French Actress Annabella Dies At 86

Suzanne Charpentier, the French actress better known by her screen name Annabella for such films as “Napoleon” and “Hotel du Nord,” has died of a heart attack, a friend said Thursday. She was 86.

Annabella, who was once married to American actor Tyrone Power, died Wednesday at her home in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine while she was having her morning tea, Jose Sourillan said.

Annabella’s career began with Abel Gance’s silent, epic-length “Napoleon” in 1926, which was restored in the mid-1980s by American director Francis Ford Coppola.

She also starred in a string of 1930s talkies that took a sentimental view of working class Paris, including the 1938 classic “Hotel du Nord.”