Prior to her film debut, Farner made at least one notable stage appearance in 1962, starring in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Ingolstadt.
[3] 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.
3, and she was ruled out, too, but nobody will say why...[4]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.
[2] Although it is unclear when or how they first met, or whether or not they ever collaborated professionally, Farner's remarks about the late director Léonide Moguy in the introduction to his 2018 biography clearly convey the esteem in which she still held her "sublime" friend more than three decades after his death.
Début 1976, je l'ai revu et son regard bienveillant me poursuit encore et me prodigue une sérénité chaleureuse.