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By PEER J. OPPENHEIMER
France's latest export
is a Parisian pretty
who's funny, too
Qhe's barely five feet tall, weighs a smidgen over 90
w pounos, nas reacusn-Drown nair, a pixie lace, a con
tagious giggle, and a ready smile. With the sparkle and charm
of a petite French doll, she will probably succeed Lucille
Ball as queen of television's comediennes.
Her name is Annie Farge, and she's the 24-year-old Parisi
enne cast as a French girl married to an American architect
in the new TV series, "Angel."
Annie started out with all the odds against her ever be
coming a comedienne. She had a terrifying childhood, which
saw her torn from her parents at four and forced to live
under an assumed name in the shadow of death forfive years.
Yet Annie always came up smiling. She still does.
Annie's real name is Goldfarb. When the Nazis invaded her
homeland in 1940, like other children of the Jewish faith she
was earmarked for death.
Annie's parents had been divorced when she was a baby,
and her father had fled to Switzerland before the Wehrmacht
steam-rolled into France. Unable to get herself and her chil
dren out of the country in time, her mother hurried four-year-old
Annie and her six-year-old brother Louis to a
friend's farm in Belgium, then went into hiding herself.
Annie was nine when the war ended and she and her
brother rejoined their mother in Paris. Mrs. Goldfarb then
owned a children's clothing store. One afternoon, when Annie
was 11, she talked her mother into letting her mind the store
while Mrs. Goldfarb went on an errand. When her mother
returned, Annie proudly announced the coup of the month:
she had sold three dresses for twice the price marked on the
sales tag! Sighed Annie as she recalled the incident: "I deed
not know why my mother was so opset. I thought zat was zee
way business was done ..."
Annie, who prided herself on being tops in what she refers
to as "zee old French costom of bargaineeng . . ." continued
to bargain for anything and everything even in the U.S.
Once she went to a Fifth Avenue store to buy a dress
marked down from $100 to $75. The word "Sale" convinced
Annie that this was the beginning of a bargaining session,
and she offered to pay $50, "all cash." The best she could do
was settle for $62! "My husband was terreeblee opset," Annie
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- Pert, petite Annie Farge will adapt her French dramatic
training to a starring role in a U.S. TV comedy series.
From the window of their Paris house,
Annie and her husband
Dirk Sanders watch world go by.
admits. "I promeesed: nevair zee bargaineeng again."
Annie first confronted her mother with her desire to be
come an actress when she was 14. Mrs. Goldfarb wouldn't
even discuss her daughter's notions.
"Not even if I were accepted by the Conservatoire Ra
tionale?" Annie came back, wide-eyed. The Conservatoire is
the most famous dramatic school in France", associated with
the Comedie Francaise, and most difficult to get into.
"If you were accepted by the Conservatoire but that is
impossible," her mother replied self-assuredly. Except for
appearing in a few school plays, Annie had no training.
"In that case, I will be an actress," Annie announced
happily for she had just auditioned for admission and had
been one of 10 students accepted out of 3,000 applicants.
Annie's vivaciousness, personality, and talent earned her
the "Critique de Paris" award when she graduated at 16 and
led to many starring parts in classics as well as comedies. It
also led to the acquaintance of another member of the Come
die Francaise, her husband-to-be, Dirk Sanders.
Although Annie considered Dirk a potential husband from
the time she first laid eyes on him, he looked on her as a
wide-eyed little girl. When he still wasn't sure the time was
right for marriage six years later, Annie followed him to New
York where he was with the Roland Petit Ballet.
Within 24 hours of her arrival, they were married and have
since been blessed with daughter Leslie.
Compared with Annie's trials and tribulations in her native
France, getting her career started in the U.S. was easy.
An agent forwarded her photograph to producer Jess
Oppenheimer in Hollywood. He was so impressed that he
had her make a tape recording in New York, then signed her
to a long-term contract without bothering to give her a
screen test
Today, Annie's only regret is that her husband is in South
America starring in his first dramatic role, while she is en
trenched in a Hollywood house with a baby, a French nurse
who can't speak English, and a car she can't drive.
"Soon everytheeng weel be okay-dokay," she says hope
fully. With Annie's disposition, how could it be otherwise?
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