Portrait of Agnes Bernelle Agnes Bernelle 1923 - 1999

Stage & Screen

Radio:

In 1943 she began broadcasting to Germany as "Vicky" a 'Black Propaganda' radio announcer for Allied Radio Atlantik, famous for demoralizing a German U-Boat Captain into surrendering with one of her broadcasts.
"This was the subject of the recent Channel 4 documentary Sex Bomb"
states Wikipedia. (see more information about the broadcasts in the War Years section).

Many other radio performances include:
The Scarlet Pimpernel & The Third Man (opposite Orson Welles)

British Radio 4 & RTE Radio 1 have both done series' based on her life.

Stage:

• Oscar Wilde's Salome
Performed in 1956 she became the first 'non-stationary nude' in British theatre, after removing her leotard during the 'Dance of the Seven Veils', breaking the Lord Chamberlain’s censorship rule that nudes must remain stationary.
• Savagery And Delight
(First One Woman Show of Weimar-era Brechtian songs, 1963)
• Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer, 1978 (read more on Wikipedia)

Other performances include:
The Jocelyn Circle, Pride and Prejudice, Hamlet, Ruffian on the Stair, The Mother, The Blue Macushla and Conversations About An Absent Lover - her second One Woman Show (written by Pater Hack about Goethe's mistress).

She had also directed 11 plays including 'Lulu' and 'Archie & Mehitabel' by 1985.

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