Denise Vernac Explained

Denise Vernac
Birth Name:	Denise Yvonne Eveillard
Birth Date:	3 June 1916
Birth Place:	Les Pavillons-sous-Bois, France
Death Place:	Paris, France
Occupation:	Actress
Years Active:	1939 - 1966
Domesticpartner:	Erich von Stroheim (1939–1957)

Denise Vernac (née Denise Yvonne Eveillard;^[1] 3 June 1916 – 31 October 1984), was a French film actress. She appeared in seventeen films, between 1939 and 1966.^[2]

Additionally, Vernac was the secretary and romantic companion of Erich von Stroheim, an Austrian-American actor, film director and producer, and screenwriter.^{[3] [4] [5]}

She died at age 68 and is buried in the cemetery in Maurepas, Yvelines.

Filmography

• Immediate Call (1939)
• Love Cavalcade (1940)
• Paris-New York (1940)
• The Mask of Diijon (1946)
• That's Not the Way to Die (1946)
• The Dance of Death (1948)^[6]
• The Red Signal (1949)^[7]
• Mandragore (1952)
• Alraune (1952),^[8] as Mademoiselle Duvaliere
• The Other Side of Paradise (1953)
• Madonna of the Sleeping Cars (1955)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Vernac, Denise (1916–1984) . idref.fr.
2. [Database]
3. 1946-10-21 . Life Visits a Billionaires' Club . . Time, Inc. . 142.
4. Schmidlin . Rick . 2006 . My Saga of the Newly Discovered Estate of Erich von Stroheim . The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists . 6 . 2 . 101–109 . 1532-3978.
5. Book: Lennig, Arthur . Stroheim . 2003-04-18 . University Press of Kentucky . 978-0-8131-9044-0 . 393 . en.
6. Book: Palacio, Manuel . Transnational Cinema in Europe . Türschmann . Jörg . 2013 . LIT Verlag Münster . 978-3-643-90478-2 . 66.
7. Book: Gobeil, Charlotte . Hommage À Erich Von Stroheim, a Tribute, Compilation of Selected Articles and a Filmography . 1966 . Canadian Film Institute . 50.
8. Book: Young, R. G. . The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film: Ali Baba to Zombies . 2000 . Hal Leonard Corporation . 978-1-55783-269-6 . 14.