Marie-Blanche Vergne

Born in Colombes on September 22, 1934, just a few days before Brigitte Bardot, to whom her singing style is reminiscent, Marie-Blanche Vergne made her stage debut in 1954 and her film debut two years later. She appeared in the play Hibernatus (1957) and in several feature films in which she was not credited, before a role in Michel Gast's J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (1959), based on the novel by Boris Vian. She also appeared on television in dramas such as La Lettre dans un cab (1961, music: Serge Gainsbourg) and series including an episode of L'Inspecteur mène l'enquête (1962). In 1963, she formed a duo with Jacqueline Monsigny for her first record, the EP Deux Amies de la TV Chantent pour Vous. Married to Jean-Claude Averty, in 1967 she sang one of his lyrics on the song "Au risque de vous déplaire", with music by Serge Gainsbourg, on the EP J'ai L'Amour à Fleur de Peau. The following year, her role in Alain Resnais's film Je t'aime, je t'aime was partially cut. Marie-Blanche Vergne continued her singing career with a single untitled album released on the Columbia label in 1969, produced by various arrangers, Alain Goraguer, François Rauber, Jean-Claude Pelletier and Jean-Claude Vannier. She went on to record the singles "La Veuve du hibou " (1970), "Bloody Mary" (1971) and "Fais-moi valser Frankenstein" (1972). Her film career continued until 1975 in Robert Enrico's Le Vieux fusil, and on television until 1985. Suffering from cancer, she died on July 28, 1989 at the age of 54.

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