Anny Duperey
An homage
Anny Duperey as Charlotte in »Un éléphant
ça trompe énormément« (Pardon Mon
Affaire)
Epitome of the dream woman - actress and author, beautiful and brilliant.
Exciting (real) woman in red is more than just eye candy. Listening to her voice is pure pleasure, too.
The actress Anny Duperey
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Extensive data about Anny Duperey's career and
biography with sufficient details and photos as well one will find
- not astounding - especially in French-language context. Thus
especially Anny Duperey's unofficial fan site (anny-duperey.chez-alice.fr) presents
a lot of info and numerous images. There one will find background,
up-to-date news, broadcast dates and a forum, too. Worth
a visit by all means.
Language barrier - you don't speak French? I'm facing the same
problem, therefore here on the right the link to a summary of
several French sources - especially out of interviews - and further
interesting input in English. (Not to be forgotten here: merci
beaucoup, Laure, for your very kind support.) To follow just a
brief dossier.
Anny Duperey, early 1970s
Expressive statement of the French TV magazine Télé-7-Jours about the TV staging of the Giraudoux drama La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu (Engl.: The Trojan War will not take place or Tiger at the Gates), 1981:
The dramatic performances are magnificent at all: one couldn't have imagined a better one as Hèléne - downright the symbol of beauty - than Anny Duperey.
Even the US Playboy magazine has taken notice of her and has
appointed her to be one of the »Sex Stars of 1977«. Probably
because of Pardon mon Affaire, 1976 (the original
of Woman in Red, USA 1984; César nomination) and a trapece
performance in Circus of the Stars on US TV.
And at least the French readers appreciate her so much as author
that her books have got (partly award winning) best-sellers. Some
are even available as translations and were published among others
in English, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch and Chinese.
The most beautiful actress especially well-known in France and
francophone countries appears in movies, TV and on stage. Often
she plays in TV mini serials and also she has already repeatedly
received the 7 d'Or TV award. In Canada she was elected as best
actress of the year and she names many other awards her own.
But in real she likes to be a stage actress. About half a dozen
times she has been nominated for the Molière. In fact she comes
from the theater academy and not from the model scene, although one
just does not really think so due to her appearance.
Nevertheless, sympathically she has remained natural completely.
Why - she already explained in 1977, when a smooth way to Hollywood
was opened (Bobby Deerfield, 1977):
I shall not become a great star like »my friend« Al Pacino - but I really don't want this at all. To be a star changes the character - I could tell of some examples...
[Source: Ulla Reimer in Die erfolgreiche Frau mit den vielen
Eisen im Feuer (Engl.: The successful woman, who has many
strings to her bow), Cinema 2/1977 and Abendpost November 12th
1977.]
Indeed, it is astounding she has not made a big international career.
By the way - Anny Duperey is member of an artist family: her
great-uncle was the impressionist Claude Monet, her father, Lucien
Legras, a famous photographer. [Source: rear side of the GDR Progress
Star Card on the left.]
The writer Anny Duperey
Anny Duperey, early 1980s
Extract (translated out of the German pocket book edition) of her extraordinary remarkable and famous autobiography Le voile noir (Seuil, 1992; Engl.: The Black Veil). It is her attempt to overcome the heavy blow determining her entire life: at eight she lost her parents in an - well - accident. They suffocated in the bathroom. And Anny happened to find them.
It is none of the usual star autobiographies. One is not told which in-drinks together with which in-people in which in-bars were en vogue e.g. in the late summer of 1973. It is very private, frank, even close up to a sober clear off. Without self-adulation, without lachrymose attitude, but sometimes almost without mercy for herself - and the reader. Nevertheless, there is enough room for pointed thoughts. Not for nothing the book was for weeks at the top of the French best-sellers.
At present I have a cat that is allowed to sit down in the middle of the table and to put its nose into my children's plates without causing me to react in the least. I know this maybe surprising. The explanation, however, is just very simple: for many years I have shared my bed and my plate with cats without any negative effects.
[...] I inherit my need for physical nearness towards those animals I like from her [the grandmother]. And my opinion that animals have an equal right to take part in the family life probably derives from her, too.
They were twenty years old. They worked in the same photo store. They liked each other. And my father had asked his pretty colleague to pose for nude photos in order to do some illumination studies yet...
I don't know which artistic result these nightly sessions had, anyhow they had another very obvious result: me.
End of Le voile noir or its continuation, so she calls it, is Les chats de hasard (Seuil, 1999; Engl.: Cats of Destiny). Even if it is hard to imagine: an even more personal book of a cat loving woman not only for other cat lovers. Therefore for weeks on top of the French best-sellers, too.
Anny Duperey, late 1990s
[...] People, who love cats adore the cats' independence, because that guarantees their own freedom. They don't stand restrictions neither for themselves nor for others. They have this pride that those, who love them should choose them each day without restrictions and could go anytime completely without any closed doors, leashes, negotiations. [...]
So I ran to the pharmacist, who always discreetly suppresses a laugh attack, when I rush into his shop, because after I had once bought baby antibiotics for my cat, and another time mother milk replacement for a squirrel, now it concerns baby pap for a bird - »Neutral or with vanilla taste?« he asked mischievously.
All for nothing but the cat (Animal Farm):
Farm
Exactly what I say all the time, too: not the cats are humanized, but the humans are cat-ized ;-)
Honi soit qui mal y pense - a scoundrel, who thinks badly by it
Anny Duperey, mid 1980s
Picture(s) at an exhibition
Exhibitor idle, the booth service on the measurement trade
fair started to get boring, therefore I played a little with the
computer. In the recycle bin I discovered deleted files, obviously also
some from running-in the video processing system. One of the images
showed Anny Duperey in the party scene of Pardon mon
Affaire, see the screenshot at the top of this page. I
was about to close it, when someone asked me from the rear how many
hours it had taken to draw this portrait. »Fractions of a
second, a frame grabber doesn't require more time.
« After a few seconds
break: »wait a moment, does that mean the lady in the image does exist
in reality?
« Bewilderedly the computer scientist fetched his
colleague, who admired her as well. When they had just said
good-bye, a voice behind me asked »Sorry, don't want to buy
anything, but would you mind showing the picture of the lady
again?
«. Astounded I turned, three fairgoers friendly
nodding to me and then started to view the picture devoutly. Some
minutes later, when they had just left thanking an affable sales
manager, type cruise captain - blue, striped double-breasted suit,
gold buttons, twinkling jacket crowns, golden Rolex ... - of the
neighbor booth of the major enterprises approached »Young
fellow, you don't really want to claim, this lady on the picture
works in your company, don't you?!
« Surprised I denied. But
considered afterwards, admission fee would have paid itself more
than the trade fair.
(By the way: also as screen saver the screenshot can causes a
crowd around the PC monitor. Even in the office.)
Make an educated guess of what you think of, when you park in the
underground garage after you have seen her in the dancing scene of
Pardon mon Affaire.
Such blue eyes
Eyes so blue
make me so sentimental. Carefully I
prepared myself to get in contact (about the year 15 A.D. ;-) and I
struggled through to write to her agency. Surprisingly the reply
consisted of a personalized autograph card and some lines
she wrote and sent by her own. And the high-speed thinker
I am has just realized after all these years that she looks, at
least sometimes, somehow dreamy even close up to melancholy and
almost I should have addressed her to this case...
Farou (Jean Rochefort) to Fanny (Anny Duperey) in La
Seconde:
You are looking so pretty but so blue. Are you blue then?
But then I have happened to stumble over her autobiography - my
worst foreboding I should have wanted to clear in a maybe optional
conversation very carefully (of course, preferably I should have
seen them scattered!) unfortunately have been confirmed.
But, however, I wasn't really through with the complete matter
yet. For details see [Anny Time].
Or to say it with Thomas Wolfe in Dark in the Forest, strange
as Time:
[...] a woman so beautiful that the remembrance of her should haunt the memory of the one, who saw her for ever [...].
She is a beauty
Anny Duperey, early 1990s
Elected, of course, it is just a list of various photo
services. For instance among others there are Flickr,com, Elle.fr,
Femmes.com, Francessoir.fr, Gala.fr, Lefigaro.fr, Leparisien.fr and
Premiere.fr.
You will often find the photos in »Editorial«, if
necessary just search for »duperey«.
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Getty Images (editorial.gettyimages.com; very large extent)
Ending with some kaleidoscope screenshots.
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