Ellen Farner

Ellen Farner (born 1941 in Germany) is a former actress and model, active between 1962 and 1970, best known for her role in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964). Career Prior to her film debut, Farner made at least one notable stage appearance in 1962, starring in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Ingolstadt. On June 1, 1964, four months after Cherbourg's French premiere, Newsweek reported a brief Farner sighting roughly halfway through producer Albert Zugsmith's protracted search for the female lead in what would prove the first of many screen adaptations of the 18th-century erotic novel, Fanny Hill. ... Zugsmith then tried France's Veronique Vendell, but she was too voluptuous and too busty for the role of a teen-age country girl just come to London. Ellen Farner was Fanny No. 3, and she was ruled out, too, but nobody will say why... Although most of the plaudits received by Cherbourg's cast, at least among American critics, were reserved for the two romantic leads, at least two reviewers made special note of Farner's moving delineation of a young girl's maturation.