One could have thought Lyne Chardonnet had been blessed by the gods and would live a long successful happy life For she really had everything to make it A waspwaisted blondhaired girl of radiant beauty with a good drama training she should have become a movie star and she would have been one if she had been born twenty years before that is before the French New Wave set new standards when ingénues like her were still in demand Well she WAS given one or two parts which gave her the opportunity to shine such as the Jacotte she nicely portrayed in Michel Devilles elegant Benjamin alongside Pierre Clémenti as virgin Benjamin and Michel Piccoli as his mentor 1967 or tragic Marie Vetseras younger sister in Terence Youngs version of Mayerling 1968 However despite this encouraging debut roles soon dwindled to next to nothing a few brief appearances as a blond hostess a blond secretary or even as a blond nun Lyne Chardonnet sure deserved better She had born in Paris in the last years of World War II to a fakir Léopold Chardonnet and his wife Ellen Shapiro of Irish origin At the age of five Lyne was already taking dancing lessons
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