Jane Marnac

Jane Marnac
Jane Marnac
Born
Jane Fernande Mayer

8 February 1892
Brussels
Died2 December 1976(1976-12-02) (aged 84)
16th arrondissement of Paris
Other namesJeanne Marnac, Jane Trevor
OccupationActress
Years active1912 - 1938
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Jane Marnac, real name Jane Fernande Mayer, (8 February 1892 – 2 December 1976), also seen as Jeanne Marnac, was a Belgian stage and film actress.

Career

Marnac played hundreds of parts on stage, and sang in operettas including Au temps des valses by Noël Coward in 1930 at the Apollo.[1] "Mlle. Marnac excels in the role of those heroines who, beginning life in the first act amid humble surroundings, manage to appear before the end of the last wreathed in pearls", Vanity Fair noted in 1922.[2]

Marnac was considered a stylish stage beauty,[3][4][5] with "the wonderful voice and the equally wonderful eyes."[6] She was "said to possess the prettiest legs in all Paris."[7] Her gowns and hats were described in fashion magazines.[8][9] Her image was printed on postcards, posters, and other souvenirs.[10][11] Her regimen for maintaining her complexion and figure was reported to be ice, rest, and exercise.[12]

Jane Marnac appeared in films, including The Darling of Paris with Jean Gabin,[13] and made musical recordings for the Columbia label in 1930.[14][15] Josephine Baker performed a parasol dance imitating Marnac's appearance in Somerset Maugham's Rain.[16] Marnac and her husband owned racehorses, and ran a production company together.[17]

Personal life

In 1927,[18] Marnac married an English aviator, sportsman, and World War I veteran, Major Keith Trevor, as his second wife.[17][19] He became the chair of the British Chamber of Commerce in Paris, and he died in 1956.[20][21] She was the victim of a robbery in 1958, at her home in the Bois de Boulogne.[20] She died in 1976, at the age of 84, in Paris.[22]

Theatre

Filmography

References

  1. ^ a b "An Errant Coward". Hearst's International. 94: 158. February 1933.
  2. ^ "Mlle. Jane Marnac". Vanity Fair. Vol. 19. September 1922. p. 57.
  3. ^ "Dainties from France and Russia--Piquant and Sweet". The Sketch. 71: 8. 24 August 1910.
  4. ^ de Linares, Antonio G. (16 November 1923). "La escuela de los empresarios, ó el abrigo de Jane Marnac". Nuevo Mundo. 30.
  5. ^ Wilson, Robert Forrest (1925). Paris on Parade. Bobbs-Merrill Company. p. 56.
  6. ^ a b "Mlle. Jane Marnac". Tatler. 73: 234. 20 August 1919.
  7. ^ "Priscilla in Paris: Mlle. Jane Marnac". The Tatler. 71: 152. 3 February 1919.
  8. ^ "The Paris Stage: Personalities of the New Plays and Revues". La France. 4 (11): 124. August 1920.
  9. ^ "Simply Pleasing: Mlle. Jeanne Marnac". The Sketch. 67: 8. 14 July 1909.
  10. ^ Aubenas, Sylvie; Chardin, Virginie; Demange, Xavier (2007). Elegance: The Seeberger Brothers and the Birth of Fashion Photography. Chronicle Books. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-8118-5942-4.
  11. ^ Merrill, Jane (2018). The Showgirl Costume: An Illustrated History. McFarland. p. 180. ISBN 978-1-4766-3433-3.
  12. ^ Muir, Hugh (31 January 1932). "Her Beauty Secret is Just Ice". Sunday Dispatch. p. 15. Retrieved 3 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ Cameron, Kate (30 December 1932). "'Paris-Beguin', French Musical, Runs Too Long". Daily News. p. 71. Retrieved 3 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ Snelson, John (2023). Reviewing the Situation: The British Musical from Noël Coward to Lionel Bart. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 31. ISBN 978-1-350-27961-2.
  15. ^ "Jane Marnac". Discography of American Historical Recordings. Archived from the original on 2025-03-31. Retrieved 2025-04-03.
  16. ^ Udall, Sharyn R. (2012). Dance and American Art: A Long Embrace. University of Wisconsin Pres. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-299-28803-7.
  17. ^ a b "French Actress in 'Bitter Sweet'". Evening Standard. 25 September 1929. p. 6. Retrieved 3 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Major Keith Trevor Weds Paris Actress; Englishman, Well Known in Racing Circles, Marries Mlle. Jane Marnac". The New York Times. 26 May 1927. p. 17. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
  19. ^ "Won the French Beauty by Losing His Bet". The San Francisco Examiner. 4 September 1927. p. 83. Retrieved 3 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ a b "Widow Robbed of Gems". The Daily Telegraph. 15 April 1958. p. 16. Retrieved 3 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ "Letter from Paris". The Daily Telegraph. 10 December 1956. p. 8. Retrieved 3 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ^ "Jane Marnac (1892-1976)". BnF Data. Archived from the original on 22 February 2025. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
  23. ^ Chothia, Jean (1991). André Antoine. Cambridge University Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-521-25219-5.
  24. ^ "Jane Marnac". Motion Picture Classic. 21 (1): 61. March 1925.
  25. ^ Wolfram, Theodore (11 December 1926). "Paris". The Billboard. 38: 47.
  26. ^ Benstock, Shari (2010-06-28). Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78298-3.
  27. ^ Traubner, Richard (2004). Operetta: A Theatrical History. Routledge. p. 299. ISBN 978-1-135-88783-4.
  28. ^ a b Moules, Patrick (2020). The 9.5mm Vintage Film Encyclopaedia. Troubador Publishing Ltd. pp. 70, 71. ISBN 978-1-83859-269-1.
  29. ^ Hardy, Phil (1997). The BFI Companion to Crime. A&C Black. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-304-33215-1.
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