Jane Marnac


Jane Marnac, real name Jane Fernande Mayer,, 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. "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.
Marnac was considered a stylish stage beauty, with "the wonderful voice and the equally wonderful eyes." She was "said to possess the prettiest legs in all Paris." Her gowns and hats were described in fashion magazines. Her image was printed on postcards, posters, and other souvenirs. Her regimen for maintaining her complexion and figure was reported to be ice, rest, and exercise.
Jane Marnac appeared in films, including The Darling of Paris with Jean Gabin, and made musical recordings for the Columbia label in 1930. Josephine Baker performed a parasol dance imitating Marnac's appearance in Somerset Maugham's Rain. Marnac and her husband owned racehorses, and ran a production company together.

Personal life

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

Theatre