Jeanne Marleau

Jeanne Marleau (sometimes also known as Jeanne Marlo) performed in Dutch rep and revues in the years just after the war and the early Fifties. She shared the stage with famous names (in Holland) such as Lou Bandy and the Kilima Hawaijans. She married in 1955, had children and because of her illness (reumatoid arthritis) led a quiet life until the film Maria came along in the early Eighties. Director/writer/actor Peter Jan Rens asked her to play the part of Maria, which she did sat in a wheel chair because by that time she had also been diagnosed with MS. It was to be her last performance. She retired to anonymity in the Dutch countryside. On February 12th 1995 she died suddenly of a heart attack.