Véronique Vendell

Birthday: 1942-07-21
Birthplace: Lodève, France
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned

On July 21, 1942, Claude Marie Rose Durafourd, future Vendell, was born in Lodève (Hérault), into a family of doctors. the one who will opt for the nickname Véronique Vendell for three brothers. Two will follow the family path, another will become a painter.

She arrives in Paris with a real battle plan, everything is planned, thought out, studied, it can only succeed. With her look directly inspired by the essential Brigitte Bardot mixed with a zest of Monroe and a hint of Mansfield, Véronique sets out to attack film festivals with touching regularity and determination. She is of course all blonde and smiles and it goes without saying, dressed in the most revealing dresses possible.

Véronique will always arrive in Cannes in a transparent blouse as if it were a ticket to the top of the bill. She quickly debuted at the Théâtre du Gymnase with “Adieu Prudence” and was filming “Rencontres” at the cinema. The newspapers publish photos of her tiny bikinis, material to feed the slew of weeklies devoted to cinema in constant demand for empty information to complete the magazines in question. The champions of the genre being Jayne Mansfield, Elaine Stewart and Corinne Calvet, Véronique will not be left out. However, she filmed, and her filmography is consistent. Thus, if she begins to rotate in “Les Amours Célèbres” between Feuillère, Girardot and Laforêt, she only appears for a fleeting moment.

This cinema will be less tender with Véronique than what we still call the celebrity press, but she will nevertheless be able to film for big names thanks mainly to Italy. In “Lo La Conoscevo Bene” in 1965 she already seems to be parodying herself. Wearing a lamé dress cut low to the waist and which we will see her carrying around to quite a few festivals, she is wearing a platinum blonde bun that seems to have been polished with explosives. Which in hindsight gives it quite a punk side! She's a starlet invited to a private party and has only one line: "Oh yes, I've been in the movies." An advertisement for a lipstick. Only my mouth but on a giant screen measuring five by ten meters! » To which a smartass replies, “Make advertisements for panties instead!” »

She was also part of a few American adventures, notably with “La Nuit des Généraux” where she was part of the “French contingent” with Philippe Noiret, Juliette Greco and Pierre Mondy. But alas, Véronique will be out of luck again. While she was expected to be a real revelation at the film's premiere in New York, the weather conditions were disastrous; Her plane arrives very late and not only does she miss the ceremony but she finds herself stuck at the airport in a New York paralyzed by a snowstorm! Not a taxi on the horizon to take him to his hotel, failing to bring him to the covetousness of New York photographers...

Credits

Year Title Character
1979-03-01 Breakthrough Yvette
1977-01-29 Cross of Iron Marga
1973-11-30 Battle of the Godfathers Kate
1973-03-29 From Hong Kong with Love Meredith Harris
1971-10-08 The Resort Girls Tisch-Tänzerin bei Après-Ski Party
1971-03-19 Between Miracles Ragazza 'chiacchierata'
1971-03-16 The Superwitness L'amica fotografa
1970-12-22 Dial Love for Murder Gina
1970-05-15 How to Play the Seduction Game Marquise
1969-09-24 Police Chief Pepe Maristella Diotallevi
1969-07-25 Women for Sale Ann
1969-04-17 I See Naked Manuela
1968-10-31 Mayerling Lisi Stockau
1968-10-10 Barbarella Captain Moon
1968-09-01 Tower of Screaming Virgins Jeanne
1967-02-22 The Witches Young Girl Friend (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
1967-01-29 The Night of the Generals Monique
1966-09-28 Soldier Martin Zouzou
1966-07-13 The Man From Mykonos Pascale
1965-12-27 Weekend, Italian Style L'altra Giuliana
1965-12-01 I Knew Her Well Alice Stendhal
1965-09-10 When the Pheasants Pass Jeanne
1964-07-10 Code 7, Victim 5 Gina
1964-03-11 Becket French Prostitute
1964-01-17 Dalia and the Sailors Dalia
1962-09-05 Snobs! Une fille avec Lambotte (uncredited)
1962-02-16 Rencontres Micky
1961-10-25 House of Sin (uncredited)