Anne Vernon

{{Short description|French actress}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}}

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| image = Anne Vernon 1957.jpg

| name = Anne Vernon

| birth_name = Édith Antoinette Alexandrine Vignaud

| caption = Vernon in Count Max (1957)

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1924|1|09|df=y}}

| birth_place = Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France

| death_date =

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| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1948–1972; 1995

| spouse = Robert Badinter (m. 1957; divorced)[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/12/robert-badinter-obituary Obituary: Robert Badinter], theguardian.com. 12 February 2024. Accessed 2 April 2024.

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Anne Vernon (born Édith Antoinette Alexandrine Vignaud; 9 January 1924)[https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fencinematheque.net%2Foeil%2FY008%2F#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url Profile], encinematheque.net. Accessed 25 February 2024.[https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/4768426:9800?tid=&pid=&queryId=ce2f1cb5-efa4-4e38-93d1-e1f165dff0a5&_phsrc=UZl16&_phstart=successSource Edith Antoinette Vignaud Badinter in the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Immigration Cards, 1900-1965]. Accessed 2 April 2024. is a French retired film and television actress who appeared in 40 films between 1948 and 1970, including three films that were entered into the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/artist/id/13755.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Anne Vernon |access-date=29 October 2010|work=festival-cannes.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015103415/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/artist/id/13755.html |archive-date=October 15, 2012}} She appeared in films of multiple countries, including French, British, Italian, and American. As of 2025, she is believed to be among the last surviving leading ladies of the 1940s cinema.

Career

Anne Vernon made her film debut in the 1948 French-Belgian film The Murdered Model, playing the supporting role of Irène. In 1949, she starred in the British romantic comedy Warning to Wantons opposite Harold Warrender. The same year, she starred in the French drama Thus Finishes the Night with Claude Dauphin. She appeared in her only American film in 1950, having a secondary role in the film noir Shakedown.

Vernon continued being the leading lady throughout the 1950s across different genres in multiple countries. These include Edward and Caroline, a French comedy film that competed at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival, and MGM British's 1953 production Time Bomb, a film noir where she played the wife of Glenn Ford's character. In 1955, she starred in an Eastern German film called Das Fräulein von Scuderi. She had a supporting role in the Italian-French drama General Della Rovere, which won the Golden Lion at the 1959 Venice International Film Festival. She was in the 1958 short film La Joconde: Histoire d'une obsession, which won the Palme d'Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.

File:Il generale Della Rovere (1959) Anne Vernon.png (1959)]]

In 1964, Vernon played the mother of Catherine Deneuve's character Geneviève in the French-West German musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. In the United States, it was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Foreign-Language Film, Best Original Screenplay (Demy), and Best Original Score (Demy and Legrand). The film's main theme, "I Will Wait for You", was nominated for Best Original Song. It was later adapted into an English-language stage musical. In 2018, a BBC Culture critics' poll ranked the film in the Top 100 Greatest Non-English Films of All Time.{{Cite web|title=The 100 greatest foreign-language films|url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20181029-the-100-greatest-foreign-language-films|access-date=2021-07-14|website=www.bbc.com}}

By the late 1960s, Vernon's film career had slowed down. Her last film role was in the erotic drama Therese and Isabelle (1968). She, however, continued to work in various television series and TV movies.

Personal life

Vernon was married three times. She married politician Robert Badinter in 1957. They divorced in 1965. Her second husband was René Gainville, a film director to whom she was married between 1970-1975. In 1988, she married Jean-Pierre Prouteau, a marriage that lasted for ten years until his death in 1998.

Vernon celebrated her 100th birthday on 9 January 2024, making her a centenarian.

Filmography

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Year

!Title

!Role

!Country

1948

|The Murdered Model

|Irène

|France/Belgium

rowspan=2|1949

|Warning to Wantons

|Renée de Vaillant

|United Kingdom

Thus Finishes the Night

|Catherine Beryl

|France

rowspan=2|1950

|Shakedown

|Nita Palmer

|United States

Pact with the Devil

|Andrea Mola's sister

|Italy

rowspan=3|1951

|A Tale of Five Cities

|Jeannine Meunier

|United Kingdom/Italy

Rue des Saussaies

|Jeanne Masson

|France

Edward and Caroline

|Caroline Mortier

|France

rowspan=3|1952

|The Mistress of Treves

|Genoveffa di Brabante

|France/Italy/West Germany

Song of Paris

|Clementine

|United Kingdom

Massacre in Lace

|Thérésa Larsen

|France

rowspan=3|1953

|Time Bomb

|Janine Lyncort

|United Kingdom

Rue de l'Estrapade

|Françoise Laurent

|France

Jeunes Maries

|Gisèle Delaroche

|France

1954

|The Love Lottery

|Jane Dubois

|United Kingdom

rowspan=4|1955

|

Das Fräulein von Scuderi

|Madelon

|East Germany

Beautiful but Dangerous

|Carmela

|Italy/France

Bel Ami

|Clothilde de Marelle

|Austria/France/East Germany

The Affair of the Poisons

|Hermine Des Oeillets

|France/Italy

rowspan=3|1956

|Suspicion

|Claire Grandjean

|France

The Width of the Pavement

|Hélène Dupré

|France/Italy

Ce Soir les Jupons Volent

|Catherine Piedeboeuf

|France

rowspan=4|1957

|Robbery in Old Lace

|Françoise Dumont

|France

The Suspects

|Lucette Vignon

|France

Les Lavandières du Portugal

|Catherine Deligny

|France

Count Max

|Baroness Elena di Villombrosa

|Italy/Spain

rowspan=2|1958

|Federal Police

|Violette Chatelard

|France

La Joconde: histoire d'une obsession (short)

|

|France

rowspan=2|1959

|General Della Rovere

|Clara Fassio

|Italy/France

El Casco Blanco

|

|France/Spain

1961

|Laura Nuda

|Claudia

|Italy/France

1962

|Arsene Lupin contre Arsene Lupin (aka Arsene Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes)

|Madame de Bellac

|France/Italy

rowspan=2|1964

|The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

|Madame Emery

|France/West Germany

Friend of the Family

|Véronique Carradine

|France/Italy

rowspan=3|1966

|Trap for the Assassin

|Henriette Laroque

|France/Italy

Man from Mykonos

|Dorothée

|France/Italy/Belgium

The Sea Pirate

|Decrees

|France/Italy/Spain

rowspan=2|1968

|The Woman is a Stranger

|Sophie

|France

Therese and Isabelle

|Mademoiselle Le Blanc

|France/Netherlands/United States/West Germany

Television

  • Reves d'amour (aka Dreams of Love) (1962) (TV Movie)
  • Le Tartuffe (1962) (TV Movie)
  • Dernier Amour (1963) (TV Movie)
  • Bonjour Tristesse (1965) (TV Movie)
  • Illusions Perdues (aka Lost Illusions) (1965) (TV Series)
  • Malican peres et fils (1967) (TV Series)
  • Au Theatre ce Soir (1969) (TV Series)
  • Le Cyborg ou Le Voyage Vertical (1970) (TV Movie)
  • Mauregard (1970) (TV Series)
  • Les Dernieres volontes de Richard Lagrange (TV Series) (1972)
  • Pont Dormant (1972) (TV Series)

References

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