Annie Vernay | |
Birth Date: | 21 November 1921 |
Birth Place: | Geneva, Switzerland |
Death Date: | 15 August 1941 |
Death Place: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Othername: | Annie Martine Jacqueline Vermeersch |
Occupation: | Actress |
Annie Vernay (November 21, 1921 - August 15, 1941) was a French actress, who emerged as a star of the French cinema before her sudden death at the age of nineteen. After winning a beauty contest, Vernay appeared in seven French films including Max Ophüls's The Novel of Werther (1938).[1]
Her performances attracted interest from American studios. While en route to Hollywood via the Atlantic, she contracted typhus and died in Buenos Aires.