The Swiss actress who enjoyed success on television as well as in Hollywood publishes her memoirs in a tone that is both modest and smiling.
His accent would melt ice floes. She has a technicolor smile. His talent is international. In Basel, where she was born, Marthe Keller wanted to be a dancer. At sixteen, a skiing accident shattered his dream. Goodbye barre exercises.
The German-speaking Swiss woman will replace them with rehearsals at the theatre. Philippe de Broca spots her in a play she is performing in Munich and offers her a role in The Devil by the Tail. She recites her dialogues phonetically: she does not speak French. The rest is well known. Arsene Lupine, The Maid of Avignon make her popular. The “little peasant girl Ovomaltine” slams the door in the face of a too indiscreet Darryl Zanuck. Interviews bore her. To the journalists, she tells nonsense, that her father was an alcoholic and that her mother abandoned her and her brother.
She reserved the truth for these Memoirs where it is mainly a question of work. Gossip lovers will be disappointed. The Elsa Opel Marathon Man is modest
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