Eugenie Heyns

(b. 11/06/1925 – d. **/**/****). Actress. Together with her husband, Pierre de Wet, she was a member of the Volksteater under Anna Neethling-Pohl. Her stage appearances included Skewe Straatjie (1945), with Jan Schutte and Gert van den Bergh; the female lead in Romeo and Juliet (1949) opposite Leon Gluckman, directed by André van Gyseghem and staged at the Wits Great Hall and the Pretoria Opera House for the Johannesburg Repertory Theatre to celebrate its twenty-first anniversary; and two small parts in Macbeth, with André Huguenet and Anna Neethling-Pohl for the Nasionale Toneelorganisasie (NTO).

She acted in four films for African Film Productions, all of them directed by Pierre de Wet: Pinkie se Erfenis (1946), Geboortegrond (1946), Simon Beyers (1947) and Kom Saam Vanaand! (1949) (FO)

Sources

Binge, L.W.B. - Ontwikkeling van die Afrikaanse toneel

Botha, Danie - Voetligte en applous!

Le Roux, André I. & Fourie, Lilla – Filmverlede: geskiedenis van die Suid-Afrikaanse speelfilm

Tucker, Percy - Just the ticket!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4628344/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

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