Claire Gérard

Claire Gérard

Born: March 12, 1889
Died: March 24, 1971
in Saint-Gilles, Brussels-Capital, Belgium

Movies for Claire Gérard...

The Magic of the Kite
Title: The Magic of the Kite
Character: gossip
Released: December 17, 1958
Type: Movie
Come fly with Peter and Nicole and the Chinese wizard on an exciting adventure to the ends of the earth.
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The Happy Road
Title: The Happy Road
Character: Patronne d'hotel in Valval
Released: June 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Two children run away from a Swiss boarding school and set out for Paris, with their frantic parents in hot pursuit.
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Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Title: Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Released: October 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to live together with Gabrielle and Fernand, Robert's parents. For, despite the good will on either side, tension soon arises. What else to expect when there is too little space in their Montmartre apartment for four people (then for six then eight, the couple having... two pairs of twins!) ; the continued presence there of Fernand (who loves peace and quiet) after he is driven to retirement ; the difficult beginnings of Robert as a lawyer in a room of the apartment, etc... Other troubles follow and the harried family is on the verge of implosion...
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Midnight... Quai de Bercy
Title: Midnight... Quai de Bercy
Character: La buraliste
Released: May 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Having recently moved into her new apartment, Irène Cazenave, the widow of a well-known police officer, is forced by one of her husband's colleagues to take part in an investigation. The building's provocative concierge has been found murdered. We watch a parade of suspects, only to learn at the end that Irène killed the janitor under blackmail. She kills herself.
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Wonderful Mentality
Title: Wonderful Mentality
Character: Honoré's mother
Released: March 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Honoré, a valet, has an extremely logical mind and is unable to tell a lie. This comes in very fortunate for the family he works for.
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Holiday for Henrietta
Title: Holiday for Henrietta
Character: Charlotte
Released: December 17, 1952
Type: Movie
Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with sentimental love for a young photographer on Bastille Day. The other has a more thrilling and dastardly fate in mind for her. Among the film's irresistible conceits is Hildegarde Neff as an oversexed circus bareback rider.
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The Girl with the Whip
Title: The Girl with the Whip
Character: La femme de Borgo
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: Movie
The daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother.
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Drôle de noce
Title: Drôle de noce
Released: September 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Mr and Mrs Barbezat,Concierges are to marry their only daughter to a butcher's boy. Both the in-laws and the groom have an obsession: come what may, they are keen on honoring their engagements: promises are made to be kept is their motto. And when, on the wedding day, the unfortunate parents cannot provide the newly weds with...the "Mérinos" mattress which is part of the bride's Trousseau ,they are desperate. The husband will spend the whole wedding festivities trying to keep his word.
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Bille de clown
Title: Bille de clown
Released: September 5, 1952
Type: Movie
Gaston has always wanted to be a clown, which is not to please his father, a stern notary. The latter is adamant : he will never allow his son to tarnish his reputation. Frustrated Gaston falls in love for a pretty circus rider and draws closer and closer to his vocation. Gaston's father dies but goes on interfering, from heaven this time. Cunning and persistence will finally help Gaston to be the clown he has always dreamed of being.
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Trial at the Vatican
Title: Trial at the Vatican
Released: August 29, 1952
Type: Movie
In 19th-century France, a little girl follows her two sisters into a Carmelite monastery with the goal of becoming a saint.
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Title: The Seven Deadly Sins
Character: The Belgian (segment "Sloth") (uncredited)
Released: March 27, 1952
Type: Movie
A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.
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Trip to America
Title: Trip to America
Character: Mme Tassote
Released: October 31, 1951
Type: Movie
As part of the fascination in post World War II France with American culture, a young French couple here travel to the US to see for themselves the prosperity they have heard about.
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Miracles Only Happen Once
Title: Miracles Only Happen Once
Character: The owner of the restaurant (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1951
Type: Movie
1939 : what a beautiful year for Claudia and Jerôme. No sooner do they meet that they are under each other's spell. 1939 : what a horrible year for the two lovers : war breaks out before they can get married. They meet again after the war but the enchantment has vanished. They decide to marry but it will be for reason, not for love. Miracles only happen once.
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The Inn of Sin
Title: The Inn of Sin
Character: Bouchon
Released: December 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Two murders are committed in an inn for the possession of a bag containing a fortune.
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Night Round
Title: Night Round
Character: Judge's wife
Released: September 9, 1949
Type: Movie
During Christmas night, two police officers make their nocturnal rounds, in their round they meet tramps, brawlers in a café, a naked man, a concierge, a sexton, revelers in a nightclub, and end by signing in their report to the police station.
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Vire-vent
Title: Vire-vent
Released: April 8, 1949
Type: Movie
The Donadieu family lives in the Provençal sun in a happy letting go, The father, the mother, the son and the three daughters. One of them, Claire, falls in love with a mountain dweller, Chapus, whom she marries Chapus, rough and austere, undertakes to educate the Donadieu family. The joy disappears and only returns in the absence of Chapus.
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The Red Signal
Title: The Red Signal
Released: February 4, 1949
Type: Movie
A physician whose wife was killed when two trains collided has remained a tormented soul,In his mind,he can still hear his wife whisper "Stop the train! Stop it!" .
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The Wizard of Heaven
Title: The Wizard of Heaven
Character: Ms Bibost
Released: January 11, 1949
Type: Movie
The Wizard of Heaven tells the compelling and remarkable story of St. John Marie Baptist Vianney, the humble pastor of Ars, France, who battled with the devil himself, not only for the faith of his parish, but even for that of his country. Starting with the Saint's arrival at Ars, this film brings to life the hardships, indifference, ridicule and opposition he encountered, as well as the zeal with which he strove to overcome them.
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Fandango
Title: Fandango
Character: Grandmother
Released: December 3, 1948
Type: Movie
In the Basque Country, two friends, José and François, live a cheerful life. The two sly foxes use their wit to boost the business of an innkeeper they have a connection with. José is in love with Angélica, the innkeeper"s daughter, while François courts petite Annette. José also happens to have a beautiful voice and one day a night club manager hears him and wants to hire him. He will have to choose between Angelica, the inn, his roots... and a singing career in Paris.
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The Eleven O'Clock Woman
Title: The Eleven O'Clock Woman
Released: March 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is committed. SOS begins to investigate...
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Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
Title: Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
Character: The princess
Released: February 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Sherlock Coco, famous detective, tries to thwart the machiavellian plans of the trio of shock. Croquignol, Ribouldingue and Filochard must be extra vigilant, but the profit motive is too strong. As a corollary, the famous pink diamond is also of interest to their legendary enemy, Jo Papillon. But always inventive, they will work out multiple scams and tricks to reach their goals.
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After Love
Title: After Love
Character: A guest at the reception
Released: January 22, 1948
Type: Movie
Betrayed by his wife, a teacher proceeds to have an affair with a young and pretty student. The two women both find themselves expecting a child. The girl dies during childbirth. In a spirit of revenge and to keep his real son, the scorned husband exchanges the babies.
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The Kids Are Leading the Investigation
Title: The Kids Are Leading the Investigation
Character: Madame Lieusaint
Released: June 25, 1947
Type: Movie
When Monsieur Crauqual, the supervisor, is found hanging, all wonder why this rather rich person decided to kill himself. And when a pupil is found hanging too, François and his friends decide to investigate. They are certain there is a killer within the walls of Collège François 1er and determined to prevent him from going on running wild.
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Mystery Tour
Title: Mystery Tour
Character: Madame Marguerite
Released: May 21, 1947
Type: Movie
The basic premise: A retired bus driver fulfills his lifelong dream of providing an extended "voyage surprise" (the title is translated as "Mystery Tour") for unsuspecting vacationers. They soon realize, while riding in the old man's home-made bus, that he hasn't bothered to plan any kind of itinerary. As a result, they end up in completely preposterous situations, of course. Voyage surprise!
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Portrait of a Woman
Title: Portrait of a Woman
Released: January 17, 1944
Type: Movie
A woman disappears after visiting her daughter and realizing her presence was unwelcome by her in-laws. Some time later, a body is found in a nearby lake.
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Manouche
Title: Manouche
Character: Mrs. Mouche, landlady
Released: March 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Pierre can no longer pay for his medical studies and disappears for several months. During his absence, his fiancée allows herself to be courted by a reveler. Back home, Pierre cannot regain the trust of the young woman, who now leads a dissolute life of which she is ashamed. She tries to kill herself. Pierre saves her and heals her.
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Retour au bonheur
Title: Retour au bonheur
Released: April 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Wanting to complete the research of her doctor husband, a former actress returns to the stage and therefore abandons her home. Badly supervised, her little boy runs away. We find him ill in the Alps. He is saved by his father and the parents' union is sealed again.
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Those of the Sky
Title: Those of the Sky
Released: March 5, 1941
Type: Movie
An airplane manufacturer asks his son-in-law to try out the prototypes he builds. This one ends up having an accident because of fatigue, and pushes the sacrifice to help his rival.
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Schubert's Serenade
Title: Schubert's Serenade
Character: La propriétaire
Released: February 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an absence of two years. Based loosely on the life of composer Franz Schubert, the film casts Bernard Lancret as Schubert, Harvey as his dancer sweetheart, and Louis Jouvet as a possessive Baron who has his own designs on our heroine.
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Whirlwind of Paris
Title: Whirlwind of Paris
Character: Concierge
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A gang of broke student musicians travel to Paris to take exams. But very quickly, the lack of money pushes young people to pass themselves off as professionals during the performance. They will then win the victory!
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Fire in the Straw
Title: Fire in the Straw
Released: December 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Antoine Vautier is a failed actor. A director hires Christian, Antoine's son, for a film. He immediately becomes a star. Antoine suffers from it. Christian's second film is a disaster and faced with the collapse of his son, Antoine forgets his jealousy.
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Monsieur Brotonneau
Title: Monsieur Brotonneau
Released: August 4, 1939
Type: Movie
A man leaves his adulterous wife for his secretary, but then the wife apologizes and wants her husband back again.
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The Rules of the Game
Title: The Rules of the Game
Character: Madame de la Bruyère
Released: July 9, 1939
Type: Movie
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
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Immediate Call
Title: Immediate Call
Released: June 15, 1939
Type: Movie
In September 1938, an American diplomat negotiated in London the peace of Munich, rather than rush to Paris where his wife, a famous film actress, is about to fall into the arms of a young first. He gains peace but loses his happiness.
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Cocoanut
Title: Cocoanut
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A small town gentleman learns that his prim and proper wife was once a showgirl, and that, even worse, he had enjoyed a one night stand with her in the Orient.
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Cocoanut
Title: Cocoanut
Character: une invitée
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A small town gentleman learns that his prim and proper wife was once a showgirl, and that, even worse, he had enjoyed a one night stand with her in the Orient.
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Un gosse en or
Title: Un gosse en or
Character: Catherine
Released: February 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Two villagers have adopted a child abandoned on the road. A jealous kid drags him away from the village. He is collected by a traveling circus where his kindness attracts him the affection of all and especially that of the animals. One day he finds his mother and his two adopted fathers.
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Place de la Concorde
Title: Place de la Concorde
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
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La Bête Humaine
Title: La Bête Humaine
Character: Voyager
Released: December 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.
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Conflit
Title: Conflit
Character: La veuve Rabas
Released: December 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Claire Buisson becomes enamored with Gerard and soon afterwords she becomes pregnant. Gerard advises her to abort the child but, at the last moment, Claire decides to keep her child and leaves for her sister's place in the province.
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Three Waltzes
Title: Three Waltzes
Released: December 14, 1938
Type: Movie
"Les Trois Valses" traces the love story of two people over three eras. In the first waltz (music based on Johann Strauss I), Yvonne is a sensitive Parisian ballet dancer, whose romance with a dashing officer is brought to an abrupt end by his family. She goes off to Vienna to become a big star. In the second waltz, her daughter, an even bigger star, but now of Paris music halls, has a brief flirtation with the rakish man-about-town who is the son of suitor number one. She throws him over pretty quickly for a chance to shine at a Gala performance. Finally, in the third waltz, the two get together, when she is a movie star, and he is posing as an insurance salesman.
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La Cité des lumières
Title: La Cité des lumières
Released: December 8, 1938
Type: Movie
The life of two students, Rodolphe and Madeleine. They love each other but he is rich and she has just lost her father and is forced to work in a nightclub. Rodolphe leaves her but quickly understands that he loves her and finds her.
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Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Title: Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Character: La Dame au Café (uncredited)
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
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A Foolish Maiden
Title: A Foolish Maiden
Released: November 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A middle-aged Parisian lawyer meets a young girl and falls in love with her. The girl's mother discovers the affair and the couple must flee.
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Lights of Paris
Title: Lights of Paris
Released: October 5, 1938
Type: Movie
A celebrated singer in Paris meets a young woman and courts her by pretending to be a driving instructor.
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The Little Thing
Title: The Little Thing
Character: La veuve Tribou
Released: May 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Now that their parents are ruined, Jacques Eyssette and his younger brother Daniel, are driven to fend for themselves. Jacques becomes the secretary of a marquis who exploits him by making him work so hard that his health gets damaged. Daniel, on his part, is hired as a supervisor and Latin teacher in a school in the province. It soon happens that he is in a bad situation too as, after being subjected to repeated harassment, he ends up being fired. Daniel then decides to join Jacques in Paris, hoping to embark on a literary career. Unfortunately, Irma Borel, an actress, sets her sight on him and drags him into a life of vice.
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Monsieur Breloque a disparu
Title: Monsieur Breloque a disparu
Released: March 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The brave Monsieur Breloque has a friend, Pierre Martel, a private detective. When the latter asks him to replace him for a while, Breloque, although having no competence in the matter, accepts. He anticipates adventures and misadventures but also happy surprises.
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Trois dans un moulin
Title: Trois dans un moulin
Released: March 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Three university students decide, before they pursue their various careers, to spend some time together living in a mill.A young woman joins them for a while and all three fall in love with her.
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The Time of the Cherries
Title: The Time of the Cherries
Character: Mannered lady
Released: January 26, 1938
Type: Movie
A poor peasant family, a failed cabinet maker and an unemployed worker struggle in contrast to crooked rich businessmen. nearby.A Communist meeting gives young workers hope for a better future.
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Ballerina
Title: Ballerina
Character: Madame Bijou
Released: November 25, 1937
Type: Movie
As its title indicates, La Mort du Cygne (The Dying Swan) is set in the special world of the ballet. Young dance student Janine Charrat idolizes her teacher-role-model Yvette Chauvire, and will do anything to help Chauvire further herself.
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The Citadel of Silence
Title: The Citadel of Silence
Character: The nanny
Released: June 3, 1937
Type: Movie
During the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the governor but it's her lover who is arrested and sent to a sinister fortress : hence the title. To help the prisoner,Vania marries the officer who commands the place. There the convicts have really a bad time, but Vania manages to communicate with her dear captive. But beware of informers.
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Forty Little Mothers
Title: Forty Little Mothers
Character: The seamstress
Released: November 5, 1936
Type: Movie
After finding and adopting a child, a man gets a job at an all-girls school which doesn't allow families. Once the girls find the baby, they become his forty little mothers. At the same time, the child's true mother searches for him.
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They Were Five
Title: They Were Five
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.
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Trois jours de perm'
Title: Trois jours de perm'
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
On one side, a crooked banker, his nephew and his orderly; on the other, the honest friend of the banker and his daughter. Substitution of male and female characters that end with two marriages.
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L'École des journalistes
Title: L'École des journalistes
Released: May 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Fernand Dubreuil wants to be a journalist and agreed to do an interview with promising star Clara Sergy. He's accompanied by the jerk photographer, Alfred.
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The Flame
Title: The Flame
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman of easy virtue rejects a proposal of marriage made to her by a rich lover. But when her son is taken from her to be brought up in the best conditions, she keeps thinking about him. When she finds him, twenty years later, she can not adapt to the environment to which he now belongs.
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Life Is Ours
Title: Life Is Ours
Character: Une bourgeoise dans la rue
Released: April 7, 1936
Type: Movie
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
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The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Title: The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Character: Prostitute (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered somebody in Paris. Lange was an employee in a printing works. His boss was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers... One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. What then made Lange a killer?
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The Fleeing Dead
Title: The Fleeing Dead
Released: January 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Two second-rate, hammy actors, Hector Trignol and Achille Baluchet, come up with a fake murder story to draw attention to themselves. Baluchet is to kill Trignol, who will temporarily disappear then reappear, as if by magic, during the trial. But things don't go according to plan.
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Happy Days
Title: Happy Days
Released: November 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Sylvie, a rich girl, learns at the same time the death and the ruin of her father. Forced to find work in Paris, she is given shelter by a medical student who soon falls for her. Another young man falls in love with her. When her benefactor gets ill and finally dies, Sylvie refuses to give the other man her heart out of faithfulness for the dearly departed. But youth commands and after a time love -but not oblivion - triumphs.
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A Rare Bird
Title: A Rare Bird
Character: Mme Berthier
Released: June 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A wealthy businessman joins his servant, who has won a winter getaway, on the trip, but at the hotel where they stay the servant is mistaken for the master.
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Zouzou
Title: Zouzou
Character: Mme Vallée
Released: December 21, 1934
Type: Movie
Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.
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Jeanne
Title: Jeanne
Character: Mrs. Gageret
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
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Without a Family
Title: Without a Family
Character: Mother Barberin
Released: November 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Rémy (Robert Lynen), a stolen child is adopted by a wandering singer. With him and his trained animals, Rémy travels the roads of France. But his adoptive father dies and Remy, who has knowledge of a boy who knows something of his history, sails for England to find his mother.
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Si j'étais le patron
Title: Si j'étais le patron
Character: Mme Villiers
Released: October 25, 1934
Type: Movie
An intelligent young worker, enterprising but boastful, repeats to all the winds that, if he were the boss, we would see what we would see. One of the main shareholders of the factory takes him at his word for twenty-four hours.
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Trois pour cent
Title: Trois pour cent
Released: February 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Small rentiers do not want their son to marry a young rich girl. They hijack letters and prevent meetings. But love wins. Defeated, the parents accept this union which shocked their petty bourgeois but honest spirit.
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Âme de clown
Title: Âme de clown
Released: October 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Suzette and Jack form a very nice and rather well-matched couple. The latter is the partner of the new clown Teddy who seems to please the young lady a lot.
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The Wedding of Miss Beulemans
Title: The Wedding of Miss Beulemans
Released: December 2, 1932
Type: Movie
The daughter of a Brussels restaurant proprietor prefers the company of a young man from Paris, to that of her compatriots.