 1979. In Beverly Hills on Monday of cancer.